The Nigerian Shari’a crisis, with its layered and complicated processes, reveals contending perspectives, thoughts, and debates on governance and politics in contemporary Nigerian society. Significantly, this complex process is contested among Northern Nigerian Muslims themselves —not to mention the fierce contestations between Northern Nigerian Muslims and Northern non-Muslims, confrontations ...

The Nigerian judicial process is unacceptably slow and expensive. We established that efforts so far taken to expedite the judicial process which include front loading processes and opening up of more courts are more tactical than strategic. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has the strategic capability to expedite the judicial process when properly introduced and effectively manag...

Abstract In 2016 the UK held a divisive referendum on its membership of European Union. aftermath, difference and division were rife in politics everyday life. This article explores how such play out through interaction examining citizen ‘picking fight’ with politician over Brexit has been handled. Drawing categorisation analysis we show antagonism is interactionally accomplished. The focuses t...

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Containment limited the 2014 Nigerian Ebola virus (EBOV) disease outbreak to 20 reported cases and 8 fatalities. We present here clinical data and contact information for at least 19 case patients, and full-length EBOV genome sequences for 12 of the 20. The detailed contact data permits nearly complete reconstruction of the transmission tree for the outbreak. The EBOV genomic data are consisten...

Serum glutamic oxalacetic transaminase (G-OT), glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (G-PT), and isocitric dehydrogenase (ICD) have been estimated in six groups of subjects, namely, normal British adults, normal Nigerian adults, undernourished Nigerian adults and children, Nigerian children with florid protein malnutrition (kwashiorkor), and cases of protein malnutrition after treatment. The normal ran...