This paper identifies some communication challenges undermining effective healthcare delivery in Nigeria, particularly as the problems pertain to communicators, messages, channels, audience, and feedback. The challenges ...

This paper sought to determine the influence of the Abule Oloke Merin radio-drama series in promoting behavioural changes in matters concerning HIV/AIDS/STDs among 247 purposively selected regular listeners. Data analyses ...

An issue of global concern, and a cause of great worry to all and sundry in Nigeria, security is a crucial factor in any attempt at national development. Therefore, this paper diagnoses and decries the state of security ...

It is an established fact that children everywhere attain and maintain different levels of performance in academic activities due to the interplay of myriad factors including the marriage statuses of children’s biological ...

Introducing ATCOMS as an acronym to African traditional communication systems, this paper discussed the concepts and channels of indigenous communication on the continent. To realize the objectives of Nigeria's 20-2020 ...

This paper discusses the concepts, strategies and effects of competitive marketing and advertising in the context of deliberate, ruthless, and persistent industrial rivalry in Nigeria. While analysing the gains and pains ...

This paper explored the origin, basic postulations, and selected scholars’ comments on the cultural imperialism theory. Based on the five-item scale consisting of scope, testability, parsimony, utility, and heurism proposed ...

Background: Psychological stress associated with cerebral palsy (CP) is known to be one of the most depressing conditions of families. In the traditional African society, some peculiar factors may contribute to the ...

The presence of water in crude oil emulsions presents some challenges during crude oil recovery and processing. Several methods are being used in the petroleum industry to break the stable emulsions into separate phases. ...

The abounding views on composite’s damage potential evaluations restricts composite’s life-cycle computations and associated decision making to metal-rooted composites due to the dearth of literature contributions on ...

Limited research has been carried out on school buildings in Africa, especially for children below the age of 11. The aim of this research was to assess the thermal performance of the building envelopes of selected public ...

There is paucity of data relating to the free swell properties of composite reinforcement materials in outdoor applications despite the widely-debated need for more investigations in this area. In this paper, a comparative ...

Labour only contract is one of the methods of project procurement. In this method, the client provides all the building materials while the contractor, who is responsible for the work is charged with the provision of the ...

Globalisation, the down town in the economy, with the resultant lean economic resources in Nigeria have led many clients, to adopt the labour-only contracting system as a means of saving cost. This is not only for piecework’s ...

Festac Town Housing Estate (Phase 1) was conceived and executed in the 70’s as a masterpiece in term of providing mass housing, livable environment and complimentary infrastructure facilities. This study uses the purposive ...

The performance of hospital buildings and their components depends to a large extent on continuous and planned need to identify the causes of lack of maintenance responsibilities among maintenance staff users of hospital ...

The study examines the use of rice husk ash as partial replacement for cement in concrete by determining various properties of rice husk ash through laboratory experiments. The objective of the study includes, determining ...

Health Information Seeking Through Social Media and Search Engines by Parents of Children With Orofacial Cleft in Nigeria. Adekunle AA1, James O2, Adeyemo WL2. Author information Abstract OBJECTIVE: To ascertain the ...

This paper examines the similarities and peculiarities between diabetes hand syndrome and diabetic foot ulcers in LUTH Nigeria