Entre deux mots
As the life cycle of information products has become increasingly digital from “cradle to grave,” the nature of electronic information management has dramatically changed. These changes have brought new strategies and methods as well as new issues and challenges. At the bottom line the services are increasingly delivered to a desktop from distribut...
Published in Journal of biosocial science
Age at menarche was investigated using data collected from demographic surveys (WFS, DHS) conducted in Nigeria between 1982 and 2018, all of which were based on large representative samples of the female population. Linear-logistic regressions were used to estimate mean age at menarche, its trends and its risk factors. Mean age at menarche had unde...
Published in Studies in family planning
Little is known about the link between health literacy and women's ability to safely and successfully use misoprostol to self-induce an abortion. While abortion is only allowed to save a woman's life in Nigeria, misoprostol is widely available from drug sellers. We interviewed 394 women in 2018 in Lagos State, Nigeria, who induced abortion using mi...
Published in Journal of Nematology
The root-lesion nematodes (RLN), Pratylenchus spp., are among the major plant-parasitic nematodes affecting yam (Dioscorea spp.) production in West Africa. The distribution and diversity of RLN species associated with yam was investigated through a soil and tuber survey of the main producing areas in Nigeria and Ghana. Pratylenchus spp. were detect...
Cet article analyse la façon dont la production pétrolière a reconfiguré les identités communautaires dans le delta du Niger au Nigeria. Il s'intéresse notamment à deux localités en milieu rural et urbain, à savoir l'île de Brass, sur la côte Atlantique, et Okrika, dans une banlieue de Port Harcourt. L'article montre que la ruée sur l'or noir a pro...