The Nigeria-Biafra War att racted enormous international att ention not just for the brutal events of the period, but also because of how the confl ict was interpreted, especially by foreigners. The ghastly images of victims of the war dominated the international media and roused the world’s conscience. The confl ict took a toll on human lives on both the Igbo and the ethnic minorities in Biafr...

OBJECTIVE Leprosy or Hansen's disease is an infectious disease affecting skin and peripheral nerves. The World Health Organization (WHO) Recent Report reveals Africa as having 20,599 new cases, America 36, 178, Eastern Asia 166,445, Western pacific 5,400; totally up to 232,875 new cases. Nigeria as at 2012 had 3,805 new cases. Nerve dysfunction can lead to severe impairments, such as wounds, cl...

Adequate and accurate models of thermal power plants (TPP) hydropower (HPP) are great importance for the optimal economic functioning electric systems. The extracted have a direct impact on dispatch calculations. In this research, modified optimization algorithm called an improved gradient-based optimizer (IGBO) is deployed extraction TPP HPP input-output parameters. Firstly, IGBO tested use wi...

It is well known that albinos undergo operations when they suffer from sunlight induced cancers. Not so well known is that some of them undergo such operations several times. Does this represent a “recurrent variant”? A histopathology data pool established at a Reference Laboratory serving the Igbo ethnic group in Nigeria was searched for a 30-year period in respect of the number of operations ...

Background: The neurofibroma has been defined as a fibroma composed of “nervous and connective tissue” and held to have been first used in 1892. Moreover, an illustrated book without a figure defined it alike. Furthermore, a weighty tome also explained this similarly. Hence, what are the epidemiological features? The answer is based on a UK group that considered the use of a histopathology data...

This study was carried out to determine the current prevalence of urinary schistosomiasis in relation to epidemiological factors in two communities in Ile Oluji/Oke Igbo Local Government Area (LGA) of Ondo state. A total of 760 individuals comprising 356 males and 404 females were examined and of the number examined, 126(16.6%) were infected with S. haematobium. Oke Igbo community had more infe...

A total of 286 individuals from 3 selected communities (Areedi-Aje, Ipakodo/Ojokodo, and Ijebu-Igbo) of Ijebu-North, southwestern Nigeria were examined for Loa loa microfilaremia using finger prick blood smear, between December 2008 and March 2009. Rapid assessment procedure for loiasis (RAPLOA) was used to obtain information, from 187 Ijebu-Igbo residents, on adverse reactions experienced from...