Arising from the menace of city logistics problems in Lagos State with reference, in particular, to the Apapa and Tin Can Island seaport axis, the federal and state governments, in collaboration with private investors, seek to establish and/or develo...
Calabar is a city in which 65 per cent of people live in poverty in informal settlements that have low and decreasing access to improved water. In the low-income informal areas of the city, residents are being made responsible for securing their own...
Population abundance and density estimates play important roles in biodiversity conservation assessment and can lead to prioritization of conservation efforts, strategies, and management. The Calabar angwantibo (Arctocebus calabarensis) is a poorly s...
This paper adopts a multisemiotic perspective to examine the significations of monuments in city spaces in Calabar, Nigeria. Data were generated through photo documentation, participant observation and semi-structured interviews in a three-year field...
Rainfall intensity–duration–frequency (IDF) relationships are crucial in the design and management of hydraulic structures. At the core of the assumption for IDF development is that the statistics of past rainfall events will represent fu...
The demand for purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) has attracted significant attention over the last decade, particularly in developing countries, due to the inability of higher education institutions (HEIs) to provide adequate hostels for the...
The purpose of investigating livelihood strategies is to seek patterns that can be acted upon in order to improve livelihood prospects. This paper assesses household livelihood strategies and their determinates by asking (1) how urban households mana...
Introduction: Co-infection has become a major contributor to increased burden of morbidity and mortality in HIV infection. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of asymptomatic malaria in the HIV-infected subjects on antimalarial prophyl...
The importation of prefabricated buildings into colonies was a prevalent practice during the British colonial expansionist venture. However, in post-colonial Nigeria today, many of these prefabricated houses have either been largely modified or have...
Language embodies traditions, values, and collective identity, bridging gaps between generations and geographies. Maintaining consistent language policies at home and in communities remains challenging, with research showing that only a few families...
Traditional namesake practices are indisputable naming conventions among the Bende people, through which old names are maintained without infiltrating the community with new ones. It is believed that, when a person who had lived earlier on, had led a...
Among the Anaañ people in Akwa Ibom State, Southeastern Nigeria, the practice of naming serves as a central mechanism for communicating personal identity, recollecting memory and preserving social hierarchy across generations. The act of namin...
Names and naming practices convey various nuances of meaning in the Bette sociocultural setting. Against this significant backdrop, this study examines proverbial names as figurative and overt communicative strategies among the Bette people of northe...
Earlier studies on Bekwarra names have focused on cultural and syntactic perspectives, with limited attention to how the Bekwarra naming culture transmits family history and serves as a cultural archive in which the experiences, struggles, and social...
Personal naming traditions in Bekwarra communities of Cross River State serve as vital cultural repositories encoding memory, identity, and collective experience. While names have historically reflected lineage, spirituality, and communal values, con...
Background: Ultrasound is operator-dependent, and its value and efficacy in fetal morphology assessment in a low-resource setting is poorly understood. We assessed the value and efficacy of fetal morphology ultrasound assessment in a Nigerian setting...
The research was conducted to assess the pace of sediment loss in deserted 3-, 5- and 10-year-fallow traditional farmlands, as well as cultivated farmlands, in a remote forested zone in southern Nigeria. During the 2012 rainy and cropping season, fie...
Background: Paracetamol overdose/abuse as a result of self-medication is a common occurrence amongst people living in low/middle income countries. The present study was designed to investigate the hypolipidemic and cardioprotective potentials of Vern...
African anthroponyms are a rich repository of the socio-cultural materials of ethnolinguistic groups. They reveal speakers’ collective beliefs, norms, traditions, practices, philosophies and worldview. Among other things, literature on Igbo per...
This study articulates how naming and family trees can become epic texts upon which intended or unintended meanings, identities and narratives can be decoded, including mutations in families, as basic units of society. Many studies in African anthrop...
Some African societies use personal names as a means of conveying their cultural values, traditions, and experiences. Personal names are therefore an important means of identifying their bearers. However, in recent times, it has been observed that th...
This article examines the ethnopragmatic significance of religiously based personal names among the Agwagune people of Biase in Cross River State, Nigeria. Insights from a socio-onomastic framework are used to account for the situational, socioreligi...
The objective of this study was to evaluate the MBJ20® transcutaneous bilirubinonometer by Beijing M&B Electronic Instrument Co. Ltd. (Beijing, China) in the assessment of severity of neonatal jaundice. Two hundred and twenty-two paired samples f...
Introduction: After the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, a hand full of cases and deaths have been recorded globally, Nigeria inclusive. Methods: A retrospective analysis of the COVID-19 weekly disease update report by the Nige...
This paper aims to estimate and rank the performance of sub-nationals in terms of their quality of growth using an index of inequality elasticity of poverty. The study puts forward a scenario matrix to hypothesize the four qualities of growth accordi...
