African trypanosomiasis is a vector-borne parasitic disease causing serious risks to the lives of about 60 million people and 48 million cattle globally. Nigerian medicinal plants are known to contain a large variety of chemical structures and some of the plant extracts have been screened for antitrypanosomal activity, in the search for potential new drugs against the illness. We surveyed the l...

This research investigates how the properties of the Nigerian crude residue can be improved on to enhance its local usage. Chemical treatment was carried out on Nigerian crude residue and its rheological properties were tested. The physiochemical propertiesspecific gravity cum viscosity measured after the treatment gave 12.44% improvement in specific gravity and 17.92 times improvement in visco...

This paper discusses political leadership and national security in the Nigerian fourth republic. The paper accentuates that the democratic process itself constitute a functional mechanism for interest articulation and aggregation thereby checking agent threat to national security that may arise from lack of input or participation in the political process. The paper through the use of leadership...

Semen extenders are liquid diluents that buffer sperm cells and preserve their fertilizing potentials. The commercial carbonated drink (CD) as an extender was evaluated on semen characteristics, fertility hatchability in Yoruba ecotype chickens (YECs). fructose of the CD 1.52?0.05 mg/ml. Under conditions 370Celsius, 5% 10% were added to egg yolk citrate solution make 100%. obtained from ten mat...

The antifungal activities of itraconazole, ketoconazole, fluconazole, terbinafine and griseofulvin were tested by broth microdilution methods against 71 isolates of dermatophytes isolated from Nigerian children. Most drugs were very active against all the dermatophytes and the MIC 90 ranged from 0.03 to 8.0 microg/mL. This appears to be the first documented data on the antifungal susceptibility...

This study deals with the conflict of Nigerian Biafran War 6 July, 1960-15 January, 1967 as represented in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‟s novel Half of a Yellow Sun (2006). The study attempts to address the following four questions: first, what are the causes-effects of Biafran/Civil war? Second, why Nigerians have been suffering during the wartime? Third, how does the representation of Nigerian hi...

This study investigated the determinants of dividends policy in the Nigerian stock exchange market. To achieve the objectives of this study, a total of 50 listed firms in the Nigerian stock exchange market were selected and analyzed for the study using the judgmental sampling technique. Also, the corporate annual reports for the period 2006-2011 were used for the study. The paper was basically ...

Aderele, W. I., and Seriki, 0. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 313. Hypertension in Nigerian children. A retrospective review of 138 cases of hypertension in Nigerian children attending the University College Hospital, Ibadan, during a 9-year period was undertaken. The main findings were (a) that hypertension occurs more commonly in children aged 5 to 10 years and is seen in both ...

This paper takes an explorative search into merger activity in the Nigerian banking industry and its impact in the sustenance of shareholder value via sound corporate governance structure. An attempt is made to draw lessons from United States experience in merger activity in the Nigerian banking industry which has as at the time of study recorded twenty -five (25) successful mergers arising fro...