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...

Crude palm oil is most worlds widely used oil, due to its nutritional and economic advantages. The proximate physicochemical properties of fifty samples from local mills in Southern Nigeria were analyzed determine their applicability as food industrial usage applying standard procedures. obtained results were: Moisture content (1.51 2.46%), ash (0.30 0.50%), crude lipids (68.82 to76.77%), prote...