The editorial on infertility and Women’s Reproductive Health in Africa1 in the African Journal of Reproductive Health Vol. 3. No. 1 (May) 1999 refers. The importance of the issues raised are becoming more and more relevant in our experience practicing ophthalmology in Warri town the major urban centre in mid-west Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Amongst other things, the article pointed out that ...

BACKGROUND Domestic accidental deaths constitute a public health burden in the Niger Delta Region of Nigeria. This study is aimed at highlighting this public health burden. OBJECTIVE This is study is aimed at highlighting this public health burden. DESIGN A six year retrospective study using mortuary records. SETTING University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Port Harcout, Nigeria. ...

INTRODUCTION Overweight and obesity are global public health problems because of their effect on individuals, families and communities. The objective of this study was to describe the profile of overweight and obesity amongst adult out patients in Uyo in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. METHOD This was a cross-sectional descriptive study done between October 2011 and March 2012. Using a sys...

Background: The Expanded Program on Immunization was launched in Nigeria in 1980 but the target for immunization coverage has been elusive. As part of its social responsibilities the Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) supported immunization activities in the Niger Delta region of the country. In this study a cross sectional study was carried out to estimate the coverage of BCG, OPV, DPT...

In the oil-rich Niger Delta, hydrocarbon pollution and oil spillages, gas flaring and sundry anthropogenic activities constitute sources of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), with food contamination playing a major role in human exposure. In this study we assessed PAH levels in wild and cultivated edible mushroom species consumed by the general population from the oil producing Niger Delt...

The coastal zone, with their vast resources of food, energy, and minerals, not only are composed of various fragile ecosystems, but are scenes of a variety of often conflicting uses. At present, the uncontrolled development of the coastal zone and the almost haphazard exploitation of their natural resources threaten to turn the promise of economic prosperity into an environmental nightmare that...

This paper is the first attempt to quantify the levels and the distribution pattern of lindane in the surface water, sediment and fish (Chrysichthys furcatus and Tilapia zilli). The samples were collected from three stations (Ovwian, Ekakpamre, and Ovu) of the Warri River in the western Niger Delta of Nigeria in 2006: during the dry (January-April) and wet seasons (May-August). The analysis inc...

The cross plotting of rock properties for fluid and lithology discrimination was carried out in a Niger Delta oil field using well data from a given oil field. The data used for the analysis consist of suites of six wells. The reservoir was evaluated using gamma ray logs, volume of shale, resistivity and neutron porosity for well-02 and well-06. Sand lithology showed low gamma ray, high resisti...

In a previous study, we have shown that spectroscopic models based on visible and nearinfrared (vis-NIR) spectroscopy (350–2500 nm) predicts polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in tropical rainforest soils with reasonable accuracy. In this study, we used these models to develop soil maps of PAHs and total toxicity equivalent soil concentrations (TTEC) of the PAH mixture. We used the soil ma...

The study focused on effect of capacity building programme of development agencies on well being of beneficiaries in Niger Delta Nigeria. Data was collected with the aid of structured questionnaire from 271 randomly selected participants involved in capacity building programmes in Niger Delta area of Nigeria. Data were analysed using mean scores and Z test statistics. Findings revealed that bef...