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Capacity Development and Career Prospects in Conservation Science
(2009-04-28) Babalola, F.D.
Abstract
Nutrition is defined as the interrelated steps by which a living organism assimilates food and uses it for
growth, tissue repairs and replacement. There is a strong relationship between excessive nitrogen in the
atmosphere and the location of intensive farm animal production areas. Upward trend in animal production
has led to increasing pressure on pasture; consequently there is greater competition for available forage and
compaction of the soil. Single stomach animals like chicken excretes about 100g daily, and 36kg yearly
faecal nitrogen. As various experts have identified, reducing GHG emissions is both urgent and critical. As
the largest anthropogenisers of land and responsible for more GHG emissions than transportation, the
animal production sector must be held accountable for its many deleterious impacts, and changes in animal
agricultural practices must be achieved. Improving animal nutrition is therefore expedient to reduce urinary
and faecal nitrogen which in turn is proportionally reduces Nitrogen emission into the air.
Child insecurity: A case for Roman Catholic parenting Lessons
(HUMANUS DISCOURSE, 2022) John Tervershima Agberagba
Given the clergy children sex abuse scandal in the Roman Catholic Church, its justice and peace policy focuses on victim-child and offender-adult prosecution system and not a children’s wellbeing and development—parenting system. The latter being fundamental to children—Catholic justice and peace tradition for the worldwide Church. Using an analytical research approach, this article finds that worldwide, over 120 million girls are sexually abused; 90% by family members, boyfriends/husbands, or known persons. In fact, child neglect and violence drive children into crimes such that between 2005 and 2020 over 93,000 children were recruited into armed conflict. Hence, I propose a policy for enhancing children’s security, wellbeing and development that minimises child abuse and neglect in the Church: A Behavioural Parent Training Lessons (BPTLs). A policy that transforms parenting from a private and informal activity into a semi-public and semiprofessional one. This change will ensure that there are less children as footsoldiers for crimes in the world.
Contraceptive use among women of child bearing age in two Muslim communities in JOS-North, Plateau State, Nigeria
(World Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2015-06-02) Benjamin Nasara Joseph; Maxwell Longji.Patrick Dapar; Fatima Ibrahim Muhammad; Dauda Audi Dangiwa; Shalkur David; Nanloh Samuel Jimam
With a fertility rate of 5.7 and population growth rate of 2.6; Nigeria is yet to achieve the fertility rate of 4 children per woman fifteen years after the 2000 set time. This study assessed contraceptive prevalence rate and birth interval practices among women of child bearing age; it examined the effects of culture, religion and knowledge on contraceptive uptake. A cross-sectional study conducted among 288 women at Angwan-Rogo and Angwan-Rimi Muslim communities of Jos-North, Plateau State, Nigeria. The study found a contraceptive prevalence rate of 33% among women 15-49 years with married women accounting for only 13% compared to single women. About 80% of participants were sexually active; only 28% used modern contraceptives in their last sexual intercourse while one-third (33%) ever had deliberate abortion. Over 70% of respondents have their first child at the age of 15-20 years; 55% of them have co-wives, about half of them have 1-4 children while about 30% have 5-12 children per woman. Early marriage and early motherhood has cultural and religious origin that can be influenced by education and awareness. This study found a low contraceptive uptake corresponding with high sexual activity, low birth interval, high parity and polygyny.
pH of Beef Sausage as Affected by Time Postmortem on Yield and Keeping Quality of Sausage
(Proc. 7th Ann. ASAN-NIAS Joint Annual Meeting, 2018) Oshibanjo D. O.; Adesope A. I; Abegunde Lawerence
Changes in pH affect storage and processing quality of meat and meat products such as sausage. Sausages are made from comminuted lean meat and fat mixed with salt, spices and other ingredients, then filled into a casing made of animal intestine or cellulose. Sausages are made from beef, veal, pork, lamb and poultry or from any combination of these meats. Without proper storage, the product quality reduced with time. There are needs therefore, to examine the effect of post-mortem time on spoilage of meat used in sausage production. The meat samples for sausage making were harvested and allotted to five groups viz; 0, 6, 12, 18, and 24 hours post-mortem, respectively. Each treatment group was replicated thrice in a factorial arrangement in completely randomized design. The sausage recipe used for all the treatment groups were Beef 65%, Lard 20%, Soybean binder 3.5% green spices 2.19%, dry spices 1.5%, ice water 4.5%, salt 2%, sugar 1%, Sodium nitrite 0.01% and phosphate 0.3%. The sausage was stored for 14days at +40C. Sausage prepared was subjected to pH and microbial count. Data were analysed using descriptive statistic and ANOVA at α0.05. There were significant (P<0.05) differences observed in pH value among the treatments and storage days. Similar result was obtained for the microbial count. As the time post-mortem and storage day increases, there was an increased in values obtained. 0 and 6-hour time post-mortem were recommended from this experiment to harvest meat for best yield and keeping quality of sausage.
ASUU’s Prolonged Strike, a way forward for the Nigeria Academia; Strategic non-violent action
(AIPGG Journal of Humanities and Peace Studies, 2022) John Tavershima Agberagba
The Nigerian Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on prolonged strikes from 1999-2022 demanding that the Federal Government (FG) fund public universities to be competitive and ranked among the world’s best universities. The strikes have yielded some infrastructural development, but have not raised Nigerian public universities to world standard. Thus, the continued struggle of ASUU with the FG. However, prolonged strikes contribute to low standards in public universities too: contracted school years, half-baked graduates, and extended course time by two or three years. It denies Nigerian graduates enough skills to make them competitive in the job market. Hence, a question about the justification for the use of prolonged strikes and a way forward for ASUU. This article employs a qualitative content analysis of a strategic nonviolent action case study of students in the Ethnic Albanian civil struggle in 2000 with that of ASUU. The sources are books, journals, newspaper articles, and internet databases. This article finds that ASUU needs to use massive strategic nonviolent actions to succeed. Additionally, it must rely less on traditional, religious, National Assembly of Nigeria members and other elite leaders. Rather, it must partner with students and their parents to succeed with massive actions. Public university students belong to the 133 million Nigerian families living in poverty. The students directly benefit from an international standard of public education in Nigeria. If ASUU adopts this new way, it will gain internal cooperation and solidarity; empower students and ordinary Nigerians with the knowledge of how to wage resistance against counterproductive policies of the Nigerian government.