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Eko Hospital

Medicine, Public Health

Eko Hospital; Nigeria’s fore-most private multi disciplinary specialist hospital, founded in 1978 by joint Chief Medical Directors-A.C Eneli, S.F Kuku and A.A.A Obiora whose surnames provided the hospital’s name: ‘E’for Eneli, ‘K’ for Kuku and ‘O’ for Obiora. The hospital has made many giant strides. First, it is the only public quoted hospital in Nigeria,…
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Cotton

Agriculture – Others, Economics – Others, History – Civilization, Lifestyle – Fashion, Uncategorized

Cotton; Plant grown and woven into cloth in western Nigeria and many parts of West Africa. Cotton was second to groundnut among cash crops through which farmers in northern Nigeria made their income[i]. Cotton had long been grown by the people of the western region for their own manufacture of cloth, but its cultivation was…
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The Great Hunger

Agriculture – Others, Agriculture – Rural, Agriculture – Soil Science, Agriculture- Animals (Others), Environment – Others, Geography – Land, Geography – Others, History – Social

In 1973, crops failed and pastures dried up over large expanses of Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Upper Volta, Niger, Chad, the Northern States of Nigeria, and parts of Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Dahomey. Millions of the cattle who form the livelihood of those countries’ peoples died or were in danger of death. Human lives were…
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Abayomi Oshin

Medicine, People, Public Health

Abayomi Oshin; first African to be trained as a physiotherapist. Oshin started the Physiotherapy department in University of Ibadan in October 1966 and degree programme is offered. Before he left in 1990, over 300 had graduated with degree certificates. Some of them became professors in the field, working all over the world. Born in Ijebu-Ode…
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Veterinary Public Health

Animals, Environment – Others, Environment – Wildlife, Medicine, Pharmacy – Control, Public Health, Research, Social – Welfare

Veterinary Public Health stands between human and animal medicine. It indicates how the environment affects the animal and the people even as more people share thesame environment with the animals. With the emergence of Ebola and other diseases from animals, this became accentuated. This is a relatively young field of medicine that is evolving. There…
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Ebola

Environment – Others, Health, Medicine, Pharmacy – General, Public Health, Research

Ebola virus in 2014 claimed about 11,000 lives in countries across Africa, including Nigeria. It all started on July 20 when an Asky Airline flight originating from Liberia landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. One of the passengers, a Liberian diplomat, Mr. Patrick Sawyer, collapsed and was rushed to the First Consultant Medical…
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Farouk Abdulmutallab

People, Police, Social Sciences

Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab: Fundamentalists whose failed bid in 2010 to bomb an airplane with 289 people on board lend credence to fears that Nigeria was becoming a fertile ground for extremist recruitment. Farouk was a model student, keen, enthusiastic. Often he would stay behind to discuss items in the lesson or in the news. Farouk…
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Fundamentalism

Justice, Philosophy – General, Police, Religion, Social – Welfare, Social Sciences

Fundamentalism; is ideological or religious intolerance. There is a clear demarcation between terrorism at an international level and the rise of fundamentalism in northern Nigeria as a region. There are many factors that led to the low level of tolerance and peace in this part of country. First is the problem of illiteracy. There is a…
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Nta Elijah Henshaw

Culture – Others, Medicine, People, Tradition – Customs

Nta Elijah Henshaw; the Obong of Calabar from to 2001 to 2008 was until his installation a visiting professor to the University of Benin and the Maxillo-Facial Dental Surgery Unit, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar born November 15, 1928. He became deputy provost and provost, College of Medicine, University of Lagos in 1979.…
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Igboora

Medicine, Towns/Cities

IGBOORA is settlement in Ibarapa Central Local Government of Oyo State reputed for a long time to have had the greatest number of twins in the state, as every household can boast of having at least one set of twins. Igboora is also believed to have the largest number of living twins in the…
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