An Assessment of Christian Missionaries’ Writings on Islamic Law in Nigeria: A Focus on Joseph Kenny O.P.

Islam has become well established in some parts of Nigeria for about eight centuries before the advent of Christianity which came in the wake of colonialism in the 19th century. Christianity was able to win converts in Nigeria, mostly in places where there were no Muslims. Different Christian denominations therefore, launched rigorous evangelistic onslaught against Islam in the quest to convert Muslims to Christianity. The issue of the reintroduction of Sharia has been one of the most controversial aspects of the Muslim-Christian relations in Nigeria. Christians resisted the implementation of the Sharia even in Muslim states. Writing about the Sharia is the major characteristic of Christian literature on Islam in Nigeria. This research samples the works of Joseph Kenny O.P., a Catholic missionary, who lived in Nigeria for almost 49 years working on Islam and Muslim societies.  The research is descriptive and analytical of some Kenny’s works in the field of Islamic law

OBJECTIVE STRUCTURED CLINICAL EXAMINATION (OSCE): EXAMINEE’S PERCEPTION AT DEPARTMENT OF PEDIATRICS AND CHILD HEALTH, JIMMA UNIVERSITY

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Small colony variants phenotype and biofilm formation: Implication in persistent Staphylococcus aureus infection

Staphylococcus aureus survival strategy for persistence can be attributed to their metabolic versatility under unfavorable conditions by switching to small colony variants (SCVs) phenotype and forming biofilm; these attributes contribute to their widespread dissemination, difficulty to detect in routine microbiological screening and challenging eradication particularly in clinical setting, resulting to persistent nature of their infections. The SCVs can survive intracellularly, misinterpreted as  coagulase negative Staphylococcus aureus (CoNS) and down regulate some virulence factors. Biofilm formation provides protection against antibiotics and immune responses; the matrix serve as a physical barrier and transfer of resistant determinant via conjugation occur among the encased bacteria because of their proximity. Thus; SCVs and biofilm aid evasion of antibiotics and immune response resulting to persistent infection. Therefore, understanding the process associated with the ability of bacteria to persist could significantly aid in the development of a better therapeutic options that will ultimately reduce the risk of morbidity and mortality

GENDER INEQUALITY AND CHALLENGES OF MOTHERHOOD IN THE DEVELOPING SOCIETY: LESSONS FROM HEAD ABOVE WATERS

We cannot dispute the fact that both challenges of motherhood and inequality in gender go together. Buchi Emecheta in her novel pointed out the challenges faced by women in the developing world. Although the story line may look fictitious but the novel really depicts what is going on in our environment. When we talk about challenges mothers faced in their matrimonial homes we talk about maltreatment, inequality, betrayal, infidelity, deprivation of rights of their female children coupled with the trauma they have to go through during pregnancy, labour, and child upbringing. However, many of them die in this situation leaving their children to suffer in the hands of their impious fathers especially the female ones since they are not regarded as the male ones. They are deprived of education, they are not well catered for and this is how it happens till they grow up, forced into marriages and the trend goes on even to their grandchildren.This is the type of hostile society women finds themselves in the developing world. This paper aims to study the challenges faced by the women folks in the developing society and to point out the lessons learned from understudying the novel “Head Above Waters

Ohmic Heating as Alternative Preservation Technique - A Review

The quest for new technologies in heating has drawn the attention of researchers to focus on energy saving and efficient techniques in heating food materials. Ohmic heating is one of these technologies because it heats both phases of food (liquid and solid) simultaneously by internal energy generated from electrical power. Using this method, the product undergoes minimum structural damage, retains its nutritional value, and is processed within a shorter time than with conventional heating methods. The technique also gives excellent processed quality products with lower energy cost. The heat energy generated during ohmic heating is transferred directly into the foods. The electrical conductivity of food products is linear with different temperature ranges and varies with heating time, food structure, and its constituents. As such, ohmic heating can be applied in different pre-processing and processing operations like drying, evaporation, dehydration, blanching, fermentation, extraction, sterilization, and pasteurization. This paper highlights ohmic heating as an emerging alternative novel heating technology to meet the demand for industrial and domestic food processing. Recommendations were made for further research to provide a more robust analysis of ohmic heating performance

UNDERSTANDING GRECO-ROMAN DERIVATIVES: AN IMPLICATION FOR LEARNING ANGLICIZED CONCEPTS

Education, in its true sense, is not synonymous with literacy, as it is very much linked to the gathering of information and to the application of effective solutions to the myriad problems of global society. The nuanced nature of the study of science in particular and humanities in general requires a great deal of effort from students, ranging from practical, field trips, excursions, records to the comprehension of derivatives and the technical sense of terms used in various fields of study, with particular reference to the unique nature of Greco-Roman words, which are typically subject to rotation by students. This gulf culminates in the student's acquisition of a lower level of learning and the deprivation of the reflective level of thought that contemporary society requires. In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the root derivatives of a variety of concepts and their technical interpretations, as applied in a number of different disciplines of science and humanities, in order to promote a deeper understanding of the definitions of technical words

Dynamical analysis and consistent numerics for a delay model of viral infection in phytoplankton population

In this article, the effects of time delay and carrying capacity in the dynamics of viral phytoplankton and consistence numerics are studied. Basic properties and stabilities of equilibria are rigorously analyzed and conditions for stability switches are found. A dynamically consistent nonstandard finite difference scheme for the continuous delay model is designed to verify the results and reveal some interesting features of the model. Some ecological implications and interpretations are provided.South African DST/NRF SARChI chair on Mathematical Models and Methods in Bioengineering and Biosciences (M3B2), Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Pretoria and MacArthur Foundation, Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria.https://link.springer.com/journal/133702019-03-01hj2018Mathematics and Applied Mathematic

TEORI AL-KHILAFAH DALAM FILSAFAT AGAMA SAYYID QUTUB

Teori Al-Khilafah dalam Filsafat Agama Sayyid Qutu

Investigations of nickel (II) removal from aqueous effluents using electric arc furnace slag

The tendency of electric arc furnace (EAF) slag to the adsorb nickel(II) from aqueous solution has been investigated through batch experiments. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) and Energy Dispersive X-Ray (EDX) Analysis. Analysis was characterized in order to give inside to the properties of electric arc furnace slag (EAFS). The adsorption result revealed that the maximum up take by the EAFS was 160.92mg/g at an equilibrium time of 216hr. The pseudo-second order kinetic fitted well with the kinetic data, showing a high determination coefficient (R2) of over 0.996. The adsorption isotherms of nickel(II) on this adsorbent for both linear and non linear isotherms were well described by Langmuir model, this is because it shown a good fitting to the experimental data when compared to other isotherm models. Moreover the nickel(II) adsorption was found to be dependent on the adsorbent dosage, contact time and initial metal ion concentration. From the result it can be deduced that EAFS could be used to effectively adsorb nickel(II) from aqueous solution