CLINICOPATHOLOGICAL PATTERN OF CHILDHOOD INTRACRANIAL TUMOURS IN THE NIGER DELTA

Category : JOURNAL OF MEDICAL AND APPLIED BIOSCIENCES, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

David Okon Udoh, Ali Elijah Usiholo, Mojisola Olutayo Udoh,                       

Department of Surgery

University of Benin Teaching Hospital, 

P.M.B. 1111, Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria.

E-mail: davidudoh07@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Intracranial tumours are a mixed group of neoplasms originating from intracranial tissues with varying degrees of malignancy. In children, they are predominantly solid tumours and are second only to hematological malignancies.About two thirds are infratentorial, unlike in adults, gliomas constituting the majority. Though of great concern, literature is almost silent on the pattern of this disease from the Niger Delta regions of Nigeria.

Study Objective/Setting: To document the epidemiology, management and outcomes of childhood brain tumours in our teaching hospital setting in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Methodology: Demographic, clinical, radiological and histopathological data of 57 patients aged ≤ 17 years treated for intracranial tumours from  inception of our neurosurgical unit in 2006 June to 2019 April were documented. Outcomes were also documented. Data was statistically analysed using SPSS 21.0.

Results: Childhood intracranial tumours represented approximately 8.0% of paediatric neurosurgical admissions and 27% of all intracranial tumours. Of the 57 patients studied, 37 were male (60%) and 23 (40%) were female i.e. ratio 1.5: 1. The age at presentation was 2 to 17 years; mean age was 9.79 (median 9.0) years in boys and 9.91 (median 10.5) years in girls. The duration of symptoms was 2 weeks to 48 months, forty-two percent presenting after 6 months of onset of symptoms. Headaches (65%), altered sensorium or frank coma (58%) and vomiting (44%) were the commonest symptoms. There were almost equal numbers of supra- and infratentorial tumours and 54% were gliomas. Cystic cerebellar astrocytoma (25%) followed by craniopharyngioma (14%), medulloblastomas (9%) and pineal region tumour (9%) were the most frequent histological types. Forty-eight patients underwent tumour resections. Mortality was 23%.

Conclusion: Intracranial tumours in children, though less common than congenital anomalies of the neuraxis, are associated with a very high mortality in paediatric neurosurgical patients. Besides the location and histological type, late presentation influences outcome significantly.

Keywords: Intracranial Tumours; Childhood; Predominantly Solid; Cystic Cerebellar Astrocytomas; Paediatric Neurosurgical.

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ASPECTS OF MATERIALS AND METHODS DEPLOYED IN LOW INCOME SELF – HELP HOUSING: THE DELETERIOUS EFFECTS AND PROPOSED REMEDIATION

Category : JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

Arc. Joseph O. Oko & Arc. James I. Demenongu  

Department of Architecture,

University of Jos, Jos.

Email: agaba30 @ yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

As a result of the necessity and quest to have own shelter emanating mainly from the ever rising accommodation rent cost, there has been a great thrust by poor urban dwellers, low and middle income earners to move to the urban fringes and start their shelter – somehow. The paucity of funds engenders the practice of cutting expenditure to the extent and effect that several building materials and methods employed are unconventional, deleterious and detrimental to the health, safety and security of such owners and users. This study investigated the extent and depth of this practice in a selected area (Gamajigo community) an urban fringe of the city of Jos, in North Central Nigeria with a view to proffering solution to the anomalous materials and methods. The methodology employed involved first of all identifying buildings that were in active construction process, investigating the methods and materials applied in their construction. Thereafter, knowledge of Architectural theory and practice was applied to propose better and more wholesome materials and methods. The findings were that the use of several cost saving measures (materials and methods) which had detrimental consequences were very pervasive. The study also found that in as much as cost saving measures were desirable to attain a low cost, low budget housing, there were some incontrovertible fundamental costs that building owners should not run away from bearing. The study therefore proffered better ways of attaining cost saving measures that would not jeopardizing health, safety and security of the owners or occupants. This study was significant and contributed to knowledge in that by adhering to the provisions and suggestions of this study, low cost housing could be attained by the urban low and middle income earners through self – help methods without jeopardizing health, safety and security of the owners of such dwellings. The study also has the promise of enhancing the durability of such structures coupled with the additional benefit of maintaining minimal expenditure for housing procurement.