The continuous demand for uninterrupted super-fast wireless communication services can only be fulfilled by transmitting electromagnetic waves at high frequencies. This study investigates the impacts of atmospheric visibility on Free Space Optical (F...
This study focuses on developing a climate-flood model to investigate and interpret the relationship and impact of climate on runoff/flooding at a sub-regional scale using multiple linear regression (MLR) with 30 years of hydro-climatic data for the...
Delineating soil management zones in cocoa cultivation areas can help optimize production and minimize ecological and environmental risks. This research assessed the spatial distribution of heavy metal concentration and soil fertility indicators in C...
The crown conveys a rich tapestry of history and deep cultural resonances among the Yoruba people of South-western Nigeria, beyond its representation as an emblem of leadership, royalty, and nobility. This article explores layers of the meaning of cr...
Investigation into understanding the genesis of brines in southeast Nigeria was carried out utilizing high-resolution potential field (HRPF) data. This study reveals that igneous intrusions and associated hydrothermal fluids are responsible for brine...
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Can Afro-communitarianism serve as a viable ideology for addressing the human interaction challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic? The ongoing pandemic poses many challenges to the normal functioning of societies around the world. For example, it ha...
The rate of landcover change linked to deforestation and forest degradation in tropical environments has continued to surge despite a series of forest governance policy instruments over the years. These informed the launch of one of the most importan...
Monkey kola is a common name given to the edible wild relatives of the West African kolanut. These are neglected and underutilized indigenous tropical fruit species growing in the West and Central African forests. Knowledge of the nutrient and antinu...
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The continuous emergence of multidrug resistant pathogens is a major global health concern. Although antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have shown promise as a possible means of combatting multidrug resistant strains without readily engendering resistance...
Sickle cell disorder (SCD) is a multisystem disease with heterogeneous phenotypes. Although all patients have the mutated hemoglobin (Hb) in the SS phenotype, the severity and frequency of complications are variable. When exposed to low oxygen tensio...
Understanding the interplay between infections and severe acute malnutrition is critical in attaining good clinical outcomes when managing malnourished children. However, review studies describing the profile of the associated pathogens in the malnou...
This paper examines personal names derived from traditional religious beliefs and practices among the Erei people in Biase Local Government Area of Cross River State in South-South, Nigeria while utilising insights from the multidisciplinary inferenc...
An earlier anti-hyperglycemic study with serial crude extracts of Phaleria macrocarpa (PM) fruit indicated methanol extract (ME) as the most effective. In the present investigation, the methanol extract was further fractionated to obtain chloroform (...
This study examines, from an ethnopragmatic perspective, how the Efik people in Akpabuyo Local Government Area, Cross River State, Southern Nigeria, use lullabies to transmit language, indigenous values, cultural wisdom, and meaning. The study explor...
Salinity episodes that are common in arid regions, characterized by dryland, are adversely affecting crop production worldwide. This study evaluated the effectiveness of brassinolide (BL) in ameliorating salinity stress imposed on soybean at four lev...
This study involves the use of high-resolution airborne magnetic data to evaluate the thicknesses of sedimentary series in the Bornu Basin, Northeast Nigeria, using three depth approximation techniques (source parameter imaging, standard Euler deconv...
This paper investigates the asymptotic eventual stability (AE-S) for nonlinear impulsive Caputo fractional differential equations (ICFDEs) with fixed impulse moments, employing auxiliary Lyapunov functions (ALF) which are specifically constructed as...
An interaction of water-methanol solution of sodium1,4-benzenediacetate (bda) and 4,4′-bipyridylethelene (bpee) with aqueous solution of Zn(NO3)2·6H2O at room temperature yielded colourless crystals of 1 after three weeks in a sealed glass tube. The...
This work investigates a broad class of impulsive fractional dynamic equations with delay and nonlocal initial conditions on arbitrary time scales. Our framework combines several important aspects that are often studied separately, including Caputo f...
Female-child naming represents a unique naming practice among women; yet, there are no current studies examining the interconnectedness between naming female children and gendering among married Bette-Obudu women. This study fills this gap in additio...
There have been several incidences of flood recently, which are believed to be aggravated by increased climatic variables as a result of perceived changes in climatic conditions (due to climate change) in the Cross River Basin. The basin is the most...
Biliary tract cancer (BTC) is characterised by poor prognosis and low overall survival in patients. This is generally due to minimal understanding of its pathogenesis, late diagnosis and limited therapeutics in preventing or treating BTC patients. No...
Higher-resolution wall-to-wall carbon monitoring in tropical Africa across a range of woodland types is necessary in reducing uncertainty in the global carbon budget and improving accounting for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degrad...
Aside the monkey pox and Lassa fever endemicity currently going on in Nigeria, coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has joined the queue [...]
The paper explores how the diasporic Igbo community portrays its cultural identity through personal names and naming practices in a globalised context. The study employs a qualitative approach, involving computer-assisted semi-structured interviews w...
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