Male chicks are less desirable outputs of hatcheryproduction from layer lineage. There is flat information on the manipulation of the physiology of chicken to achieve reasonable profit in Yoruba ecotype chicken (YEC). Achievement of profitable sex ratio is important for planning and decision...
cAqÄ«dah (Creed) is the foundation upon which all other Islamic activities are built. This is well enunciated in the Qur’Än, with supportive proofs in the Sunnah. However, cAqÄ«dah has been generating controversy among MufassirÅ«n (Qur’Änic Exegetes) of the early,...
Applied Theatre, over time, has been deployed to confront social problems and the spate of scholarship on it has continued to grow steadily. However, production process control and efficacy, and the theories guiding the practice of Applied Theatre still require more scholarly attention. This...
The controversy surrounding the interaction between efficient stock market hypothesis and financial crisis suggests mixed results for the Nigerian stock market efficiency prior to the financial crisis. The study evaluated the Nigerian stock market efficiency in the pre and post financial meltdown....
The global increase in ambient temperature is partly responsible for increase in energy consumption of cooling systems. Therefore, there is a need to optimise systems designs which require design codes based on current meteorological data. The aim of this study was to develop models from weather...
Tașawwuf is the process of realising the ethical and thespiritual ideals of Islam. The practice of Sufism has been generating controversies among various Islamic scholars including the Salafiyyahadvocates,who uphold that Islam should be practised the way it was in the first three generations of...
Given the government control on drug manufacturing and advertisement in Nigeria, Capital Media has been the only body allowed to undertake advertisement of drugs on behalf of the manufactures. Incidentally, among the available means of advertisement, jingles, drumming and radio jingles are the most...
Domestic investment has been one of the perturbing and persistent macroeconomic issues affecting Nigeria for decades. Capital flight represents forgone domestic investment in productive capacity of any economy. Against this background, the study evaluates the effects of capital flight on domestic...
The value of a brand is critical to purchase intention. One way of creating value is through partnership between two or more organisations called brand alliance. Several marketing services linger on different sporting activities for endorsement through symbolic partnership in their advertisements....
Nigeria has 853 kilometers of coastline, 450 kilometers inland waterways and a sovereign right to 200 nautical miles (370.4km) exclusive economic zone. In spite of these, water transport has a share of 1.6% of Nigeria’s domestic product; suggesting that this resource has not been effectively...
Diabetes mellitus is a chronic metabolic disease that is caused by a relative lack of insulin and/or reduced insulin activity resulting in hyperglycaemia. The rise in poverty level coupled with side effects of available anti-diabetic drugs necessitated the evaluation of a medicinal plant,...
Diarrhoea is an alteration in bowel movement characterized by increased water content and frequency of stooling. The aqueous extract of Mangifera indica leaves have been validated for their efficacy as an antidiarrhoeal agent. However, the probable mechanism(s) of action remain unknown. The...
Indiscriminate dumping of refuse is one of the major sources of pollution to the environment. Clean up of these wastes has led to appearance of dumpsites which has become preferable farmlands. This study was carried out to investigate the impacts of heavy metals (HMs) in dumpsites on soil and...
PDE-5 inhibitors such as sildenafil citrate (Viagra) commonly prescribed for the management of erectile dysfunction (ED) has been reported to have failure rate of 30-50% at the attempt of intercourse. This has thus necessitated the need to source for better alternatives in medicinal plants for...
Energy requirement of tillage operations depends on soil properties, tool and operating parameters. Effects of these factors on energy requirement to reduce cost of production, during tillage operations are yet to be thoroughly investigated. This study was aimed at determining parameters affecting...
Vegetables are food materials that provide vitamins, minerals and fibres. These plants are raised during dry season (irrigated) and rainy season (rain fed). Anthropogenic activities involved in the raising of vegetables have been of great concern. There is little or no available information on the...
Most epidemic data discretely observed are subjected to environmental influence. The dynamic of such data can well be described by discretised-version of Stochastic Differential Equations (SDEs). However, estimating the parameter for such a process proves to be challenging in practice. The...
The Feasible Generalized Least Square (FGLS) estimator for Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) models is generally efficient when the errors between equations are highly correlated and each equation satisfies all the assumptions of classical linear regression equation.However, the multivariate...
Knowledge of energy in crop production is essential for enhancing food production for the rapidly increasing population. Adequate attention has not been given to the analysis of energy inputs in crop production in Nigeria. Consequently, it is difficultto determine viable energy inputs in the...
Multi-order fractional differential and integro-differential equations are increasingly being used to model many physical phenomena which occur in fluid mechanics, engineering and other areas of science. Unfortunately, exact solutions do not exist for most of this class of problems in closed form....