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    Prevalence of and risk factors for stunting among school children and adolescents in Abeokuta, southwest Nigeria

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2011
    Stunting adversely affects the physical and mental outcome of children. The objectives of the study are to determine the prevalence of and risk factors associated with stunting among urban school children and adolescents in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Five hundred and seventy children aged 5-19 years were selected using the multi-stage random-sampling technique.
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    An empirical growth model for major oil exporters

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. The paper uses quarterly data on nine major oil economies, six of which are current members of OPEC.
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    The politics of regional integration in West Africa

    West Africa Civil Society Institute, 2011
    While many regional leaders profess open support for economic integration under the auspices of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), very often it is mainly at the level of rhetoric as their actions sometimes betray their true commitment to the regional integration ideal as indicated in this study.
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    New imperatives for sustainability in a developing economy’s civil society sector: a case study of Nigeria

    West Africa Civil Society Institute, 2014
    The 2008 global financial crisis brought about cuts in international development assistance to sub-Saharan Africa. There may yet be further cuts as donor countries struggle with slow economic recovery. Private philanthropies have not been spared; some were forced to adjust their funding commitments after losing sizeable revenues to the crisis.
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    The 2011 elections in northern Nigeria post-electoral violence: origins and response

    Nigeria Stability and Reconciliation Programme, 2014
    What can be done to reduce the likelihood and scale of violence around elections in Nigeria? In 2011, most of the violence occurred after the election, as the results of the presidential poll began to become clear and almost all of it occurred in ten northern states. An estimated 938 people were killed and 735 were injured in three days of rioting and targeted ethnic-religious killing.
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    Silence on the lambs: The abducted Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria and the challenge to UNSCR 1325

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2014
    This policy brief analyses the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram and explores how the kidnapping represents some of the challenges with operationalising United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325.
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    Silence on the lambs: The abducted Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria and the challenge to UNSCR 1325

    Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, 2014
    This policy brief analyses the abduction of the Chibok schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram and explores how the kidnapping represents some of the challenges with operationalising United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325.
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    Nigeria’s Boko Haram: beyond the rhetoric

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2014
    As the world remains focused on the fate of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by members of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram from the town of Chibok, Borno State in mid-April, it is clear that this terrorist organisation is rapidly reinforcing its position as a regional menace.
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    Nigeria’s Boko Haram: beyond the rhetoric

    African Centre for Constructive Resolution of Disputes, 2014
    As the world remains focused on the fate of more than 200 Nigerian schoolgirls kidnapped by members of the militant Islamist group Boko Haram from the town of Chibok, Borno State in mid-April, it is clear that this terrorist organisation is rapidly reinforcing its position as a regional menace.
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    Solidarity with a sharp edge: Communal conflict and local collective action in rural Nigeria

    Afrobarometer, 2014
    Studying communal violence in Nigeria, this paper provides new insights into the link between the experience of violent conflict and local collective action. It shows that the association between past exposure to violence and increased local collective action previously described by other scholars holds for Nigeria, too.

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