United We Stand: How the Election Results Dismiss the Narrative of a Divided #Nigeria

LSE’s Lola Adeyemo looks at the numbers behind the 2015 Nigeria Presidential elections and analyses what it reveals about the Nigerian state. This post is part of our African Elections series

Fishermen cooperatives in the Green Revolution Programme

The aim of this study was to examine areas in which fishermen cooperatives can become involved and then suggest operational guidelines in order to increase fishermen income and also to make the Green Revolution Programme a success through increased production of fish. The paper enumerated different areas in which fishermen cooperatives can participate. These include: thrift and credits, thrift and savings, consumers and building cooperative societies. It is the belief of the author that the expansion of fishermen cooperatives into the areas mentioned in this paper can enable members to process and market their products more economically, buy supplies and equipment in large quantities and obtain lower cost credi

Cohomological consequences of the pattern map

Billey and Braden defined maps on flag manifolds that are the geometric counterpart of permutation patterns. A section of their pattern map is an embedding of the flag manifold of a Levi subgroup into the full flag manifold. We give two expressions for the induced map on cohomology. One is in terms of generators and the other is in terms of the Schubert basis. We show that the coefficients in the second expression are naturally Schubert structure constants and therefore positive. These formulas also hold for K-theory, and generalize known formulas in type A for cohomology and K-theory.Comment: 10 pages, minors typos correcte

Environmental impact of crude oil spillage at Agoubiri community in Southern Ijaw local government area of Bayelsa State

Assessment of the result of crude oil spillage that occurred at Aguobiri Community in Southern Ijaw Local Government Area of Bayelsa State in 2007, is presented in this paper. The results of the laboratory analysis of water samples for Total Hydro carbon content (THC) was 1.56mg/l, 2.94mg/l and 23.96mg/l at 300m,200m and 9m respectively from the spill point. Heavy metals values in plant tissues were Vanadium-2.1 4mg/kg, Nicke-4.06mg/kg and THC of 09,309.5mg/kg at 300m from the spill point. The values of heavy metals in soil samples were Vanadium 2.14mg/kg and Nickel4.19mg/kg and THC of 133,886.20mg/kg at 300m from the spill point. This is to buttress the fact that oil spill is not limited to the site of occurrence but spreads to affect flora life far away from the spill point. Consequently, this negatively impacts farming and fisheries activities in such areas

Assessment of Genetic Diversity among Selected Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Lines Based on SSR Markers

Genetic diversity in eight Nigeria, two Benin Republic and five United Kingdom cultivated tomato lines was assessed using simple sequence repeat (SSR). Genotyping was carried out with 15 SSRs. Among the markers used, 11 SSR markers were polymorphic. For the SSR analysis, the total number of polymorphic alleles was 33 , with a mean of 3.00 and the average polymorphic information content (PIC) was 0.36. The genetic diversity within the lines was considerably moderate (0.31). The Estimates of Rogers ' distance varied from 0.03 to 0.66. The 15 lines were clustered into two major groups and a singleton based on unweighted pair-group method with arithmetic mean (UPGMA) cluster analysis of the SSR-based genetic distance (GD) estimates. Group I included 10 lines from all the geographical regions evaluated, and the group II consists of 4 lines which are essentially from Nigeria. TM09 (UK line) grouped separately forming a singleton. Understanding the genetic diversity among the tomato lines is a good starting point for establishing and maintaining collections, gem1plasm ba11ks and proper characterisation of Nigerian tomatoes in order to preserve the genetic variabilit

Occurrence of Anisakids nematodes on frozen hake (Merluccius capensis) in Yenagoa market, Bayelsa State, Nigeria

Samples of the frozen hake (Merluccius capensis) were obtained once a week as corresponding to supply in Yenagoa Market Bayelsa State, Nigeria. From every supply of 10 cartons, 10 pieces of hake were examined for the presence of Anisakids nematodes. The incidence was concluded after sampling continuously every week for 8 weeks between September-November 2009. The highest parasite burden (13.2 ~c 2.28) was recorded in the second week and the lowest (8.5~c 2.9) in the 7th week, the highest mean weight of fish sample calculated was 134.80 ~c 19.16 gm in the 4th week and lowest in the 5th week with 118.30 ~c 3.56 g. The mean length was highest (29.10 ~c 1.90cm) in the second week and lowest (26.40 ~c 1.88 cm) in the 7th week. The percentage infection was 96.25% and very alarming since only 3 pieces were not infected as observed from all the samples examined

Nutritional deficiency presiding to disease conditions in cultured fish

It is when fish are confined and fed supplemental feeds that nutritional deficiency symptoms occur. Only complete understanding requirement of cultured organisms will allow the feed manufacturer or culturist to provide adequately for the species under culture. The nutritional deficiencies are reviewed as absolute and non-absolute terms. The review concluded that deficit are interwoven and usually not limited to inadequacy or non inclusion of a certain feed ingredient especially for aquatic animals

The Impact of Financial Literacy and Frequency of Meetings of Members of Audit Committe on Financial Reporting Quality in Nigerian Quoted Companies

The main objective of this study was to evaluate the impact of Financial Literacy (FL) and Frequency of Meetings(FM) of members of Audit Committee on financial reporting quality in Nigerian quoted companies. Data for the study were derived from annual reports of one hundred and thirty one (131) companies quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange over the period of 2006 to 2012. The data were analyzed using descriptive, correlation and Ordinary Least Square (OLS). The multivariate regression technique was utilized to estimate our model. The findings showed that audit committee financial literacy and audit committee frequency of meetings had a positive significant influence on financial reporting quality. Based on these findings, some recommendations were made, prominent amongst them, was that, in order to strengthen the impact of financial literacy on financial reporting quality, regulatory authorities such as SEC, CBN and NDIC, should give special attention to audit committee members with high status with a view to making it mandatory for all companies to comply with it. Status, in this context, implies an aspect of personal power reflecting the ability to influence outcomes based on perceived skills, qualities and personal attribute