In Nigeria, sex workers by nature of their job are exposed to high risks and multiple
health hazards including mental health. However, little is known about their mental
health challenges and consequences on the sex ...
Medicines or drugs are used to improve the health of patients by relieving symptoms and curing
diseases. However, drugs may produce adverse effects when not taken according to prescriptions
by pharmacists. Adverse Drugs ...
Nanofluid flooding in the petroleum industry has generated growing interest because of its
potential to greatly improve oil recovery. However, studies have reported that injection of
nanofluid could lead to impaired ...
Adulteration of petroleum products with the resultant safety, health, environmental and economic
impact on the end-users is a challenge in Nigeria and many developing countries. The current
commonly used techniques by ...
Generalised Multivariate Regression Estimators (GMREs) with multi-auxiliary
quantitative variables in multi-phase sampling have been used over time to estimate
the population mean. These estimators are structurally complex ...
Economic recession has become a global and reccurring phenomenon which poses
worrisome uncertainties on assets’ returns in financial markets. Various stochastic
models have been formulated in response to price instability ...
The dynamics of the stock market indices log-returns (∆(lnS~t)) have been characterised by non-normal features such as upward and downward jumps of different
measures, asymmetric and leptokurtic features. The Bi-Power ...
The concept of stability in differential equations is of immense importance particularly for determination of properties of solutions of nonlinear equations which
cannot be readily solved to obtain closed analytic solutions. ...
Diabetes and oxidative stress are responsible for an upsurge in the number of
neuropathies, retinopathy, nephropathy, cancer, cardiovascular dysfunction and
mortality world-wide. Traditionally, Calophyllum inophyllum and ...
Ecotourism is a major source of revenue and provides additional income for supporting livelihoods
in many countries. Understanding local communities‘ perceptions and tourists‘ attitudes are
essential for the growth, ...
Social competence, the ability of a person to handle social interaction effectively, is
important for the academic success of library and information science postgraduate
students. However, there are records of low level ...
Depressive symptoms characterised by a mild and non-clinical mental health disorder, is
detrimental to the well-being of human beings. Reports have shown that menopausal rural
farmers in Ibadan less city exhibited ...
Sexual decision-making is a major challenge among adolescents globally. Reports have
shown that adolescents in Nigeria, including Bayelsa State, encounter numerous lifethreatening adverse effects due to lack of sexual ...
The Good Samaritan’s Parable (TGSP), in Luke’s Gospel, was Jesus’ wordcraft to a
Jewish lawyer who deliberately tested Him on the conditions required to inherit eternal
kingdom and to be a true neighbour. Existing studies ...
Sexuality, a concept which expresses different sexual and gender-related activities and
features, manifests in the dominion mandate (Gen 1: 26- 28) and the Yoruba socio-cultural
milieu. Previous studies on the dominion ...
Focus refers to the part of a clause which provides the most relevant or salient
information in a given discourse situation, while interrogatives are conventionally
associated with the act of requesting information. ...
Language accommodation, a phenomenon in urban sociolinguistics, is the conscious
and conscientious use of other languages’ repertoire in communication. Existing
works on urban sociolinguistics, particularly in the Nigerian ...
The involvement of the private sector in the provision of university education is a global
phenomenon. Previous studies on private universities in Nigeria have focused largely on the
pedagogy and policies, with little ...
The establishment of prisons in colonial Western Nigeria was a social measure to curb criminality.
Scholarly works exist on the prisons system in postcolonial Nigeria, but less on the colonial period.
This study was, ...
The Arogbo-Ijo and Apoi are sub-groups of Ijo of the Niger Delta, located in the Western
Delta region of Ondo State, Nigeria. Existing studies on the Arogbo-Ijo and Apoi have
focused largely on issues of origins, economic ...