INTRODUCTION Endobronchial metallic foreign bodies are serious injuries best treated by rigid bronchoscopy as quickly as possible to avoid life threatening respiratory sequelae. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 13-year-old male Nigerian child of the tangale ethnic group who aspirated a metallic foreign body, highlighting the "difficulties" encountered in managing this patient. CONC...

Genetically, every individual is unique; this may stem from inheritance, geographical locations, and/or environmental interactions. This study examined the possibility of developing a cheap and easy-to-use marker that can distinguish among the three ethnic groups in Nigeria using RAPD-PCR. Five RAPD primers, OPA1-3 and OPC1-2, were randomly selected and used to amplify DNA samples isolated from...

This paper examined the manifestations of ethnic cleavage and identity on party formation proliferation in Nigeria’s political landscape. Nigeria is unarguably a country with multi-ethnic nationalities each group intermingling another tussle for power. From independence until Fourth Republic, nation’s social structure terms heterogeneity has significantly influenced electoral politics. raises g...

This working note describes the system we used while participating in RusProfiling PAN 2017 shared task. The objective of the task is to identify the gender trait of the author from the author’s text written in the Russian Language. Taking this as a binary text classification problem, we have experimented to develop a representation scheme for target classes (called class vectors) from the text...

This article draws on Pierre Bourdieu’s critical sociology to explore the socio-political processes through which social resources or capital are sought and ethnic inequalities negotiated, legitimated enforced in a postcolonial work context. Applying Bourdieusian analysis data from interviews vignettes Nigerian banking sector, constructs ‘ethnicised identity’ ‘symbolic developed show how employ...