The security situation in Nigeria has become enormous and embarrassing to government. To tackle insecurity, it is imperative to investigate and identify its sources and causes. This paper isolated and clarified different causes and sources of insecurity in Nigeria. The paper equally suggested two strategic security management approaches that can accommodate both long term and immediate solution...

“Ms. A,” a 23-year-old single female with borderline personality disorder, came to her therapist’s office and reported an embarrassing episode in which she had shouted at a clerk in a retail store because he would not accept her credit card as payment for the merchandise she wished to buy. She noted that everyone was staring at her when she shouted, and she felt that she had made a spectacle of...

Edentulous orofacial dyskinesia is a rare condition, characterized by involuntary rhythmic movements of the mandible and presents an embarrassing situation for the patient. Edentulism has been considered as one of the proponents of these irregular movements, and rehabilitation of these patients with complete denture-fabrication using traditional technique restores the masticatory inefficiency a...

June last, we showed that the classes had, during the last ten years, undergone a very remarkable development. The increase has been more rapid and embarrassing in the Bengali class than in the English; the numbers in the one case having, during the period in question, undergone nearly a five-fold increase, and in the other, rather less than a three-fold. The Military or Hindustani class has no...

Associations between criminal activity and the use of psychotropic substances are well established. Flunitrazepam, specifically, has been suspected of triggering, per se, violent criminal behavior and severe memory disturbances in the form of anterograde amnesia. However, data from investigations of this relationship are scarce and have been primarily derived from forensic institutions, where t...

There seems to be a genetic predisposition to primary (essential) hyperhidrosis and it often manifests itself in childhood or puberty. Essential or focal hyperhidrosis characteristically does not occur during sleep, but is made worse by heat and emotional situations, as it is considered that the hypothalamic sweat centers are more sensitive to emotional stimuli in nonhyperhidrotic subjects. 2 H...

Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychological disorders in younger patients, affecting 6% to 20% of developed countries children and adolescents (Walkup et al. 2008). Separation anxiety is the only anxiety disorder restricted to infancy, childhood, or adolescence (APA, 2000). Separation anxiety disorder (SAD) is defined by developmentally inappropriate, excessive, persistent, and un...

STARTLE is a basic alerting reaction common to all mammals. A rapid reflex not amenable to voluntary control, startle was studied extensively by Strauss in 1929,1 and is the subject of a 1939 monograph by Landis and Hunt2 and of a more recent study by Gogan.3 In the human adult, except for minor interpersonal variations, a stereotyped motor pattern is seen consisting of eye blinking; facial gri...

Any academic pathologist will sooner or later be confronted with the need to use human tissues for quality control purposes or for research projects or else with the demand for human tissue samples for research projects of external researchers. Over the last 10 years, the use of human tissues for such non-diagnostic purposes has been the subject of extensive debate and wide-reaching regulations...

An interstitial cell tumour of the testis produces a characteristic clinical picture. Starting between the ages of 2 and 6 years, the boy develops macrogenitosomia praecox with a raised excretion of urinary 17-ketosteroids. The tumour, which is usually unilateral and non-malignant, may not be obvious initially. Occasionally there is gynaecomastia. Penile erections are frequent. The behaviour ra...