the main purpose of this paper is to investigate the performance of nigerian insurance companies using data envelopment analysis (dea). because of the unavailability of the required data, the study is limited to ten nigerian insurance companies for the period of five years from 2008 to 2012. the input employed were commission expenses and management expenses, while premium and investment income...

INTRODUCTION Physical activity among university students is a catalyst for habitual physical activity in adulthood. Physical activity has many health benefits besides the improvement in academic performance. The present study assessed the predictors of physical activity among Nigerian university students using the Social Ecological Model (SEM). METHODS This cross-sectional study recruited fir...

Genetic association studies can be used to identify factors that may contribute to disparities in disease evident across different racial and ethnic populations. However, such studies may not account for potential confounding if study populations are genetically heterogeneous. Racial and ethnic classifications have been used as proxies for genetic relatedness. We investigated genetic admixture ...

The aim of this study is to document the mean head circumference; nasal height; nasal w idth and nasal index of adult Ijaws of Nigeria and to provide a comprehensive data for use by anthropologists and medical practitioners. Craniofacial anthropometry is vital in making a precise and systematic measurement of human skull. A total of one thousand (1000) adults comprising 500 males and 500 female...

War Termination theory emerged in the new millennium as a supplement to existing war theories. In past, focus of scholars was on causes and consequences war. Little or no attention given termination, ceasefire agreements, duration wars, stability peace. With this theory, it becomes very easy subject termination theoretical explication. This article reviews using Nigerian civil argue that Biafra...

The prevalence of liver cirrhosis in 133 Romanians as obtained from a published necropsy series was compared with the biopsy pattern seen among 138 Nigerians of the Igbo ethnic group. It was found that the Romanian peak age group of 5059 years was 2 decades older than the Nigerian peak of 30-39 years. It is argued that, although one series was from necropsies and the other from biopsies, their ...

Factors which are known to be associated with cerebral atherosclerosis were evaluated in Nigerian Africans. Of 465 autopsied adult Nigerians, 62 (13%) had cerebral atherosclerosis. The frequency and severity of atherosclerosis among Nigerians with hypertension, particularly male subjects, were higher than in normotensives. Although there was a similar frequency of hypertension among autopsied N...

In seeking for more effective ways of fertility control and improvement of maternal and child health through birth spacing in a predominantly patrilineal society like Nigeria, this study explores how the sex of a previous child affects birth interval among ethnic groups, controlling for demographic and socioeconomic variables. The study utilized birth history data from the 2008 Nigeria Demograp...