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...

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...

Knowledge and attitude about leprosy was evaluated in a sample of 63 volunteer physiotherapy students, from various Nigerian universities using a three-part questionnaire. Attitude scores averaged 54.6±21.0 ranging from 0 to 77.8. Eighty-one percent of the students showed poor attitude, 13% showed fair attitude while only 6% showed good attitude. Knowledge scores averaged 41.0±18.6, ranging fro...

Reports on the influence of fructose on blood alcohol clearance have not always been consistent. Notwithstanding, information concerning the Nigerian population is yet to be documented. In this present study, ten consenting adults in apparent sound health, and who did not have any traceable history of alcohol or drug abuse were selected. The subjects were non-smoking Nigerians with an average a...

BACKGROUND The Roll Back Malaria (RBM) Partnership converged in Abuja in 2000. In 2005, Nigeria adopted artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) as first-line therapy for uncomplicated malaria. It was determined that by 2010, 80% of persons with malaria would be effectively treated. OBJECTIVES To describe household practices for malaria treatment in Benin City; to explore demographic ch...

www.pharmacypractice.org (ISSN: 1886-3655) 100 ABSTRACT Pharmaceutical advertisement of drugs is a means of advocating drug use and their selling but not a substitute for drug formulary to guide physicians in safe prescribing. Objectives: To evaluate drug advertisements in Nigerian and other African medical journals for their adequacy of pharmacological information. Methods: Twenty four issues ...

and traditional methods of contraception has always been shown to be poor among Nigerian adolescents. The 1990 Demographic and Health Survey found that only 11% of sexually active women aged 15–19 ever used any modern contraceptive method. Such rates of contraceptive use are much lower than levels seen in similar age-groups in many Sub-Saharan African countries, or than levels in industrialized...