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‘Woman, but not Human’: Widowhood Practices and Human Rights Violations in Nigeria
(International Journal of Law, Policy and the Family, 2013-05)
This article examines the implications of widowhood practices for the enjoyment of women’s fundamental rights and freedoms in Nigeria. The article discusses the effects of socio-cultural and legal structures of Nigeria for ...
Impact of the Boko Haram Insurgency on the Child's Right to Education in Nigeria
(Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2016)
This paper is focused on the impact of the Boko Haram insurgency in Nigeria on the child's right to education. The article concludes by assessing how the Nigerian government has lived up to its obligations under international ...
The child's right to basic education in Nigeria: a commentary on the decision in SERAP v Nigeria
(African Journal of International and Comparative Law, 2018)
The right to education is not justiciable in Nigeria by virtue of it being included in Chapter II of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as amended) (CFRN 1999) as a directive principle of state policy. ...
A multi-centre evaluation of oral cancer in Southern and Western Nigeria: an African oral pathology research consortium initiative
(African Field Epidemiology Network, 2017)
INTRODUCTION: Oral cancer is a leading cause of cancer deaths among African populations. Lack of standard cancer registries and under-reporting
has inaccurately depicted its magnitude in Nigeria. Development of multi-centre ...
Manpower capacity and reasons for staff shortage in primary health care maternity centres in Nigeria: A mixed-methods study
(BCM, 2019)
The heart-breaking maternal and neonatal health indicators in Nigeria are not improving despite
previous interventions, such as ‘Health for all’ and ‘Millennium Development Goals. The unattained health-related
goals/targets ...
Beyond entrepreneurship education: Business incubation and entrepreneurial capabilities
(Emerald, 2017)
As a way of dealing with Nigeria’s macroeconomic challenge of unemployment and its
concomitant socio-economic problems, the federal government, in 2006, made entrepreneurship study a
compulsory course for all higher ...
Impact of climate change and anthropogenic activities on renewable coastal resources and biodiversity in Nigeria
(Academic Journals, 2012)
Climates related disaster is greatly human induced warming, leading to substantial fluctuations in earth temperature which is currently a global issue of environmental concern. Human proximity and pressure in and around ...
Epidemiological analysis of spatially misaligned data: a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus outbreak in Nigeria
(Cambridge University Press, 2013)
This research is focused on the epidemiological analysis of the transmission of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus outbreak in Nigeria. The data included 145 outbreaks together with the locations of ...
Blood pressure gradients and cardiovascular risk factors in urban and rural populations in Abia State South Eastern Nigeria using the WHO STEPwise approach
(Public Library of Science, 2013)
Background: Developing countries of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face a double burden of non-communicable diseases (NCDs)
and communicable diseases. As high blood pressure (BP) is a common global cardiovascular (CV) disorder ...
Causal implication of oil production on carbon emission and economic growth in Nigeria
(Opole University, 2016)
The paper investigated the causality among carbon emission, oil production and economic growth in
Nigeria’s time series data for the period 1970 to 2013. It estimated an autoregressive distributed lag model and used
granger ...