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Item Open Access Nigerian dress culture: an ethnographic perspective(Abuja: National Commission for Museums and Monuments, 2022) NATIONAL Commission for Museums and Monuments Folayemi T. Famoroti: Nigerian dress culture: introduction. Theophilus I. Umogbai & Olusegun O. Oisamoje: Aehan Egbehia: A ceremonial attire of titled men in Benin City, Edo state. Awodele B. Oyefunke: Adire (Tie-Dye) traditional clothing style in Abeokuta, Ogun state. Johnson Edwin: Red cap in Igbo traditional dressing among Enugwu-Agidi people of Anambra state. Abdul Tela: Traditional and contemporary Hausa dress culture in Kano Municipal Area Council. Edet Obot Okuette Akuku: Traditional regalia of Annang culture in Akwa ibom state. Suleiman Sama’ile Nabame: Bori spirit worship traditional dresses among the Kabawa people of Argungu in Kebbi state. Baba Gana Bulama Kambar: The study of Kanuri traditional Kulwu garment in Maiduguri, Borno state. Anuli Nwogbo: Ajeside dress of gbagyi people in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT): changes and continuity. Fadamijo Omolayo: Ita - Inochi (Woven clothes) in the tradition of the Ebira in Okene, Kogi state. Pauline Guyit Sunday: The traditional attire (Akle) of the Eggon people, Nasarawa state. Usman Mohammed: The traditional dressing of Fulani in Yola, Adamawa state. Azele Stephen Egbe: Trends in Indigenous Efik Attire, a case study of the Usobo apparel among the Efik people of Calabar, Cross River state. Isa Abdullahi: A’nger traditional cloth of the Tiv in Makurdi, Benue state.Item Open Access GROUNDWORK of Nigerian history.(Ibadan, Oyo state (Ighodaro Road, Jericho, P.M.B. 5205): Heinemann Educational Books Nigeria Ltd,, 1980) Edited by Obaro Ikime■ Geographical & Archaeological Backgrounds. ■ Nigeria Before 1800 ■ Nigeria in the 19th Century.Item Open Access Census of Nigeria 1931 Vol. IIA: village directory Northern provinces , Nigeria (Based on 1931 Census Material)(Lagos: The Government Printer, 1931) BROOKE, N. J.• Alphabetical list of all villages and towns with district, division and province and total population.Item Open Access Estimates of Nigeria: Memorandum on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Financial Year 1946-47(Lagos: Government printer,, 1946) GOVERNMENT printer• Part I: Present Financial Position o Financial developments during the war o The probable out-turn for 1945-46 • Part II: Budget for 1946-47 o Estimated revenue and expenditure o Detailed analysis of revenue heads (e.g. Customs and Excise, Direct Taxes, Mining, etc.) o Detailed analysis of expenditure heads (e.g. Agriculture, Audit, Aviation, Chemistry, etc.) • Part III: Estimates of Development and Welfare Expenditure o Overview of development and welfare schemes o Summary of estimates for development and welfare • Appendices: o Appendix O: Colliery Development Fund o Appendix P: Colliery Estimates of Working Expenditure • Memorandum on the Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure for the Financial Year 1946-47 o Financial Statement o Footnotes and other charges o Railway estimates o General overview of the budget • Additional Sections: o Detailed breakdown of departmental estimates (e.g., Agriculture, Audit, Aviation, Chemistry, etc.) o Special features of the estimates o Notes on specific revenue and expenditure itemsItem Restricted Access The Art of running(Abuja: Around the World Ministry International., 2024) OBAH, Anderson Efemena The starting line. Finding your purpose. Preparing your mind. Training for endurance. Overcoming obstacles. Finding strength in weakness. Seeking guidance. Staying focused. Embracing discipline. Persevering through pain. Encouraging others. Trusting in God’s timing. Embracing humility. Celebrating victories. The eternal crown. Finishing strong.Item Open Access The Administration of Nigeria 1900 - 1960: Men, Methods, and Myths(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1969) NICOLSON, I. F.