nigeria has had several housing programmes and policies geared towards the provision of housing her citizens since colonial era to the post-colonial period. the nigerian government had always been directly involved in the provision of housing for the public servants and with the advent of the public-private partnership initiative, the low-income public servants’ acceptability of this new housin...

J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2006: 32(4) Nigeria has 2% of the world’s population, but 10% of the global burden of maternal deaths – a statistic that is described by Nigeria’s president Olusegun Obasanjo as “unacceptable and must be reversed”. In January 2006, Nigeria took an important step towards reversing this tragic situation when the Nigerian National Agency for Food and Drug Administrat...

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National Drug Policy (NDP) constitutes the specification of mid-term and long-term pharmaceutical objectives by the government and the determination of major strategies warranted to achieve such objectives. Stated in other words, NDP determines the frameworks for the pharmaceutical activities of private and state sectors. The specification of these policies and strategies will be an effective m...

Much research on developing countries highlights the developmental potential associated with ICTs as a rationale for implementing particular information systems. However, such initiatives are often problematic to realize and difficult to sustain. In this paper we examine the promise of development associated with the introduction of an Electronic Voters’ Registration (EVR) system in Nigeria. We...

Background Following the tenets of world polity and innovation diffusion theories, I focus on the coercive and mimetic forces that influence the diffusion of mental health policy across nations. International organizations’ mandates influence government behavior. Dependency on external resources, namely foreign aid, also affects governments’ formulation of national policy. And finally, mounting...

National Drug Policy (NDP) constitutes the specification of mid-term and long-term pharmaceutical objectives by the government and the determination of major strategies warranted to achieve such objectives. Stated in other words, NDP determines the frameworks for the pharmaceutical activities of private and state sectors. The specification of these policies and strategies will be an effective m...

This research work is to bring to light, the danger posed by Cyber Crime in the world generally and Nigeria in particular with the hope that policy makers will work with the recommendations and practical combating framework design of this research work. In order to achieve this, the following approaches were adopted; survey of some common Cybercrime in Nigeria with the frequency of occurrence a...

Wild poliovirus isolation from a Nigerian child with acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) seeking medical care in Singapore ♦ On 19 May 2006, wild poliovirus was isolated by the Singapore National Polio Reference Laboratory from a Nigerian child seeking medical care in Singapore. ♦ The Singaporean government took steps to avert a public health threat. ♦ No additional cases were detected and Singapore ...