Keywords: Building Materials / Methods, Deleterious Effects, Low Cost Housing, low/Middle income earners Income Earners, Self – Help Housing, Urban Poor.

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Category : JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

The Diminishing Role of Architecture in the Building Industry:

A Case Study of Jos Metropolis

Erekpitan Omoikhefe Ola-Adisa, Emmamoge Orewere, Mangut Salihu,

Gideon Koyan Benjamin, Inalegwu Inalegwu Ellaand

Raphael Iyima Eshaleku                                                                                  1-16

Soft Landscaping and Its Impact in Enhancing the Status of Nigerian

Urban Centres: A Case of Jos City Centre, Nigeria

Emmamoge Orewereand Ajibola Ruth Ogenyi                                              17-36

Assessment of Surface Water Quality in Rivers and Ponds for

Sustainable Irrigation Practice in Nigeria

Samaila Kunden Ishaya, Marcus Nengak Danjuma &

Kwarfwang Kevin Jack                                                        37-55

Aspects of Materials and Methods Deployed in Low Income Self –

Help Housing: The Deleterious Effects And Proposed Remediation

Arc. Joseph O. Oko & Arc. James I. Demenongu                                             56-70

SOFT LANDSCAPING AND ITS IMPACT IN ENHANCING THE STATUSOF NIGERIAN URBAN CENTRES: A CASE OF JOS CITY CENTRE, NIGERIA

Category : JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

Emmamoge Orewere1and Ajibola Ruth Ogenyi2

1Department of Horticulture and Landscape Technology,

 Federal College of Forestry, Jos

2Department of Science Laboratory Technology,

Federal College of Forestry, Jos

emmamoge200xpd@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

A city centre is the central commercial, cultural and social centre of a city where natural and man-made physical objects combine to create a vibrant urban environment with modern amenities in order to serve the needs of all people. Little attention has been given to appropriate landscaping of our houses, neighborhood, towns and cities in recent times. This is traceable to a number of factors among which are, industrialization, agriculture, environmental pollution (noise, air, water, land) urbanization, street open trading, level of awareness have exerted negative impacts on the environment especially in the urban centres. The urban image of the city centre of Jos reveals that there is no functional and interesting landscape elements to modify and beautify the environment, the dryness one experiences in the day usually has side effect on the city dwellers. The immediate pictures queue reveals poorly maintained accents at traffic roundabouts, air pollution, indiscriminate dumping of refuse, and ramshackle structures as a result of street open trading, hawking etcetera. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to examine the positive impact of soft landscaping in enhancing the status of Nigerian urban centres. The study area is Jos the capital of Plateau State situated in the North-Central geopolitical zone of Nigeria. Data for this paper was gathered through site survey, case study and literature review. This study posits that appropriate landscaping beautifies our private dwellings, government owned structures as well as creating pleasant scenes of our major roads, roundabout, recreation centers which invariably gives a healthy environment devoid of environmental hazards. The paper recommends that appropriate awareness programmes on values of landscaping should be intensified to individuals, professionals, Government and Non-governmental organizations.

Keywords: Jos City Centre, Nigerian Urban Centres, Soft Landscaping.