• 1900—The Starting Point • The Planners and the Plan • Lagos and the Yorubaland Protectorate, 1900-1904 • The Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, 1900-1905 • The Amalgamation of Lagos and Southern Nigeria, 1905-1912 • The Protectorate of Northern Nigeria, 1900-1912: Reality and Myth • Lugard’s Amalgamation of Nigeria, 1912-1918 • Administocracy, 1918-1948 IX Transition to Ministerial Rule, 1948-1960 • The Problems of the Present • IndexItem Open Access Academic librarians' perceptions of digital media literacy skills and fake news awareness in Kwara state(Gombe: NLA Jewel Journal of Librarianship, 2024-03) MAHAMMUOD, SulymanOlaitan; Abdullahi, OlayinkaIsiaka; Shuaib, Agboola Olarongbe; Adebisi, Kolade Michael Introduction. Meaning of Academic Librarian and Academic Library as Promoters of DMLS. Digital Media Literacy Skills (DMLS) Concept of Fake News and Meaning of Fake News Awareness. Menace of Fake News in Nigeria. Academic Librarians' Perceptions of Digital Media Literacy Skills and Fake News Awareness. Need for DMLS. Conclusion.Item Restricted Access The Historical and Modern Perspectives of Nigerian Women(Yaba: Creative Consults Ltd, 2000) SOLOMON, Akin Orenodu; Opral Mason - Benson• Nigeria: The Background • Women in the Traditional Nigerian Society • The Place of Nigerian women in colonial Government. • Women and Political Development in Nigeria • The Role of Nigerian women in Christian and Islamic. Religious Development. Nigerian Women and the Arts • Professional Nigerian women in Nation Building • Nigerian First Ladies-A Brief overview • Women Organizations "Technological Backwardness - The Bane of. Television Industry in Nigeria". - Dr. Victoria Ezeokolie. • Closure of Concord Group of Newspapers almost ruined it".. - Dr. Mrs Doyin Abiola. • "The skin is the most abused Human Organ" - Professor Yetunde Olumide • "It was like taking a step unto the unknown" - Dr. Mrs. Mariam Odujoke Onuzo "Female Circumcision should be outlawed" - Justice Of Appeal Court Alooma Mariam Mukhtar • "The rights of Women are very clear in Islam" - Alhaja Latifatu Okunnu "All along I have been close to men in power" - Alhaja Omolola Mogaji • am the developer offemale football in Nigeria". - Princess Bola Jegede • "Women have being giving Nigerian Literature wider perspectives". - Professor Akachi EzeigboItem Open Access An Examination of the legal and environmental implications of the burning of laden oil vessels in Nigeria(International Journal of Law and Clinical Legal Education (IJOLACLE), 2024) OBIDIMMA, Angela E. Overview of the oil and gas industry in Nigeria. Environmental and maritime protection laws in Nigeria. Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) act. International maritime laws and conventions. International convention for the safety of life at sea (SOLAS). International convention for the prevention of pollution from ships (MARPOL). United nations convention on the law of the sea (UNCLOS) Overview of incidents involving laden oil vessel burning. Environmental impact assessment.Item Restricted Access Commandos of the kingdom(Garki-FCT: Around the world ministry int'l, 2024) OBAH Anderson Efemena Who is a commando. The qualities of a commando. Training to become a commando. The different types of commandos. Duties and responsibilities. Accomplishing the mission. Weaponry. Commandos and divinity. The reward for serving in the kingdom. Accessing the loss and casualties. Commandos for life. Monitoring: a quality shared by commandos of the kingdom. Commandos: who’s who in the kingdom.Item Restricted Access Infrastructure facilities and urban amenities in Makurdi: north central Nigeria, 1927-1999(Lagos state: Darosat global Ltd.,, 2024) AKPEN PhilipGeneral introduction; historical and environmental backgrounds of Makurdi town; infrastructure facilities and urban amenities in colonial Makurdi town 1927-1960; the provision of infrastructure facilities in Makurdi, 1960-1976; the creation of Benue state: urban renewal, infrastructural expansion and change, 1976-1999.Item Restricted Access Modernizing northern Nigeria: infrastructure, rural facilities and urban amenities, 1960-1999(Lagos state: Darosat global