The aim paper is to identify and evaluate the main factors affecting the use of maternal health services in Nigeria and factors contributing to Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR).Maternal health is refers to the health of women during pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum period, including family planning and pre-conception care. While maternal ... Read More
Dear Listener, I am from Nigeria, a country in Africa. I am the oldest of foursiblings. I came to America to meet my mum at6 the age of 12, since sheleft me to come to America for a better life so that she can be able toprovide for me. I ... Read More
The impacts of technology On Nigeria and education of the youths Technology is the stairway to every nations accomplishment because it wipes away ignorance from the society. According to Arnold Pacey, an associate Lecturer at the Open University Britain, Technology is the application of organized knowledge to practical tasks by ... Read More
IntroductionExamination malpractice is a threat to the mission of education and anobstruction to the aims and integrity of examinations (Nuss 1984, Fass1986, Davis et al 2009, Davis et al, 2009 Haney et al, 2007 Callahan2007). It has been described as ubiquitous (Pincus et al, 2003),epidemic (Haines et al, 1986) and ... Read More
Sport, Education and Music are the three positive aspects of Nigerian culture that empower the nation. To start with, Sport is one of the factors that backbone the unity of Nigeria, and contributes immensely to the cultural value in Nigeria. Soccer is the well recognized sport in peoples heart, which ... Read More
Groundwater resource from of hand-dug wells and boreholes is the main source of drinking water supply to the people in southwest geographical area of Nigeria. Contamination of this resource has been linked to many ambiguous sources. The aim of this paper is to identify and apportion the pollution sources of ... Read More
Health care system in Nigeria has been unprofessional for a very long time and it is still working its way up to the professional stage. Nigerias health care system has evolved from the traditional system to the modern system today. But even at the modern stage, it is still not ... Read More
Basil Davidson Episode 4In the fourth episode of Basil Davidsons Africa series, The King and the City the narrator discusses in great detail the Nigerian city of Kano. Basil Davidson goes presents the relationships between the king and his people as well as his political power. The episode also discusses ... Read More
The West African country of Nigeria is one of many nations worldwide where English is prevalent. The language was initially brought into Nigeria by traders, missionaries, and colonizers, and is used today in both formal and informal contexts. Both Standard English and Nigerian Pidgin English are spoken by much of ... Read More
The Thing Around Your Neck Taboo to Who?In The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie there are two very different short stories touching beautifully on the views of Nigerian post-colonization homosexuality. In one story, On Monday of Last Week the reader sees an ongoing and subtle curiosity between ... Read More
Nigeria is going through a lot at this time and we have a lot of problems to solve. These problems can all be solved. I picked soccer because I have interest in the sport and I think I have a few suggestions on how to improve the Nigerian Football Federation ... Read More
While in some parts of the world Christians and Muslims are able to coexist peacefully, in Nigeria the hostile relations between Christians and certain groups of Islamists have lead to violence and death. In order to understand the conditions today, we must look at the history of the two faiths ... Read More
It is the year 2007 in Uganda, Africa. You sit in a crowded courthouse as a trial takes place, but this is no ordinary trial. Yvonne Oyoo and Juliet Mukasa v. Attorney General, reads the judge. The plaintiff begins by reading their opening statement they describe a horrible scene Juliet ... Read More
Mother of George, directed by Andrew Dosunmu, follows the story of a Adenike Balogun, a Nigerian woman living in Brooklyn. Adenike undergoes many struggles throughout her pursuit to have a child, exposing the damaging importance of fertility and gender roles in Nigerian culture. While many Americans will have trouble relating ... Read More
Modern Day Witch HuntsIn the continent of Africa, many modern-day witch hunts are occurring. However, the one I would like to concentrate on is the pattern of witch hunts happening in Nigeria. The witch hunts occurring in this region are specifically targeting children. In poverty ridden towns, children are being ... Read More
Tears of the Sun, a movie released in 2003, tells the story of a team of Navy SEALs and their lieutenant as they venture on a mission to extract a US doctor, a mission priest and nuns. The movie is based on true events that occurred in the late 1960s, ... Read More
Malnutrition in NigeriaNigeria is located on the Western edge of Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea on its southern side, Niger to the north, Cameroon and Chad to the east, and Benin to the west. Nigeria is 923,768 square kilometers, about twice the size of California. Nigeria has a population ... Read More
Most people might have heard or known about Gbegiri soup knows its root is from the Western Part of Africa, Nigeria to be precise, it is a soup cooked and well enjoyed by the folks from that region. It is considered as a ceremonial meal, nevertheless it is also served ... Read More
LGBT group in Nigeria was always being disdained. The Criminal Code Act (Chapter 21, 217) in Nigeria had stated that any act of gross indecency between two males was against law and could be punished for three years of imprisonment (Intercourse between two females had not been penalized by law ... Read More
By the time that Chinua Achebe was working to publish his novel, Things Fall Apart, British colonialism in Nigeria was coming to its end and Nigerians were faced with numerous questions about the country and identiy they wanted to posess. How was their history going to be expressed? They had ... Read More
Nigeria Social and Political ChaosThe region of current-day Nigeria had no collective sense of nationhood. The disparate tribes of the Igbo and Yoruba among others lived in separate regions and had distinct cultural predilections. Nigeria was not well suited in the least to respective nationhood or autonomy. Even today, it ... Read More
"Chemical Arbitrage A Social Life of Bioequivalence" was written byKristin Peterson as part of "Speculative Markets Drug Circuits andDerivative Life in Nigeria", published in 2014. Judging from the content itcan be reasonably assumed the work is intended for peers in the field ofanthropology as well as people interested in the ... Read More
The resource curse refers to a paradox of plenty where countries with a high abundance of a highly demanded resource tend to suffer from mis-development as a result of the resource itself compared to those countries with few resources. In the case of Algeria and Nigeria, the resource in high ... Read More
Whos on Top The Long and Bloody Struggle for Power in Post-Colonial NigeriaNigeria, a democratic country located in the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa, is only one-third larger in size than the state of Texas, but has the largest population of any African country with 173.6 million citizens. Today ... Read More
Examine how and why business behavior can differ in different culturesPart 1Invisible boundaries exist in business practices dividing different cultures, thus making business practices vary in various cultures. This is the case for both Nigeria and America. The management of these invisible boundaries would be easier if managers were more ... Read More
Okonkwos Masculinity and the Igbo Culture The Path to SuicideAchebe portrays Okonkwo throughout the novel as an excessively masculine character. He is driven by his fear of being feminine like his father, whose lack of title caused him to be called an agbala, or woman. But in his obsessive efforts ... Read More
A common theme recurring throughout Chinua Achebes Girls at War and Other Stories, is the struggle between Christianity and traditional tribal religion and their influence over society in a rapidly changing Nigeria. This tension between Christianity and the native Igbo religion specifically is particularly evident in Marriage is a Private ... Read More
A study of most African countries requires a lot of historical perspective. This is not only because contemporary issues in general necessitate context, but because in Africa in particular, modern countries consist of various ethnic groups forced to live together by a European power seeking to take advantage of these ... Read More
Nigeria has long been viewed as a prime example of the oil curse. The country which is the largest oil producer in Africa with has been making headlines for environmental destruction, upsurge in ethnic violence and a deep seated problem of corruption. Nigerias government is highly dependent on oil, the ... Read More
Ethnography is discovering and letting the world know about a unique culture that is not so much like the one that you come from by writing and giving facts and descriptions. The person who experiences these other culturessub-cultures is called "anthropologists." There are many ways that anthropologist can study these ... Read More