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Nigeria: A Prime Example of the Resource Curse? Revisiting the Oil-Violence Link in the Niger Delta [PDF]
This paper studies the oil-violence link in the Niger Delta, systematically taking into consideration domestic and international contextual factors. The case study, which focuses on explaining the increase in violence since the second half of the 1990s ...
Annegret Maehler
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The dangers, directness, and purposes of online collective actions
Political Psychology, EarlyView.Abstract Most research on online collective action investigates low‐effort, social media‐based actions rather than tactics with highly disruptive potential. To better account for the variety of forms of collective actions that use digital technologies, we conducted an open‐source intelligence search (Study 1a) and an expert consultation survey (Study ...
Catherine G. Lowery +2 more
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Quantifying Mozambique's Peace Dividend: An Application of the Synthetic Control Method
Review of Development Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the synthetic control method and data from 20 African countries, this study quantifies the peace dividend in Mozambique, a country that experienced over 15 years of civil war. More specifically, we use data from 1977 to 2018 to investigate whether the end of the civil war in Mozambique in 1992 brought significant benefits to the country ...
Tendai Gwatidzo, Aldo Sitoe, Busani Moyo
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Coenzyme Q 10 Abrogates Flutamide-induced Hepatotoxicity in Albino Rats
Journal of Medical Sciences and Health, 2019 Aim: The efficacy and therapeutic benefit of flutamide (FLU) can be clinically limited by the occurrence of hepatotoxicity which may progress to liver failure.
Elias Adikwu +2 more
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Determination of heavy metals in medicinal plants from the wild and cultivated garden in Wilberforce Island, Niger Delta region, Nigeria [PDF]
Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research, 2017 Context: Adverse effects from herbal medicines may be partly due to the association of heavy metals with medicinal plants. Aims: To determine residual levels of Ni, Cr, Pb and Cd in nine selected medicinal plant species and the surrounding soils ...
Edebi N. Vaikosen, Gideon O. Alade
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Toxics, 2016 Beverages are consumed in Nigeria irrespective of age, sex, and socioeconomic status. Beverages may be alcoholic (wine, spirits, and beers) or non-alcoholic (soft drink, energy drinks, candies, chocolates, milks).
Sylvester Chibueze Izah +3 more
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT After the Nigerian Civil War, the Biafrans started from scratch through trades, mostly adopting the igba‐boi apprenticeship system in Nigeria. This paper examines the impact of the igba‐boi entrepreneurship system in post‐Biafra for the survival of the Igbo identity.
Chiemela Victor Amaechi +3 more
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The media, ethnicity and religion as determinants of failed republics in Nigeria [PDF]
, 2010 This paper analyses the covert influence of ethnicity and religion on the media and voting in Nigerian elections and demonstrates how previous Nigerian republics have been hindered because of the impact of ethnic disservice and election crises, thereby ...
Oboh, Godwin Ehiarekhian
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Disasters, Volume 50, Issue 2, April 2026.Abstract In the Inner Niger Delta, socio‐spatial transformations have profoundly reshaped relationships between communities and natural resources, intensifying tensions around access and management. In this context, local conventions (LCs) have emerged as essential instruments of social and environmental regulation in response to resource degradation ...
Baba Ba +2 more
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Agricultura Tropica et Subtropica, 2012 The aim of the study was to determine the physical properties of gbafi lo fruit and kernel, namely, axial dimension, geometrical and arithmetic mean diameter, sphericity, aspect ratio, 1000 unit mass, surface area, true and bulk density, porosity angle ...
Davies Rotimi Moses +1 more
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