Low profit from most staple food production in Nigeria, have continued to discourage the teaming unemployed Nigerian youth taking up farming as a business. Therefore, this study analyzes cost and economic returns Ebonyi State rice production. This made used of simple random sampling techniques select 242 farmers. The employed use structured questionnaire its primary data collection. collected w...

BACKGROUND Reports from the developed nations reveal respiratory tract infections as the leading cause of childhood hospital admissions. Children may be admitted for a variety of respiratory illnesses. Data on the spectrum of pediatric respiratory illnesses admitted in the hospital is scarce. AIM To determine the pattern of pediatrics respiratory illness admissions, seasonal frequency, underl...

Background: Maternal mortality in sub‐Saharan Africa has remained high and this is a reflection of the poor quality of maternal services. Aim: To determine the causes, trends, and level of maternal mortality rate in Abakaliki, Ebonyi. Materials and Methods: This was a review of the records of all maternal deaths related to pregnancy over a ten‐year period, that is, January 1999 to December 2008...

Nigeria reported highest incidence of dracunculiasis in the world 1991 (WHO 1991). Ebonyi, a small state south-eastern part country was rated most endemic with total 3,370 cases 1996 alone (Global 2000 & Ojodu 2001). In 2005, World Health Organisation proclaimed that disease eradicated from Ebonyi and indeed, Nigeria, declared guinea worm free. This study examined bionomics Cyclops sampled ...

This study determines the age at menarche and menstrual pattern of an Igbo population in 12 randomly selected rural communities of Ebonyi State. Information on recalled ages at menarche, menstrual flow duration and cycle length was collected using a semi structured questionnaire over three months. 1209 women of reproductive age were interviewed. The mean age at menarche was 15.0 years and this ...

Theoretically, ownership of property connotes among other things, ‘‘the right to use, perhaps abuse save in so far as no damage or harm is caused the adjoining owners land neighborhood”. [1] Ownership further exclusive possession and unfettered alienate, develop transfer such it when desired. This poser supports maxim cuiusestsolum, eiusestusqueadcoelum et ad inferos It arises with respect a gi...

BACKGROUND Children of leprosy patients deserve social services such as free education, health care services including HIV/AIDS prevention like others. The extent to which these children benefit from such services is not clear. One expects that since they are exposed to health hazards in settlements that they would benefit immensely from preventive health care and other services. Study investig...