African art music is a genre by composers who have had the knowledge of western European music. It is often written in Western notation and performed to an enlightened listening audience that is excluded from the performance. ...
Deficit financing (DF) is the excess of government expenditure over its revenue. The DF occasioned by low domestic savings and low capital formation (CF), have characterised the Nigerian economy since the 1970s with attendant ...
Reported cases of environmental lead exposure and its effects on the health of humans and livestock are on the increase globally. Lead affects many biological systems leading to death if it is beyond acceptable limits. ...
Diaspora’s reputation as an agent of homeland development through remittances has gained
unprecedented traction since the turn of the 21st century. The African Union’s declaration of
the diaspora as Africa’s sixth region ...
Standard Precautions (SPs) are a set of infection control measures formulated to ensure health workers and patients’ safety against infections in health care facilities. However, available data indicated poor compliance ...
Task Performance (TP), the proficiency with which Library Personnel (LP) performs their core functions (acquisition, cataloguing and classification, preservation, storage and retrieval of information materials), requires ...
Pigs are omnivores which possess two sets of teeth, the deciduous and permanent teeth. Patterns of
dental eruptions have been deployed in age estimation, while variations in dental eruption reflect the
influence of ...
Deracination, forced migration from one locality to the other, and trauma: the attendant psychological consequences of such movement have been recurrent issues in Francophone Caribbean literature. Previous studies on ...
Processors add value to agricultural produce to compete favourably in open markets and derive
maximum benefits. Value Addition (VA) towards enhancing derivable benefits in locally produced
rice is particularly important ...
Inorganic corrosion inhibitors are frequently used in protecting metals from acidic solutions often employed in industrial processes. However, their applications have been limited by high cost of production and toxicity.Thus, ...
Petroleum resources production is always based on fiscal regimes, to allocate
responsibilities and benefits between parties in contracts. However, clear-cut Nigerian
petroleum fiscal regimes only exist for crude oil ...
Rotaviruses are leading causes of acute viral gastroenteritis in humans and animals worldwide. The disease causes substantial economic loss to the poultry industry due to decreased weight gain, increased production costs ...
Decay and hollows in stems of Living Trees (LT) are responsible for some tree failures which
may lead to loss of lives and damage to property, especially during stormy weather. This
possible disaster and attendant ...
In Nigeria, demand for tomato exceeds its domestic supply and only about 50 percent of
total production reaches the market due to postharvest loss. This causes scarcity, price
inflation and importation of tomato products. ...
Community development is a global adopted concept for improving the quality of life of
residents in a locality. Several reports have identified education as the most important
component of this approach as it ensures ...
Energy and Time efficiencies are important factors to lumber production in sawmills. General inefficiencies, such as energy waste and idle time jeopardise sustainability of the sawmill industry. For effective evaluation ...
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 ...
Achievement of no poverty and zero hunger of the Sustainable Development Goals is hinged on implementation of development interventions. The MicroVeg project which synergises fertiliser microdosing with indigenous vegetable ...
The average international tourists arrival per thousand populations for the period 2000 to 2009 was 7 in Nigeria compared to 22 in Ghana. The major sources of these receipts were business tourists from France, United Kingdom ...