Aims: To evaluate the phytochemical constituents and antioxidant properties of two selected mushrooms in Ibadan, Nigeria.
 Study Design: An experimental descriptive study was conducted using fruit bodies Ganoderma lucidum collected from Botanical garden University Ibadan Pleurotus pulmonarius which bought a local store Ibadan. Successive extraction done on with four solvents increasing pol...

Urban violence is on the increase in Nigeria and a significant population of those involved are motor-park touts. Several factors which include drug misuse antisocial personality disorder has been implicated escalating levels violent behaviour. However, empirical finding linking drug-use, anti-social behaviour behaviours among touts scarce. This study examined role local alcohol cocktail misuse...

Research & Development in Material Science An Overview of the Reduction-Smelting Process Iron Oxides Modern-Day Ironmaking Technology Joseph Ogbezode1,2*, Olusegun Ajide1, Olusoji Ofi1 and Oluleke Oluwole1 1Department Mechanical Engineering, University Ibadan, Nigeria 2Department Edo State Uzairue, *Corresponding author: Ogbezode, Department Submission: August 10, 2022;Published: 23, 2022 DOI: ...

IMMUNIZATION? – A PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION AND ACTION RESEARCH N Akwataghibe,* E Ogunsola, O Popoola, A Emeji, M Dieleman. Royal Tropical Institute, The Netherlands; Athena Institute, Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Primary Health Care Development Board (PHCDB) Ogun State, Nigeria; Department of Community Medicine, University College Hospital, Unive...

Little is known about the incidence or pattern of congenital heart disease in tropical Africa, except for the description of 15 cases found among 4220 newborn children in Ibadan, Nigeria (Gupta and Antia, 1967), and a report of 44 patients who attended a paediatric cardiology clinic in Kampala, Uganda (Caddell and Connor, 1966). The purpose of this paper is to describe the cases of congenital h...

A five-year follow-up of the patients initially included in the International Pilot Study of Schizophrenia was conducted in eight of the nine centres. Adequate information was obtained for 807 patients, representing 76% of the initial cohort. Clinical and social outcomes were significantly better for patients in Agra and Ibadan than for those in the centres in developed countries. In Cali, only...

Groundwater is the main source of water for domestic use in Nigeria because it is perceived to be clean. The presence of geogenic contaminants (arsenic and fluoride), and the level of awareness of their presence in groundwater in Ibadan, Nigeria was examined in this study. A total of one hundred and twenty groundwater samples were collected from hand dug wells which tap into shallow aquifers an...

I remember that the Cardiothoracic Unit of the UCH Ibadan ably led by Professor Grillo in his heyday presented their experience with open heart surgery at the Surgical Grand Round of our department in Paul Hendrickse Lecture Theatre in December 1978. Their story, quite rightly, was enthusiastically hailed as a truly momentous surgical milestone and the result of years of concentrated hard work ...

The Ibarapa Programme was founded on February 9, 1963, as the Ibarapa Project, a collaborative and cooperative health development project of the University of Ibadan, the Western Nigeria Government, and the Ibarapa community. The Rockefeller Foundation provided generous seed funding for the project, while the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the London School of Tropical Medicine and H...