62 Optimal Transportation and Spatial Integration of Regional Palm Oil Markets in Nigeria L.O.E. Nwauwa, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria K.O. Adenegan, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria M.A.Y. Rahji, Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, U...

O.A. Osiyemi, H.K. Adesokan, S.I.B. Cadmus, E.O. Ajaiyeoba, O.A. Itiola Department of Pharmacognosy, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. Department of Veterinary Public Health & Preventive Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria Department of Forest Conservation & Protection, Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria, P.M.B. 5054 Dugbe, Ibadan, Nigeria Department of Pharmaceutics & Indu...

1 Biochemistry Department, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, Nigeria; 2 Biochemistry Department, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria; 3 Anatomy Department, Faculty of Basic Medical Sciences, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso, Ogbomoso, Nigeria; 4 Veterinary Microbiology and Parasitology Department, Facul...

The article focuses on an historical relationship between the political institution of chieftaincy and civic pride in Ibadan, a Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria. It examines this relationship against the scholarly model of `Yoruba urbanism' and argues that this model is empirically and conceptually ̄awed. Drawing on oral and documentary historical sources, the article explores how a `civic Ib...

BACKGROUND Although there are now many neurosurgical units in Nigeria, cases of head injury (HI) continue to present in the University College Hospital, UCH, Ibadan, from hospitals all over the country. OBJECTIVE This report aims to highlight the contemporary patterns of referrals of cases of head injury for neurosurgery in Ibadan. METHOD The study emanated from an analysis of registry of c...

The levels of maximum power density of GSM signals in the cities of Lagos, Ibadan and Abuja were studied. Measurements were made with a calibrated hand held spectrum analyzer 200m away from 271 base stations, at 1.2m to the ground level. The maximum GSM 900 signal power density was 139.63μW/m in Lagos, 162.49μW/m in Ibadan and 5411.26μW/m in Abuja. Also, the maximum GSM 1800 signal power densit...

BACKGROUND There are striking global inequities in our knowledge of the incidence, aetiology, and outcome of psychotic disorders. For example, only around 10% of research on incidence of psychotic disorders originates in low- and middle-income countries. We established INTREPID I to develop, implement, and evaluate, in sites in India (Chengalpet), Nigeria (Ibadan), and Trinidad (Tunapuna-Piarco...

1 Department of Biological Sciences, College of Sciences, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. 2 Department of Botany, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. 3 Department of Physiology, University of Ibadan, Nigeria., 4 Department of Biochemistry, College of Medicine, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. 5 Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, N...

Between 2002 and 2007, more than 1000 chickens from commercial farms, live bird markets and backyard farms in Nigeria and Niger were tested for the presence of the infectious bronchitis virus (IBV) genome. Phylogenetic analysis of full-length sequences of the spike 1 (S1) gene revealed a new genotype of IBV that we refer to as 'IBADAN'. The minimum genetic distance to the closest 'non-IBADAN' s...

IN AFRICAN POLITICAL STUDIES By Richard L. Sklar University of California, Los Angeles This keynote address was presented at an international conference on “Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa,” at the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, July 19-21, 2001, and published in Olufemi Vaughan, ed., Indigenous Political Structures and Governance in Africa (Ibadan, Nigeria: Sef...