The legume pod borer, Maruca vitrata, is an endemic insect pest that causes significant yield loss to the cowpea crop in West Africa. The application of population genetic tools is important in the management of insect pests but such data on M. vitrata is lacking. We applied a set of six microsatellite markers to assess the population structure of M. vitrata collected at five sites from Burkina...

The management of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) in Nigeria and most developing countries has remained a major public health challenge, thus creating the need for reliable and environmentally-acceptable alternatives. This study focuses on composting assessment as a viable recovery alternative for MSW in six States of Southwest Nigeria, namely: Ekiti, Osun, Ondo, Ogun, Oyo, and Lagos. Extensive lit...

nigeria represents one of the paradoxes of development in which case the nation is rich but her people are poor. this study examines the rate of poverty among rural households in south western, nigeria. a random multistage sampling was employed for the study. ekiti and osun states were randomly selected from the six states in south-western nigeria. this was followed by random selection of two l...

Our focus in this research work is to present an efficient algorithm for apt prediction of cancer of the kidney in which medical practitioners and patients could gain valuable knowledge for early and proactive intervention strategies to save lives from this harmful disease. To achieve these objectives, dataset pertaining to patients of cancer of the kidney were acquired from selected private an...

Nigeria is a large West African country, more than 900 000 km more than 900 000 km 2 2 in area – nearly in area – nearly four times the size of the UK. Despite four times the size of the UK. Despite having a population of about 117 million having a population of about 117 million people, 42% of whom live in cities, Nigeria people, 42% of whom live in cities, Nigeria has about half the populatio...

UNLABELLED Obesity continues to be an epidemic worldwide. There also continues to be a relationship between obesity and hypertension both causal and consequentially. The study aims at determining the prevalence and pattern of overweight and obesity among our patients being managed for essential hypertension. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was a cross sectional study. Consecutive patients diag...

Received Jan 2, 2015 Revised Feb 10, 2015 Accepted Mar 23, 2015 The sunshine hours and solar radiation data for Ibadan (7° 30 ́ N, 3° 54 ́ E.), South West Nigeria in the last twenty years was analyzed, with a view to determining the abundance of solar energy available for deployment of solar photovoltaic (PV) technology applications. The measured solar radiation and actual sunshine hour data were...

INTRODUCTION Erectile dysfunction (ED) is currently one of the most common sexual dysfunctions worldwide but it is usually underestimated because it is not a life threatening condition. The associated stigma makes men who have it to suffer in silence. This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of erectile dysfunction and the possible associated risk factors among Nigerian men. METHO...

Abstract Education policy change is intended to improve the education system. The Technical and Vocational Training (TVET) as adopted by federal ministry of in Nigeria structured on three major goals believed ameliorate economic challenges. accomplishment these however, depends effectiveness its implementation strategies. This study therefore investigated administrative instructional teachers’ ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the etiology and epidemiologic characteristics of sudden death at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Teaching Hospital, South West Nigeria. METHODS This was a retrospective descriptive study of all cases of natural unexpected death, either occurring out of hospital or less than 24 hours after admission to LAUTECH Teaching H...