Tolulope Olayemi Oyekale Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria ABSTRACT Poverty reduction is the goal of all rural development programs embarked upon by Nigerian government. This is important because poverty is a critical problem in Nigeria and the rural areas are mostly affected. This study examined the impact of government programs on the multidimensional poverty of ...

Languages employ different strategies to transmit structural and grammatical information. While, for example, grammatical dependency relationships in sentences are mainly conveyed by the ordering of the words for languages like Mandarin Chinese, or Vietnamese, the word ordering is much less restricted for languages such as Inupiatun or Quechua, as these languages (also) use the internal structu...

background: vitamin c levels are low in pregnancy. the purpose of this study was to determine serum vitamins c levels among pregnant women attending antenatal care at a general hospital in dawakin kudu, kano, and this can help further research to determine the place of vitamin c supplementation in pregnancy. methods: this was a prospective study of 400 pregnant women who presented for antenatal...

1Department of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia 2Department of Veterinary Pathology and Microbiology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia 3Department of Veterinary Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria 4Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Maiduguri, Nigeria 5Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Maiduguri...

Background Poor maternal and child health indicators have been reported in Nigeria since the 1990s. Many health system interventions have been instituted to reverse the trend and ensure that Nigeria is on track to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This systematic review aims to describe the Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (MNCH) interventions that have been implemented in Nigeria sin...

Nigeria is known to be endemic to Buruli ulcer, but epidemiological data are remarkably rare. Here, we present a large cohort of 127 PCR-confirmed M. ulcerans infection patients coming from Nigeria and treated in a neighbouring country, Benin. Severe lesions and delay of consultation are factors that should encourage establishment of a treatment centre in South Western Nigeria.

Introduction Influenza is viral illness that affects mainly the nose, throat, bronchi and occasionally, the lungs. Influenza viruses have been an under-appreciated contributor to morbidity and mortality in Nigeria. They are a substantial contributor to respiratory disease burden in Nigeria and other developing countries. Nigeria started influenza sentinel surveillance in 2008 to inform disease ...

the study was carried out to assess the implication of the use of selected information and communication technologies (icts) for extension service delivery in nigeria. the simple random technique was used to select fifty percent of the total extension agents which equivalent to forty-two respondents as sample size for the study. frequency counts, percentages, mean and standard deviation were us...

over the years, there has been an obvious pollution problem in lagos area, nigeria with high population of over eleven million and the near absence of waste management infrastructures. concentrations of some pollution parameters and trace elements (temperature, ph, salinity, so42-, no3-, po43-, f-, do, bod, cod and coliform, cr, co, ni, ag, cd and pb) were determined from water bodies of isolo ...

Temperature is an important factor determining the abundance, distribution and diversity of termite species. Thus, termites are affected by changing climate have to adopt different means surviving in order avoid extinction. Using occurrence data, bioclimatic variables vegetation cover, we modelled predicted current future habitat suitability for mound-building Nigeria. Of 19 index (NDVI) tested...