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The vast bulk of households, especially those in an informal settlement, live in jammed conditions, surrounded by substandard houses, sometimes located in areas prone to various hazards which do not offer satisfactory resistances against diseases. The home is the elementary requirement to a better health delivery system not the hospital (WHO, 1999). Basically, only 25% to 30% Nigerians, usually top government officials and prosperous or fortunate individuals enjoy a decent resident (Azzan et al 2005). Aim of this article will be accomplished through the following objectives: to examine the contemporary practices of the urban residential property market in Nigeria; to scrutinize activities of the informal sector in the urban residential property market in Nigeria; and to evaluate the nemesis of the activities of the informal sector in the urban residential property market in Nigeria. Appraisal of relevant texts established that informal housing have flooded or seem to outnumber the formal and or planned housing in the residential property markets in Nigeria (Chirisa, 2008; Gerber, 2007). Legitimacy of the informal housing seems to be no longer an issue. Regrettably, the terrible and dreadful environmental situations related to informal sector activities create a chief threat to the well-being of residents' lives. The faults of government planning controls, and the unsystematic housing developments coupled with the informal sector activities have generated chaotic and unsafe urban environments. Finally, residential units built informally collapses frequently, claim innocent lives and discard wealth (Chirisa, 2008; Gerber, 2007). Informal sector housing, particularly those for residential purposes cause real hazards for the urban people who don't have enough money for medicine.

This paper discussed the School-Based Management Committee of Basic schools in Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja, implementation problems and way forward. Secondary data were used to provide empirical support for the points raised in the paper. The secondary data were sourced from print materials and online resources on School-Based Management Committee of Basic schools in Nigeria. The paper identified funding problems, low parents attendance in SBMC meeting, inability of parents to provide counterpart support, extortion by supervisory bodies supervising SBMC projects, uncompleted projects, poor monitoring and evaluation, poor capacity building for SBMC members and insecurity problems as the problem hindering effective implementation of School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) of Basic schools in Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. To address these problems, the paper recommended that government should release grant to the School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) as at when due to the SBMC for the implementation of the identification of projects and government should encourage School-Based Management Committee (SBMC) (parents) to contribute their counterpart funds etc.

The objective of tertiary education in Nigeria can only be realized when the tertiary institutions environment are peaceful, secured and conducive for teaching, learning and implementation of research programme. The recent attacks on tertiary institutions, especially on the academic staff, non-academic staff and students cannot guarantee sustainable development of tertiary education in Nigeria. Therefore, this paper discusses the effects of insecurity on theacademic staff of Nigerian tertiary institutions. The research employed the used of secondary and primary data to provide empirical supports for the various points raised in the paper. The secondary data used for this paper were sourced from both print and online publication. The paper concludes that attacks on academic staff of tertiary institutions have led to the death of academic staff, disruption of teaching programme, research programme, displacement of academic staff and brain-drain. To address these problems of insecurity, the paper recommended that government should identify problems causing insecurity, banditry and insurgency in the country and solve them. Management of the university should provide adequate security in all staff quarters and installation of CCTV at strategic locations should be done. All tertiary staff quarters should be fenced and adequate funds should be provided for the security unit of tertiary institutions and the units should be equipped with modern security technologies etc.

Routine immunization coverage in Nigeria is suboptimal. In the northwestern state of Sokoto, an independent population-based survey for 2016 found immunization coverage with the third dose of Pentavalent vaccine to be 3%, whereas administrative coverage in 2016 was reported to be 69%. One possibility driving this large discrepancy is that administrative coverage is calculated using an under-estimated target population. Official population projections from the 2006 Census are based on state-specific standard population growth rates. Immunization target population estimates from other sources have not been independently validated. We conducted a micro-census in Magarya ward, Wurno Local Government Area of Sokoto state to obtain an accurate count of the total population living in the ward, and to compare these results with other sources of denominator data. We developed a precise micro-plan using satellite imagery, and used the navigation tool EpiSample v1 in the field to guide teams to each building, without duplications or omissions. The particular characteristics of the selected ward underscore the importance of using standardized shape files to draw precise boundaries for enumeration micro-plans. While the use of this methodology did not resolve the discrepancy between independent and administrative vaccination coverage rates, a simplified application can better define the target population for routine immunization services and estimate the number of children still unprotected from vaccine-preventable diseases.