Although a major section of pregnant women in Nigeria are immune to rubella infection, cases of congenital rubella syndrome are still been seen in hospitals. Rubella is not a reportable disease in Nigeria and data of its epidemiology are extremely rare. In this study, we estimate the burden of acute rubella virus infection among pregnant women during their first trimester in Makurdi-Benue State...

Nigeria is rich in land, people, oil and natural gas and other resources needed to bring about her development. Inspite of these abundant resources, majority of the people are still wallowing in poverty. The problem of governance readily comes to mind as Nigeria needs not remain at the present level of under development, at this stage of her national life. Therefore, lack of good governance has...

The recently introduced cashless economy with the cash-lite banking by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has engineered most Nigeria banks to introduce e-payment and e-transact solutions to support the policy. However, one of the major problems limiting the growth of this new move in Nigeria is the absence of secure and reliable e-payment systems. The problems associated with the implementation...

The paper attempts a synthesis of problems relating to municipal waste management in Nigeria and proposes a conceptual knowledge management approach for tackling municipal waste problems in cities across Nigeria. The application of knowledge management approach and strategy is crucial for inculcating a change of attitude towards improving the management of waste. The paper is a review of existi...

As of 2014 in Nigeria, the HIV prevalence rate among adults ages 15-49 was 3.17 per cent. Nigeria has the second-largest number of people living with HIV, as 9% of all people living with HIV globally are in Nigeria, 14% of the global deaths from HIVrelated illness are in Nigeria [1] and with a population of about 170 million and despite the recent drop in HIV prevalence to 4.4%, about 3.8-4.0 m...

This study, Democracy and Good Governance in Nigeria: Challenges and Prospects is a descriptive analysis that has relied on the use of secondary data as its source of information. The basic purpose of this study is to x-ray the relationship between good governance and democracy and to identify those factors that militate against good governance in Nigeria. The study highlights that after the re...

Agricultural risks constitute a fundamental challenge in Nigeria, hence the importance of agricultural insurance in managing farm risks cannot be underestimated. As the crop sub-sector contributes about 85% of the agricultural GDP in Nigeria, this study focussed on awareness and factors that can enhance the adoption of crop insurance among crop farmers in Nigeria. Data collected from 310 random...

Background Despite the implementation of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) since 2005 in Nigeria, the level of health insurance coverage remains low. The study aims to examine the predictors of enrolment in the NHIS among women of reproductive age in Nigeria.   Methods Secondary data from the 2013 Nigeria Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) were utilized to ex...

Globalization is a worldwide phenomenon. The concept globalization is a very recent term only establishing its current meaning in the 1970s, which emerged from the intersection of four inter related sets of communities of practice, academics, journalists, publishers. This paper models the channels through which globalization affects financial sector development in Nigeria. To this end this stud...

The book appraised in this edition of Chronicles of Medical History, History of Dentistry in Nigeria, is a product of many years of painstaking research. The Author, Professor Eyitope Ogunbodede, has put together an excellent book that is a great work of art. Dentistry is one of the first specialties in medicine with a very long history; evidence of periodontal disease has been traced back to a...