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Background: Cancers are emerging public health problems in developing countries like Nigeria. The epidemiological shift and aging population make cancers a challenge. Objective: We set out to describe the pattern of death due to cancer in our medical ward. The hospital is one of the premier hospitals covering the South East zone of Nigeria. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the case notes and death certificates of all who died of cancer in our adult medical wards for 16...

The study investigated problems facing Guidance and Counselling services in secondary schools as perceived by the Schools’ Counsellors. The design for the study is descriptive of the survey type. The population was made of all the practicing Guidance Counsellors in Nasarawa state secondary schools .All the participatory School Counselors in an annual congress held at the state capital constituted the sample for the study. In all 100 Counsellors were used for the study. A researcher designed...

Project ACTS "About Choices in Transplantation and Sharing" is a culturally sensitive intervention designed to address organ donation concerns among African American adults. Our study sought to evaluate the efficacy of two versions of the Project ACTS intervention and to determine whether reviewing materials in a group setting would be more effective at increasing participants' interest in organ and tissue donation than allowing participants to review the materials at home with friends and...

The place of the Internet in an era that has been described as information and communication age cannot be overemphasized. This is because many people have today seen the competitive edge that easy access to current and accurate data and information gives to its users. The paper aimed to find out how tertiary students in the Sunyani Municipality have been harnessing the potentials of the Internet technology. The purpose is to find out how the Internet is being utilized by students in the...

The paper surveys library use among students in tertiary education institutions in the Sunyani Municipality of Ghana. A response rate of 77.4% (697 responses) out of the 900 randomly distributed questionnaires from the three tertiary institutions in the Municipality was recorded for the study. The study was motivated by the advent of information technology’s role in information provision. It intended to unravel how best the academic libraries are meeting the information resource needs of...

Social Networking Technologies (SNTs) have changed lots of former procedures in this modern era. One of its greatest influences is in the area of teaching and learning. This research work seeks to identify in the Ghanaian context with unavailability of some ICT infrastructure and other determinants, how this advantageous tool could be adopted and implemented to benefit the area of teaching and learning in the private Universities. To determine the adoption factors three (3) different...

The study assessed the knowledge and practices for domestic accident among 756 mothers of preschool children in Ibadan Southwest Local Government Area, Nigeria.Pretested questionnaire with a 15-point knowledge scale relating to domestic accident prevention was used for data collection.Descriptive statistics and ANOVA were used for data analysis.Mean age of respondents was 28.7±5.8 years and 97.8% had at least primary school education.About 30.3% of mothers place cooking utensils on the floor...

The African continent is projected to suffer adverse impacts from climate change that are disproportionate to its contribution to global carbon dioxide emissions. Africa is particularly vulnerable because it is amongst the hottest places on the Earth and therefore any further warming is likely to have adverse socioeconomic consequences. Africa’s vulnerability is heightened by the fact that most of the economies in this region rely mainly on natural resources and rain-fed agriculture, which...

Indiscipline constitutes one of the major impediments to academic excellence in Nigeria.This study examines the reasons and consequences of student violation of the Dress Code in Federal College of Education Zaria.Both primary and secondary data were utilized and these data were qualitatively and qualitatively analysed to answer the research questions.Finding shows that the students' perception of the Dress Code was due to their family background and the influence of the school...

This study examined the level of entrepreneurial inclination among Ghanaian university students. It explored whether the academic programmes read by students and certain personal characteristics have any influence on entrepreneurial inclination. 520 final year students of the University of Cape Coast, reading various programmes were randomly sampled for the study. The design employed for the study was the descriptive survey and questionnaire was used for the data collection. Both descriptive...

Background: Glaucoma is a common cause of blindness in developing nations. The objective of this study is to determine the severity of primary open angle glaucoma and audit health records of glaucoma patients in our center. Materials and Methods: A retrospective case note search of glaucoma patients from out-patient clinic was carried out between January 2001 and December 2010. Data analysis included descriptive statistics and exact binomial 95% confidence interval (CI) calculated for the...

Background: The association between Down syndrome (DS) and congenital heart disease (CHD) was first recognised by Garrod in 1894. Several studies have reported about 40-60% prevalence of CHD in DS and a predominance of left to right shunts like atrioventricular septal defects (AVSDs), ventricular septal defect, patent ductus arteriosus and atrial septal defect. Objectives: This study was carried out to find out the prevalence and types of CHD among children with DS. Materials and Methods:...

Background: The pattern of congenital heart diseases (CHD) varies from region to region even in the same country. Echocardiography has been available in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospitalfor about 10 years now but problems then were non-available of appropriate probes for children making it difficult to make some specific diagnosis. This study was undertaken to determine the types and the relative frequencies of congenital heart defects seen among children at the Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital,...

Clay, which is a natural mineral in the earth remains the major ceramic raw material since time immemorial.  With the introduction of the new Educational Reform in 1987, many second and some third cycle institutions have taken ceramics as one of the vocational subjects in Ghana.  Clay, which is the main raw material, is difficult to come by within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis.  This has somehow affected the performance of institutions offering ceramics including St. John’s Senior High...

The study investigates facebook and relationship ma nagement among undergraduate students of Anambra State University, Uli, Nigeria. It adopt ed survey research method and used 300 students as the sample size. Anchored on the intera ctional view and technological determinism theories of the media, the study adopte d purposive sampling technique and used questionnaire as instrument for data collection. Fi ndings show that Anambra State University students are exposed to facebook. The findings...