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IntroductionCaffeine, a Methylxanthine, is an unregulated stimulant psychoactive substance (Nehlig et al,1992; Snel and Lorist, 2011). The absence of legal prohibition contributes to making it the most widely consumed psychoactive substance worldwide (Snel and Lorist, 2011). Students use it to keep awake to study. However, caffeine has been associated with multiple untoward medical and psychiatric or psychological effects. It has also been associated with academic difficulty and has been...

The study assessed the prevalence of complications associated with traditional uvulectomy and identified factors associated with favorable outcome after management in a pediatric population in North-Western Nigeria.This cross-sectional descriptive study was carried out at the accident and emergency section as well as at the otolaryngology out-patient clinic of the Federal Medical Centre, Birnin-Kebbi, Nigeria.Patients with traditional uvulectomy complications were recruited on consecutive...

The experience of violence to men in Africa has been under-researched, because culturally it is not believed that men may be victims of abuse. This study determined the prevalence and factors associated with experience of Sexual Violence (SV) to men students in tertiary institutions in a metropolitan city, South-West Nigeria. Using multistage sampling technique, 600 men students were randomly selected from two tertiary institutions in Ibadan, Nigeria. With the level of significance set at 5%...

Background.Unsound recycling of e-waste releases toxic metals into environmental media and has deleterious health consequences to humans as the metals transfer to humans through the food chain, direct contact and inhalation.Objectives.This study assessed soil contamination with lead (Pb), copper (Cu), chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni) and cadmium (Cd) arising from crude e-waste recycling.Methods.Forty-eight soil samples were collected from the vicinity of high-, medium- and low-activity recycling...

The aim of this paper is to find out the effects of the COBAC regulations regulating the microfinance industry on the governance of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Cameroon. The paper is based on 35 in-depth interviews carried out from May to June 2011 and June to July 2012 with managers and accountants from MFIs in Cameroon, MFI clients and non-clients, regulatory authorities in the Ministry of Finance, and accounting professionals. The findings show that the regulations have broken...

The quality or output of any organisation or programme depends to a very large extent on the competence and efficiency of its human resources or personnel. All serious minded organisations spend a very high percentage of their capital in manpower development in order to bring out the quality of the goods or services that will stand them out for success. The need for adequate training and retraining of the human resource of any organisation becomes a matter of optimum survival and as such...

The world environmental situation is likely to be further aggravated by the increasingly rapid extinction of species. This is likely to destabilize various ecosystems. This phenomenon has stimulated citizenship’s awareness to the extent that it is acknowledged that its study involves great educational value and should be present at school. Biodiversity teaching quality depends on how it is dealt with in the classroom. Given that textbooks constitute a widely used material, its content should...

The Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP) in Malawi was introduced in 2005/06 season against the background of bad weather affecting production, prolonged food shortages and high input prices in the absence of soft farm input loans for smallholder farmers. The primary purpose of the program was to increase resource-poor smallholder farmers’ access to improved agricultural farm inputs to achieve food self-sufficiency and increased income through increased maize and legume production. This paper...

This study assesses the synergy effects of governance in mobile phone penetration for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data for the period 2000–2012. It employs a battery of interactive estimation techniques, namely: Fixed effects, Generalised Method of Moments and Tobit regressions. Concepts of political (voice and accountability and political stability/no violence), economic (government effectiveness and regulation quality) and institutional (corruption-control and...

This study assesses the synergy effects of governance in mobile phone penetration for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data for the period 2000–2012. It employs a battery of interactive estimation techniques, namely: Fixed effects, Generalised Method of Moments and Tobit regressions. Concepts of political (voice and accountability and political stability/no violence), economic (government effectiveness and regulation quality) and institutional (corruption-control and...

This study assesses the synergy effects of governance in mobile phone penetration for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data for the period 2000–2012. It employs a battery of interactive estimation techniques, namely: Fixed effects, Generalised Method of Moments and Tobit regressions. Concepts of political (voice and accountability and political stability/no violence), economic (government effectiveness and regulation quality) and institutional (corruption-control and...

This study assesses the synergy effects of governance in mobile phone penetration for inclusive human development in Sub-Saharan Africa with data for the period 2000–2012. It employs a battery of interactive estimation techniques, namely: Fixed effects, Generalised Method of Moments and Tobit regressions. Concepts of political (voice and accountability and political stability/no violence), economic (government effectiveness and regulation quality) and institutional (corruption-control and...

This study examines the impact of globalisation on inclusive human development in 51 African countries for the period 1996-2011 with particular emphasis on income levels (low income versus middle income), legal origins (English common law versus French civil law), resource wealth (oil-rich versus oil-poor), landlockedness (landlocked versus unlandlocked), religious domination (Christianity versus Islam) and political stability (stable versus unstable). The empirical evidence is based on...

At the end of this presentation, participants will learn the viability of using Skype technology to teach food, nutrition and health to African American elders in a community-based educational setting.

IntroductionAdolescent development has emerged as a major area of education and psychological research (Akinade and Sokan 2006) Adolescents have long been regarded as a group of people who are searching for and desire to find some forms of identity and meaning in and to life. They have also been regarded as unique group with a wide range of difficulties and challenges in their transition to adulthood. Adolescents have difficulty facing major decisions as they enter Senior Secondary (SSS)...

Climate change has become one of the major Environmental problems facing the world today and the media has been central in making public the distressing evidence of a wide range of its implications on Agriculture, Ecosystems and health.Climate change knowledge and awareness creation are essential for successful adaptation and mitigation.The present study was conducted in the Birim Central Municipal, Ghana, and 400 Senior High Students were randomly selected from five schools.Both closed and...

Antiretroviral therapy (ART) restores immune function and reduces HIV-related adverse outcomes. But treatment failure erodes this advantage and leads to an increased morbidity and compromised quality of life in HIV patients. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence and factors associated with first-line ART failure in HIV patients at the University of Gondar Teaching Hospital.A retrospective study was conducted on 340 adults who had started ART during the period of September...

This paper employs nationally representative household survey data on parents of adult individuals to analyze the intergenerational transmission of education in nine Sub-Saharan African countries. The paper provides the levels, trends, and patterns of intergenerational persistence of educational attainment over 50 years, with a special focus on gender differences. The study finds a declining cohort trend in the intergenerational educational persistence in all the countries, particularly...