Conclusion:transactional sex is commoner among female adolescents who were missing classes, had sexual partners, and were emotionally stressed. There is a need for intervention programs to protect the female adolescent, delay sexual debut and improve academic performance among them. Introduction Adolescents...
A flamboyant Islamic reformer and thinker, Muhammadu Sanusi was seen as a defender of the Muslims of the Nigerian North. A supporter of women'seducation, family planning, a critic of polygamy and early marriage, he considered chronic poverty and socio-property inequality incompatible with the lette...
At the first level of analysis, charts and spatial map were used to describe the prevalence of malnutrition. At the second level, multivariate multilevel logistic regression models were fitted to determine the predictors of malnutrition status among 6–59 months of age in Nigeria due to the compl...
The state’s eponymous megacity has put Nigeria on the cultural map with its glitzy Nollywood film scene and global Afrobeats stars like Burna Boy, but nearly half of Nigerians live in poverty and inflation is in double digits. Security challenges awaiting Nigeria’s next leader are huge. A ...
Infect Dis Poverty. 2016;5:61. Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar WHO. Guidelines for malaria, 16 October 2023. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2023. Google Scholar Balla K, Malm K, Njie O, Hounto Ogouyemi A, Uhomoibhi P, Poku-Awuku A, et al. Introducing field ...
The results of polls, of course, do not map precisely onto the demographics of Nigeria’s population as a whole; reported turnout was low, and there were accusations of fraud, although the seriousness of these accusations has been debated. Yet election results are crucial for arriving at some...
It is on this basis that this work sets out to map out the indices of slum and informal housing development in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria. High-resolution satellite data, as well as primary and secondary data, were used in the study. Based on collected data, ArcGIS 10.3.1 software was ...
Although the WHO NTD Roadmap envisaged the potential elimination of schistosomiasis in some countries in the sub-Saharan region by 2020, it is now certain this feat is unachievable by the end of 2020. Conflict might have contributed in part to the non-realisation of control of schistosomiasis ...
some of which include cultural practices (hunting, processing and consumption of rodents as protein source, and drying of food items by the roadside) and poverty12,13,14,15. However, recent studies have reported a probable shift in LF occurrence from rural to main urban or urban slum settings...
October 7, 2022Education Goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030 out of reach, report says The world is unlikely to meet a longstanding goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030, the World Bank has said, citing the effects of “extraordinary” shocks to the global economy, including the coronavir...