AIM To assess the emotional effects of malocclusion among Nigerian orthodontic patients. DESIGN A questionnaire survey. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A questionnaire was completed by 221 Nigerian orthodontic patients undergoing routine orthodontic care at the Orthodontic Unit, Department of Preventive Dentistry, University College Hospital, Ibadan and the Department of Child Dental Health, Lagos Uni...

Credit financing deficit is one of the problems militating against performance agriculture in Nigeria. Against this background, government Nigeria introduced agricultural credit guarantee scheme fund (ACGSF) 1977 to encourage banks increase and sustain lending agriculture. Unfortunately, has not achieved desired results. Hence, study seeks evaluate thresholds ACGSF on between 1981 2019. The was...

BACKGROUND:There is no comprehension data on anatomicalindices of Nigerian goats. OBJECTIVES: To show osteometricvalues of some cranial indices in Nigerian goats. METHODS:Sixty (60) goat skulls that were found around Makurdi, Kwande,Katsina-ala and the neighbouring Adamawa state of Nigeria,were studied by investigating the 30 craniometric values.RESULTS: The measured distance from the facial tu...

This research looked at how internal and external sources of financing affected the Nigerian economic growth from 1981 to 2020. Using sourced data Statistical Bulletin Central Bank Nigeria, domestic savings debt were measures for financial sources, foreign direct investment real GDP was used as measure growth. An Error Correction Mechanism analyze data. The findings showed that have a negative ...

earlier linguistic studies of political discourse revealed that, not many works exist on pragmatic analysis of impoliteness in this genre. apart from mullany (2002), who employs relational and face works to analyses impoliteness in political discourse, taiwo (2007), adetunji (2009), and ademilokun (2015), who employ discourse analytical tools in analyzing the political speeches, there exist ver...

The benefit of international trade had not been noticed in the economic growth Nigeria because some goods imported into country were those that can cause damage to local industries by rendering their products inferior and being neglected, thereby reducing rate output such which later spread aggregate economy. work investigated extent impacted global development with particular reference Nigeria...

Doctors and clients sometimes experience interactive clashes during hospital meetings in South-western Nigerian hospitals because of their divergent culture-constrained orientation to politeness cues. The goal of this paper is to unpack the discursive elements that characterize interactive confluence and divergence in selected consultative encounters in the hospitals. The findings indicate that...

This study examined Nigerian inflationary trends and drivers from 1985 through 2021(37years). The explored how Money Supply (MS), Dollar Exchange Rate (DEXCHR), Government Expenditure (GEXP), National Debt (NDT) affect Nigeria's Inflation (INFLR). Autoregressive distributed lag model showed mixed integration in aggregate secondary data a CBN Statistical Bulletin. model's multicollinearity heter...

An efficient banking system is important for wealth creation, job and trade facilitation, as it provides a way individuals businesses to participate in their local global economy, thus facilitating economic growth development. The purpose of this study examine the effectiveness using data envelopment analysis (DEA) measuring efficiency Nigerian with program. A critical review selected peer-revi...