International air travel has already spread Ebola virus disease (EVD) to major cities as part of the unprecedented epidemic that started in Guinea in December 2013. An infected airline passenger arrived in Nigeria on July 20, 2014 and caused an outbreak in Lagos and then Port Harcourt. After a total of 20 reported cases, including 8 deaths, Nigeria was declared EVD free on October 20, 2014. We ...

Federalism often arises from the desire of peoples to form a union without necessarily losing their identities. In Nigeria, an attempt cultivate common national identity met with serious obstacles separatist agitations in Nigerian history. light this, paper examines causes Nigeria its formative years as British Colony and Protectorate proffers solutions for stemming drift toward disintegration....

Leprosy is a major public health problem in Nigeria. The National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme (NTBLCP) was established in 1 989 and formally launched in 1 99 1 when we commenced nationwide implementation of MDT. The LEC programme in Nigeria is shown in Figure 1 . In 1 989, Nigeria had about 200,000 registered leprosy cases. l Since then, the leprosy situation in Nigeria has impro...

Conflict and insecurity has become major social problems constraining the socio-economic political progress of multi-ethnic society like Nigeria. prevention peace building a global challenge. Education been described as an instrument for conflict in contemporary efforts world. This paper draws attention to possible ways preventing using Community Based Peace (CBPE) programme Youths Adults The f...

The red-capped mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus) is a partially-terrestrial monkey that occurs from the coastal forests from western Nigeria into southern Cameroon, and within the course of Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni), and Gabon and the GabonCongo border on the Atlantic shore. Its southern restriction is south of the Ogooue River in Gabon. There had been unconfirmed opinions of its occurrence in...

Lion fecal DNA extracts from four individuals each from Yankari Game Reserve and Kainji-Lake National Park (central northeast and west Nigeria, respectively) were Sanger-sequenced for the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene. The sequences were aligned against 61 lion reference sequences from other parts of Africa and India. The sequence data were analyzed further for the construction of phylogeneti...

shah ismail established a dynasty in iran on the premises of nationality and religion. to establish national unity in iran, he announced shia as the official religion. his goal was to strengthen iranian national bonds. the presence of uzbeks in the east and ottomans in the west made it necessary that iranian people reinforce their feeling of patriotism and love for they homeland. shah ismail be...