Category: Science
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Ogilby’s Duiker, also known as the, White-legged Duiker, Cephalophus ogilbyi, is a little known small antelope found in the southeastern end of Nigeria, distinguished among other duikers by its paler coloration and… read more
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Oguntola Sapara the medical doctor; one of the pioneers of modern Medicine in Nigeria, is remembered for his brave fight against cultism as practiced by worshippers of the small pox god, Sopona.… read more
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Ola Orekunrin is an Health expert and innovator, born 1986 in England to Nigerian parents from Ekiti State. Orekurin grew up in a foster home in the English seaside town of Lowesoft,… read more
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Yaba Medical School was a colonial medical training college founded in 1930 to train medical assistants with the award of a diploma. The school represents the first steps in post-secondary education in… read more
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Ore Green was a Nigerian nurse, and celebrated avatar of Lady-like grace, born 1885 in Lagos to an ex-Superintendent of the Detective Force. Ore trained at St. Peter’s School, C.M.S. Girls’ Seminary,… read more
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The Scimitar-horned Oryx, Oryx dammah, which formerly existed in northern Nigeria and indeed throughout the Sahel, is an antelope species of the Oryx genus, which has long and curved horn. A few… read more
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Palm Oil is red oil extracted from palm fruits. To produce palm oil, the palm tree, Elaeis guineensis is being climbed by dexterous men for the harvest of nuts which is then… read more
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Acanthus montanus is a forest region robust erect plant occurring in humid places mostly on the stream banks.The plant, native to West Africa, has been introduced to the rest of the world for… read more
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Puff Adder, Bitis arietans, of Africa is one of the deadliest snakes in the world. It is a fat snake but relatively short at an average length of 90 to 110 cm.… read more