ltd.,, 2024) AKPEN, PhilipRegional government and economic development in Northern Nigeria, 1946 - 1966; industrial infrastructure in northern Nigeria, 1960—1999; electricity development in post-colonial northern Nigeria, 1960- 1999; water supply in post-colonial northern Nigeria, 1960-1999; transport and communication in post-colonial northern Nigeria, 1960-1999; socio-economic infrastructure facilities in Post-colonial northern Nigeria, 1960-1999; from government intervention programmes, rural development to adjustment in infrastructure, 1986-1999; defence and security infrastructure, 1960-1999.Item Open Access Green revolution insurance against hunger(Lagos: Federal Department of Information, (Domestic Publicity Division), 1982) FEDERAL Department of Information• concept and realities of the green revolution • operation feed the nation (ofn) • the green revolution programme • launching ofthe programme • concept ofthe programme • history • world conviction • broadview • nigerian angle • green revolution council • national committee on green revolution • action programme • proof of reality • food import statistics • food price trend • direct government production policy • foreign investorsItem Open Access Evolution of political culture in Nigeria: proceedings of a national seminar organized by the Kaduna state council for arts and culture(Ibadan: University Press Limited, 1985) edited by J. F. Ade Ajayi and Bashir Ikara• Opening remarks by the director of the Kaduna state council for Arts and Culture — Bashir Ahmed Ikara • Nigeria’s evolutionary political culture: issues and processes; Keynote address: factors in the evolution of political culture in Nigeria —J.F. Ade. Ajayi; • Kanem and Borno under three dynasties: some aspects of change and development c.700-1900 A.D. — John E. Lavers; • The structure of government in Kanem-Borno under the Saifawa—M. Nur Alkali; • Political centralization in the south of Borno: the case of Sukur in the 18th and 19th centuries—Bawuro Barkindo; • Political evolution or revolution?: the case of Kin Nupe before the advent of colonial rule—Sa’ad Abubakar, nineteenth century; • political culture in the eastern states of Nigeria — E.J. Alagoa; • Collision and coalition in the politics and society of western Nigeria in the 19th century— J.A. Atanda; • The political system of Ibadan in the 19th century—Toyin Falola; • The Jihad and its role in strengthening the Sarauta (kingship) system in Hausaland in the 19th century: the case of Kano — Abdullahi Mahadi; • Continuity and change in the political administration of the Nigerian emirates: the Kano example (1900-1960) — C.N. Ubah; • The 1976 local government reforms as an aspect of Nigeria’s political culture — Bashir Ahmed Ikara; • The military and political engineering in Nigeria (1966-79): an Overview —J.I. Elaigwu; • The new political infrastructure: prospects for the future —P.C.A. Daudu;Item Open Access A Thousand Years of West Africa History(Ibadan: University of Ibadan Press, 1965) edited by Ade J. F. Ajayi; lan espie M. A.History in West African Secondary Schools; The Approach through Archaeology to early West African history; The Peoples of West Africa around a.d. 1000; Empires of the Western Sudan: Ghana, Mali, Songhai; States of the Central Sudan: (i) Kanem-Bornu; (ii) the Hausa States; Islam in West Africa a.d. 1000-1800; The Peoples of Senegambia; Peoples of the Windward Coast a.d. 1000-1800; Asante and Fantc a.d. 1000-1800; Peoples of Southern Nigeria; Peoples of the Niger-Benue Confluence; West African States at the beginning of the Nineteeth Century; The Nineteenth Century Jihads by J. 0. Hunwick A Note on Samori Toure; Borno under the Shehus; Benin, Niger Delta, Ibo and Ibibio Peoples in the Nineteenth Century; Dahomey and Yoruba in the Nineteenth Century; Sierra Leone and Liberia in the Nineteenth Century; Asante, Fante and the British, 1800-1880; The Growth of European Influence in West Africa in the Nineteenth Century; The Colonial Phase in British West Africa; The Colonial Phase in French West AfricaItem Open Access African historical