various studies on the national policy on education (npe) have concentrated on the cognitive value of pedagogy and learning of the language aspect but few have viewed its importance on the togetherness of the nation - nigeria. this paper deals with how the language policy can influence and ensure the co-existence of nigeria in achieving self-actualisation, national unity, social, cultural, econ...

This study aims to integrate sustainability into the thinking and teaching of architecture in Nigerian tertiary institutions from an abstract manner to a concrete one by modifying present educational approach and practice as well as developing a road map for its implementation. This paper reveals that sustainability in architecture is multidimensional and requires the ability to critically anal...

Objective: In this study, we investigated the reason for the continuous cooperate agitations concerning the state of the educational system in Nigeria despite the unflinching efforts of policy makers to establishing better educational policies as they have been time and again formulated, reformulated and implemented; and at other times, replaced with others purported to be better with huge amou...

INTRODUCTION Road traffic injuries (RTIs) and attendant fatalities on Nigerian roads have been on an increasing trend over the past three decades. Mortality from RTIs in Nigeria is estimated to be 162 deaths/100,000 population. This study aims to compare and identify best prehospital trauma care practices in Nigeria and some other African countries where prehospital services operate. METHODS ...

The Nigerian rice sector has made remarkable improvement in the last decade as production has increased significantly thereby reducing the gap between domestic supply and demand. In the last three decades, rice imports make up greater proportion of Nigerian imports as rice forms a structural component of the Nigerian diet. Past government inconsistent policies were not successful in securing go...

BACKGROUND In Nigeria, several challenges have been reported within the health sector, especially in training, funding, employment, and deployment of the health workforce. We aimed to review recent health workforce crises in the Nigerian health sector to identify key underlying causes and provide recommendations toward preventing and/or managing potential future crises in Nigeria. METHODS We ...

This study examines, empirically, the influence of household structure on labor market participation in Nigeria. The study made use of the data collected by the defunct National Manpower Board in 2005 in the Nigerian Labor Market Survey conducted that year. The study establishes the relative importance of the household structure in influencing labor force participation of household members whil...

banks play important roles in promoting national development. in order to provide efficient services and to perform their statutory roles effectively, banks are required to comply with established standards. in nigeria, the statement of accounting standards (sas), companies and allied matters act (cama) and the central bank of nigeria’s directives and regulations provide guidelines to banks in ...

This study examined the extent to which Nigerian national dailies cover traditional medicine practice in Nigeria. Content analysis was used for the study. The data were derived from a sample of 416 issues of four purposively selected Nigerian newspapers: Daily Trust, New Nigerian, The Guardian, and The Punch, from a population of 2,920 issues covering the period between 2005 and 2006. Analysis ...

As Africa’s demographic giant, Nigeria plays a key role in African migrations, but has surprisingly been ignored in the migration and development literature. Beyond the issue of trafficking, few empirical studies on Nigerian migration are available. With a few exceptions (Nwajiuba, 2005; Osili, 2004), studies on the development implications of Nigerian international migration are particularly r...