Cervical cancer is the second cause of cancer death after breast cancer among Nigerian women till date which is not in developed world due to availability of screening and its high uptake in these regions of the world. Various studies have been carried out across different ethnic and professional groups except among the teachers in high schools which can be classified as elites in the society. ...

The questions of identity, oil exploration and development of social infrastructure resulted in serious security challenges in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. Security problems worsened with the proliferation of ethnic militia groups known in the media as ‘militants,’ ‘hoodlums,’ ‘terrorists,’ ‘thieves,’ etc. In the last five years, armed resistance further degenerated into serious violence,...

Nigerian English is a variety of English which has often been suggested to differ significantly from other varieties of English, especially in the area of prosody. This paper analyses the prosody of Nigerian English and compares it to the prosody of British English and three West African tone languages. Read and semi-spontaneous speech was analysed acoustically. Significant differences were fou...

The study investigates the interaction effect of callous-unemotional (CU) traits and gender on physical aggression among Nigerian adolescents. Two hundred and ninety five (295) senior secondary school students who were between 14-16 years of age participated in the study. These participants included boys (152) and girls (143). They were selected from a public senior secondary school in Anambra ...

BACKGROUND While traditional contraception is widely used, in southern Nigerian modern contraception is a relatively recent phenomenon. Modern contraception is more wide spread among the educated and sexually active youth in Nigeria. Few studies have been done on contraception among educated women in Nigeria. OBJECTIVES This study was carried out in December 2000 to determine factors that inf...

Sickle cell disorder is the most important genetic haematological disease that affects the people of black African descent. About 2% of all babies born to Nigerian parents have sickle cell anaemia (1). The distribution of indigenous sickle cell disorder coincides with the distribution of falciparum malaria. Possession of sickle cell trait confers a natural protection against death from malaria ...

War and Stature: Growing Up During the Nigerian Civil War The Nigerian civil war of 1967-70 was precipitated by secession of the Igbo-dominated southeastern region to create the state of Biafra. It was the first civil war in Africa, the predecessor of many. We investigate the legacies of this war four decades later. Using variation across ethnicity and cohort, we identify significant long run i...