BACKGROUND A mental health advantage has been observed among adolescents in urban areas. This prospective study tests whether cultural integration measured by cross-cultural friendships explains a mental health advantage for adolescents. METHODS A prospective cohort of adolescents was recruited from 51 secondary schools in 10 London boroughs. Cultural identity was assessed by friendship choic...

One of the contentious issues affecting national integration in Nigeria is ethnic politics. An ethnicity a potent tool for mobilizing access to power and resources Nigeria. It has not only affected nation-building but also constituted security governance challenges threatening integration. Despite different measures adopted foster unity among groups, primordial sentiments pervade political syst...

This paper examines, through interview and tape recordings the perceptions of patients with oral cancers from two Nigerian ethnic groups as regard the causes and treatment of cancer. 50% of the participants from the Yoruba ethnic group attributed the cause of cancer to ‘hands of others’ explaining that they were harmed by supernatural forces (evil spirits and ancestral spirits) while 72% of pat...

This paper attempts to review the effects of language diversities in learning biology, restricted its boundaries Nigeria’s ethnic languages, research objectives such as investigating blend a typical Nigerian biology classroom, ascertaining pupils' preferences for their preferred teaching, assessing disparity between academic performance when English compared Indigenous languages. The reviewed s...

BACKGROUND Nutritional research in sub-Saharan Africa has primarily focused on under-nutrition. However, there is evidence of an ongoing nutritional transition in these settings. This study aimed to examine the geographic variation of overweight and obesity prevalence at the state-level among women in Nigeria, while accounting for individual-level risk factors. METHODS The analysis was based ...

INTRODUCTION Sirenomelia, also known as mermaid syndrome, is a very rare fatal congenital abnormality in which the legs are fused together, giving them the appearance of a mermaid's tail. It is commonly associated with abnormal kidney development, genital and rectal abnormalities. A handful of cases have been reported in other parts of the world, however, no cases have previously been reported ...

Asian multinational companies (MNCs) have an emerging history of operations in Nigeria, presenting dilemmas in the development process. Specifically, MNCs have continued their cultural, economic and political hegemony in less developed countries (LDCs). This paper examines the prospects of transfer and crosstransfer of selected managerial philosophies and the enabled employment practices betwee...