This study examined the development of urban gullies in a part of Southwestern Nigeria. This was done with a view to determine the volume and amount of sediment loss from the 1 and 2 order gullies in a cascade system. Twenty (20) towns were randomly selected from where thirty (30) gully systems comprising forty (40) 1 order and five (5) 2 order gullies were measured with Tape and Total Station ...

Article Type : Full Length Research Article There are variations in the distribution of secretors and non-secretors in relation to ABO blood group which influence disease susceptibility from one region to another. In Nigeria, there are no reports on the proportion of secretors and nonsecretors among the Yoruba people of Southwestern region. This study was carried out to determine the secretor s...

Hospital meal carts are used to deliver meals, drugs and some other materials to patients in the hospital environment. These carts which are moved manually by operators, the health workers, mostly do not comply with ergonomics guidelines and physical requirements of the equipment users in terms of anthropometry data of the region thus increasing the risk of musculoskeletal disorder among...

The red-capped mangabey (Cercocebus torquatus) is a partially-terrestrial monkey that occurs from the coastal forests from western Nigeria into southern Cameroon, and within the course of Equatorial Guinea (Rio Muni), and Gabon and the GabonCongo border on the Atlantic shore. Its southern restriction is south of the Ogooue River in Gabon. There had been unconfirmed opinions of its occurrence in...

BACKGROUND The reasons for low utilisation of maternal health services in settings where the user-fee removal policy has been implemented continue to generate scholarly debates. Evidence of whether user-fee removal benefits the poor women in underserved settings is scanty and inconsistent. This article examines use of maternal health care services in the context of free maternal healthcare and ...

with advanced TB may occur, given the endemic nature of TB in humans in Nigeria (10). TB cases caused by EAI strains have been found in humans in southwestern Nigeria (4; S.I. Cadmus et al., unpub. data), a fi nding that supports zoonotic transmission of this organism from humans to goats. However, different lineages of M. tuberculosis may vary in host range, and EAI genotype strains may be ada...

Background: Diagnosis of anemia is challenging in resource-poor settings due to inadequate laboratory resources. This study assessed the validity of the Tallquist haemoglobinometer in assessing anemia among pregnant women in Osogbo, Southwestern Nigeria.   Methods: This was a cross -   sectional study, in which 200 pregnant women of reproductive age were selected using multist...

In recent years, Nigeria witnessed significant labour migration coupled with reduction in rural agricultural productivity. Youths abandoned farms for ventures with high returns and less drudgery in cities thus labour availability in peak agricultural seasons became scarce. The declining farm population constituting mostly women and old men are not capable of producing sufficient food for the no...