studies(London: Frank Cass and Company Limited,, 1979) AYANDELE, E. A.African Exploration and Human Understanding; Dr Heinrich Barth as a Diplomatist and Philanthropist; Traditional Rulers and Missionaries in Pre-Colonial West Africa; The Coming of Western Education to Africa; A Visionary of the African Church: Mpjpla Agbebi (1860-1917); James Johnson: Pioneer Educationist in West Africa; James Africanus Beale Horton, 1835-83: Prophet of Modernization in West Africa; Edward Wilmot Blyden, 1832-1912: The Myth and the Man; An African Church: A Legitimate Branch of the Church Universal; Writing African Church History (with J. F. Ade Ajayi); Mission in the Context of Religions and Secularization: An African Viewpoint; African Studies and Nation-BuildingItem Open Access Management of agricultural research for sustainable national development: the role of Management Development Institutes(MDIS)(Ilorin: Agricultural and Rural Management Training Institute (ARMTI), 2009-10-15) ABUBAKAR B.Y.Welcome address by Ag. Executive Director of ARMTI; Remarks by Chairman, ARMTI board of governors; biography of guest lecturer, Prof. B Y, Abubakar; lecture; discussant's comments; rapporteur's report.Item Open Access A History of Afikpo Circa 1600(Lagos: Mbeyi & Associates Nig. Ltd., 2005) AJA, Raph OkoAfikpo: The Town; Geographical Location; Population; Physical Features, Climate; Afikpo: It’s People; Outline of Traditions of Origin; The Legend of Igbo Omaka Ejali; The Meaning of Ehugbo; Afikpo Lineages; Tales of Migrations of Origin Nkpoghoro, Ugwuegu, Ohaisu; Itim, Ozizza; The Igbo-Egu-Nkalu War; Religion and Cosmology; Festivals and Cultures; Igbu Isi (Head-hunting); Pre-Colonial Political Organization; The Supreme Council; Age Grade System; Kingship Institution; Omaka Ejali; Origins of Otosi, Imete, Obu Eno; Post-Igbo Council of Elders; Council of Elders versus Otosi (Amadi); Future of the Council of elders; Pre-Colonial Agricultural Economy; Land Tenure System; Recruitment and Organisation of Labour; Production and Distribution Domestication of Major and Minor Crops; Agricultural Implements and Mechanization; Local Industries and Other Economic Activities; Craft; Pottery; Mat Making; Trading Activities: Afikpo and Her Neighbours; Market Days and Local Trade; External trade; Trade Routes and Transportation; Commodities of External Commerce; Medium of Exchange; Activities of Christian Missions in Afikpo and Unwana; Christian Missionary Activities; Impact on the Society; Britain and the Conquest of Afikpo; Appointment of Warrant chiefItem Open Access Economic reforms and Nigeria’s political crisis(Ibadan: Spectrum Books Limited, 2001) UMOREN, Rose■ Origins of Debt Distress; ■ A New Strategy Called SAP; ■ Design and Implementation External Support; ■ Impact (I) 93; ■ Impact (II) — Socio-political; ■ Free Market: A Critique Development Case Studies; ■ The Case for, and the Limitations of the MarketItem Open Access Benin and the Europeans 1485-1897(London: Longman Group Limited, 1969) RYDER, A. F. C.The Benin Kingdom—an historical perspective The era of Portuguese monopoly: 1. First contacts 2. The beginning of trade 3. The island trade and the first mission 4. The resumption of royal trade 5. The end of Portuguese monopoly: the second mission English and Dutch beginnings: 1. The English 2. The Dutch The Capuchin missions: 1. Spanish missionaries 2. Italian missionaries The Dutch at Ughoton: 1. Trade in the main river (1650-1700) 2. Establishment at Ughoton 3. Trade and conflict 4. Efforts to diversify trade 5. European rivals and Dutch decline 6. We’re here because we’re here The slave-trade era: 1. English and French in the mid-eighteenth century 2. Landolphe’s enterprise in the main river 3. The last years of the slave trade British encroachment: 1. Trade and the flag in the Benin River 2. The first consular visit to Benin 3. Retreat into the heartlands 4. The growth of commercial and consular pressures 5. The Protection Treaty of 1892 6. The dispute over trade 7. Consul-General Moor’s campaign against Benin 8. The massacre and punitive expedition