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THE DIMINISHING ROLE OF ARCHITECTURE IN THE BUILDING INDUSTRY: A CASE STUDY OF JOS METROPOLIS

Category : JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

Erekpitan Omoikhefe Ola-Adisa 1, Emmamoge Orewere 2, MangutSalihu1, Gideon KoyanBenjamin1, InalegwuInalegwu Ella1 and Raphael Iyima Eshaleku1

1Department of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Jos

2Department of Horticulture, Federal College of Forestry, Jos

Email: olaefeadisa@gmail;com;

ABSTRACT

The study examined the causes of the diminishing role in architectural practice in Nigeria, with a view to determining the factors that militate against sustainable architectural practice in Nigeria. Several internal and external factors have been found to contribute to the diminishing role of architects in practice globally and especially in Nigeria. The study also examined specific challenges facing Architectural practice in Nigeria. Using qualitative methods, the focus groups (consisting of undergraduate, postgraduate and architecture professionals and clients) examined reasons why the architects’ role is diminishing globally and especially in Jos Metropolis, Nigeria and discovered that the societal perception of architects is largely negative due to an obscure image presentation which is also evident amongst students of architecture. The study also made recommendations to mitigate the negative effects of the societal perception the architects’ role.Keywords: Diminishing Role, Organizational Challenges, Professional Service Organization

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Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

The Role of Vocational and Technical Education in Promoting Economic

and Environmental Sustainability

Aliyu Mohammed Bisalla, TPL. D.U Abubakar & TPL. Emmanuel Aiyenajeh 1-15

Guidance and Counselling: A Concern for Effective Educational

Counselling in the 21st Century Nigerian Schools

Ibrahim Bello, Abdulkadir Abdulkarim Olatunji &

Mohammed Mahmoud Baba                                                                          16-25

Nterprise Risk Management (ERM) and Firm’s Performance: Study of

 Selected Manufacturing Firms on Nigerian Stock Exchange

Adegbola Olubukola Otekunrin’; Tony, Ikechukwu Nwanji;

Adebanjo Joseph Falaye; Babatunde Taiwo Adesina;

Babatunde Taiwo Adesina; Frank Dayo Awonusi;

Eseosa David Obadiar; Samuel Abiodun Ajayi; &

 Damilola Felix Eluyela                                                                                   25-49

Government Policy of Carrying Capacity and Enrolment to University

Education in Nigeria: Basic Realities

Agbonlahor, Adenike Adetola                                                                         50-73

GOVERNMENT POLICY OF CARRYING CAPACITY AND ENROLMENT TO UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN NIGERIA: BASIC REALITIES

Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

Agbonlahor, Adenike Adetola

Federal College of Education,

Osiele Abeokuta Ogun State

Email:agbonlahoradenike@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Education is considered by many people as the panacea for national development. This explains the reasons many nations emphasize the need for educational policy in designing their plan for accelerated development. Thus, various programmes have been launched in Nigeria aimed at universalizing access and promoting equity in educational opportunity for the citizenry. Access to education is equally given a place in the National Policy in education. Furthermore, also enshrined in the Nigeria constitution is equity, as contained in section 18 of 1999. However, the demand for education especially at the university level has grown higher than supply, making the university system to outgrow the resources available to it to continue offering high quality education. In an effort to maintain quality and standard, the National Universities Commission (NUC) adopted the policy of carrying capacity. Unfortunately, this policy poses an impediment to access. Therefore, this paper examined the meaning of carrying capacity and having university education. The work under consideration also highlight the quest and availability of education at the tertiary level in Nigeria, matters carried in the policy that directs carrying capacity and its impediments vis-à-vis having university education in our country. Finally, the paper provides the way forward to enhance university carrying capacity and make having university education expensive. Suggestions include improved funding, facilities/infrastructure, dual mode universities, amongst others.

Keywords: Policy of carrying capacity, enrolment, demand and supply of university education, .

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ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT (ERM) AND FIRM’S PERFORMANCE: STUDY OF SELECTED MANUFACTURING FIRMS ON NIGERIAN STOCK EXCHANGE

Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

Adegbola Olubukola Otekunrin’; Tony, Ikechukwu Nwanji; Adebanjo Joseph Falaye; Babatunde Taiwo Adesina; Babatunde Taiwo Adesina; Frank Dayo Awonusi; Eseosa David Obadiar; Samuel Abiodun Ajayi; & Damilola Felix Eluyela

Department of Accounting and Finance,

Landmark University, Omu-Aran, Kwara State, Nigeria:

