This paper examined the factors and actors that coalesced to engender disinterest in establishment sustenance of manufacturing industries Gombe State, North East geopolitical zone Nigeria. The study adopted a historical method anchored on oral interviews with sixty (60) local manufacturers, government officials across eleven areas state. Secondary sources forms published books, journal articles...

Background: Nigeria has few neurosurgeons and her population little or no access to neurosurgical services. Neurosurgical care become the vital components of tertiary health delivery. Within last three (3), we have pioneered services in our centre though with lack materials manpower. Our objectives was recount previous experiences challenges. Methods: A retrospective observational study all in-...

Several cultures of north-central Nigeria do not use community cemeteries. Instead, human remains are buried in and around family compounds, often in shallow and sometimes unmarked graves. At several locations, graves and drinking water wells end up too close to be presumed environmentally safe. This paper reports findings of a pilot study that explored the potential for groundwater contaminati...

Background: A prospective study of all patients admitted to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), with a provisional diagnosis of carcinoma of the urinary bladder in the six year period between January, 2001 and December, 2006. The object of this investigation was to determine the relationship between schistosomiasis and carcinoma of the urinary bladder in Maiduguri, North East ...