ASSESSMENT OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PREVENTION OF MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIV PROGRAMME IN KONTAGORA GENERAL HOSPITAL, KONTAGORA, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA  

2016-09-13
Globally, HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of mortality among women of reproductive age and contributes a great deal to the death of infants and children. Even in countries that ...

ASSESSMENT OF SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF SOME MORPHOMETRIC PARA METERS OF TAGWAI IN MINNA STATE,NIGERIA  

2016-10-10
Water scarcity is among the main problems to be faced by many societies in the world in the 21" century. Water scarcity is both a natural and human-made phenomenon. It ...

IMPACTS OF SAND AND GRAVEL MINING ON THE ENVIRONMENT IN GWAGWALADA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA FCT, NIGERIA  

2016-11-10
Economic development is one of the main objectives of developed and developing nations worldwide. Development comes with the growth of urban areas. Urban growth is achieved through sand and gravel ...

IDENTIFICATION AND MAPPING OF HEALTH HAZARD IN KONTAGORA, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA  

2016-11-11
An epidemic is any outbreak of a disease among members of a specific population that exceeds the extent of occurrence of the disease normally found in that population. Epidemics affect ...

IDENTFICATION AND MAPPING OF ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS IN BARKIN SALEH AREA OF MINNA, NIGER STATE, NIGERIA.  

2016-11-11
Poor environmental conditions have lead to poor health, which aggravates poverty and often results to lower levels of income owing to sickness, diseases and increased spending on health care, which ...

RESIDENT'S PERCEPTIONOF THE EFFECTS OF 2003 FLOOD DISASTER AND GOVERNMENTS RESETTLEMENT EFFORTS IN AKARE WUSHISHI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, NIGER STATE NIGERIA.  

2016-11-11
Over the past decades, disaster and their impacts on economic and social activities have been on the increase worldwide, perhaps due to the growth in population of people living in ...

EFFECTS OF FINANCIAL RISKFACTORS ON HOUSING ESTATE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN ABUJA, NIGERIA  

2016-11-11
Housing estate development projects involves _huge financial investment and tisk. Financial risks are therefore an essential factor that affects housing estate development project objectives of cost time and quality. The ...

ASSESSMENT OF HOUSEHOLD FIRE SAFETY PREPAREDNESS IN MINNA NIGER STATE NIGERIA.  

2016-11-11
Fire has been source of comfort and catastrophe for the human race. Most of the residential fire are caused by the misuse of domestic equipment, individual heating, open fire, smoke ...

EFFECT OF FLOODING AND COPING CAPACITY OF RESIDENTS OF IDAH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KOGI STATE, NIGERIA  

2016-11-11
Recent flood disasters in Nigeria have been of major concern to people, communities and institutions in which Kogi State was one of the affected state during 2012 flood disaster with ...

MAPPING OF FLOOD PRONE AREAS IN BADEGI AREA OF KATCHA GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE, NlGERIA  

2016-11-11
Regularly occurring flood events do have a history in the Badegi area of Katcha Local Government, the study area for this research. The analysis of flood events, the resulting damage ...