Email: otekunrin.adegbola@lmu.edu.ng, nwanji.tony@lmu.edu.ng; falaye.adebanjo@lmu.edu.ng , Adesina.babatunde@lmu.edu.ng; awonusi.frank@lmu.edu.ng; obadiaru.eseosa@lmu.edu.ng;  ajayi.abiodun@lmu.edu.ng; eluyela.damilola@lmu.edu.ng

ABSTRACT

The contemporary business environment is embroiled with enterprise risks which can have a negative impact on an organizations existence and success. These risks represent the threats to the ability of an enterprise to execute business process and create customer value. This study was carried out to find out whether the management of these integrated risks through enterprise risk management (ERM) can lead to better firm’s performance in Nigerian manufacturing In line with extant researches in this area, the proxy used for performance of firms in this study is profitability and it is measured by firm’ return on equity ratio (Lo, 2003; Hossein & and Mahdi, 2009). Descriptive research design was adopted in this study. The secondary data used were taken from the annual reports of the selected manufacturing firms. Random sampling technique was used for selecting firms for this study. The study revealed that practice of ERM is positively and significantly related to firm’s performance proxied by profitability and measured by the level of return on equity (ROE). The study also revealed lliquidity level of a firm which is proxied by current ratio (CR) is positively and significantly related to the level of return on equity (ROE). Leverage level proxied by debt to total equity ratio of a firm is negatively and significantly related to the level of return on equity (ROE). Finally solvency level proxied by debt to total asset ratio of a firm is negatively and significantly related to the level of return on equity (ROE). It is recommended that the manufacturing sector should adopt ERM practice in order to enhance firm performance and by extension increases organization’s reputation.Keywords: Enterprise, Risk, Profitability, Leverage, Solvency

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GUIDANCE AND COUNSELLING: A CONCERN FOR EFFECTIVE EDUCATIONAL COUNSELLING IN THE 21ST CENTURY NIGERIAN SCHOOLS

Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

Ibrahim Bello1, Abdulkadir Abdulkarim Olatunji2 & Mohammed Mahmoud Baba3

1Department of Education, Gombe State University, Gombe.

2Department of Educational Foundations, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto.

3Department of Educational Foundations, AbubakarTafawaBalewa University, Bauchi. E-mail: bellogundumaibrahim@gmail.com, Kisfak23@gmail.com,mmahmoudbaba@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

Guidance and counselling in Nigeria is characterized by a number of problems which have brought untold hardship to the quality of counsellors and in turn, quality of educational counselling.  Some of the problems include dearth in quality counsellors, imbalance in students to counsellor ratio, government attitude towards the plight of counsellors, would be counsellors lack of access to quality practicum. This exposition therefore focuses attention on counsellor education and counsellor quality, as well as conclusion and suggestions to enhance quality of guidance and counselling

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THE ROLE OF VOCATIONAL AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION IN PROMOTING ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Category : JOURNAL OF EDUCATION AND POLICY REVIEW, VOLUME 11, NUMBER 2, 2019

Aliyu Mohammed Bisalla, TPL. D.U Abubakar & TPL. Emmanuel Aiyenajeh

Department of Arts and Industrial Design, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa

Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa

E-mail: bisalla2003@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT

Vocational and Technical education is a vital component of education in development of practical and sellable/marketable skills for national economic empowerment and development in Nigeria. It is, therefore, a catalyst for diversifying Nigeria economy that is over depended on the oil sector of the economy for revenue acquisition. This paper started the discussion with detailed definitions and clarification of a few vital concepts. The paper also looked into the history of the development of vocational and technical education in Nigeria, it effect on the industrial revolution, socio-economic and political stability in Nigeria. It also clarifies the different skill acquisition through vocation and technical education in our tertiary institutions for manpower development. This paper also examines some certain factors responsible for the setback in vocational and technical education for sustainable growth and development. It also makes recommendations on how vocational and technical education can be given top priority in both formal and informal educational system for sustainable economic development

Keywords: Education, Diversification, Sustainability, Nigeria, Vocational, Skills

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