Excessive hunting and the possible extinction of wildlife have led to conservation policies globally. In Nigeria, Old Oyo National Park (OONP) is one of the wildlife conservation areas designated by the Federal Government. ...
Land grabbing entails acquisition of more than 200 hectares from an indigenous population irrespective of payment or compensation. It is a global phenomenon usually executed by commercial enterprises. In Nigeria, Public ...
Globally, land conflict occasioned by inequitable land distribution and use has occurred with differing social contexts and impacts on community development. In Nigeria, land conflict is a common occurrence within and among ...
Recent economic and political transformations in Africa and the rising influence of China in
global affairs have led to increasing migration of Africans to Chinese cities. Scholars have
examined issues such as migration ...
Online shopping is a growing global transactional relations, which connects sellers and buyers through the aid of information and communication technology. Since about 2005, online transactions have gained popular acceptance ...
Unplanned urban growth is one of the major challenges in developing countries. The literature on
urban growth has focused more on horizontal growth, without a corresponding emphasis on
vertical growth. Even within the ...
Fiscal Discipline (FD) is the ability of government to efficiently maintain smooth and long-term financial operations in relation to total revenue, financial balance, public debt and total spending. The growing fiscal ...
Households experiencing health shocks (HS-death and disability) are at the risk of incurring
substantial health expenditure as they seek treatment and experience loss of productive work
hours, earnings, and declines ...
There has been large scale migration of health professionals from Nigeria to other countries with estimated 40,000 emigrants between 1975 and 1984 and over 90,000 in 2000. However, the patterns of movement and the associated ...
Splash erosion leads to the remover of top soil particles and nutrients needed for plant growth. There are many factors that can affect splash erosion including slope, soil surface cover, soil properties and rainfall ...
In Nigeria, secondary forests of different types are increasing in area, and becoming increasingly important for species diversity conservation and soil fertility regeneration. Previous studies on the dynamics of soil and ...
Tropical Rainforest (RF) and forest reserves are commonly converted to Oil-Palm (OP) and Rubber Plantations (RP). Variations in soil properties have been studied under different land uses, but studies on the impact of ...
Maternal health seeking behaviour is influenced by availability and access to health-care facilities. Previous studies on maternal health-seeking behaviour have focused on the effects of the cost of services, accessibiity, ...
The factors responsible for the growing disaffection and public outcry against increasing urban land, housing and rental values in Nigeria have been a contentious issue in the literature. The dominant position identified ...
Few studies carried out on physiologic climatology (a study of average physio-thermal conditions of a place at a specific time) of the tropics emphasised variations in thermal conditions of tropical Africa. There is no ...
Liberalisation policy has influenced global air transport significantly. In Africa, the liberalisation of the air transport sector, through the Yamoussoukro agreement; was signed in 1988. The liberalisation process was ...
Household movement in cities has attracted research interest especially in developed countries. Interest in residential mobility has focused on housing affordability, increased externalities, dissatisfaction with present ...
Fuelwood, also known as firewood is unprocessed woody biomass and a major energy source in Nigeria. Research on fuelwood extraction has largely focused on its consequences for deforestation and climate change, while studies ...
The pattern of rainfall anomalies have been largely neglected in the literature on climatology in Nigeria in spite of their significance to agriculture. This study examined the pattern of rainfall anomalies in Nigeria with ...
The spatial distribution of Primary Health-Care (PHC) facilities in Nigeria does not meet the World Health Organisation (WHO) distance threshold bench mark. This has consequently affected accessibility and utilisation of ...