Nigeria is a country on the West coast of Africa. Its location and geography gives Nigeria a wide range of ecosystems including coastal ecosystems, dry savanna, tropical rainforests and swampy …

For our experiment, we used Mangifera indica, (mango), Azadirachta indica (known in Nigeria as dongoyaro), Nauclea latifolia (African peach) and Morinda lucida (brimstone tree). They are all used ...

Twenty three (23) power plants are connected to the national grid. Below is a list of the power generation stations in Nigeria: 1. Kainji power station reservoir. Kainji power station is hydro-electric powered. It has an installed generating capacity of 760MW. It was completed by 1968 and is located at Niger state. 2.

The Nigerian medicinal plants can be harnessed to provide for readily available and inexpensive anticancer drugs in the future because the plants reported in this review showed promising anticancer activity. Cancer is currently the leading cause of death globally and the number of deaths from cancer is on the rise daily. Medicinal plants have ...

Vegetable Plants for Nigerian Gardens. Located on the West coast of Africa, Nigeria is home to a variety of native vegetables and fruits. These plants, as well as non …

Studies on Nigerian plants have shown that they contain alkaloids, polyphenols, terpenes, glycosides, and others with possible therapeutic potentials. The antimicrobial activities of some new compounds such as alloeudesmenol, hanocokinoside, orosunol, and 8-demethylorosunol, identified from medicinal plants in Nigeria, are not …

The Plant. NLNG's six-train production plant sits across 2.27 sq.km of largely reclaimed land in Finima, Bonny Island, inspiring awe and confidence in Nigerians and foreigners alike. The plant ranks amongst the biggest and top performers worldwide; its performance is regularly benchmarked internationally with other LNG plants around the world ...

. Pyrolysis plant in Nigeria is a kind of popular equipment that can convert waste into pyrolysis oil and other useful products. It is effective to dispose of waste and reduce pollution in Nigeria. Nowadays, In order to solve the problem of recycling waste resources, the Nigerian government has begun to formulate policies to waste ...

Trans Afam Power owns the project. It was commissioned in 1962. The project was developed by Trans Afam Power. It is located in Rivers, Nigeria. Buy the profile here. 4. Ughelli Delta Power Plant. The Ughelli Delta Power Plant thermal project with a capacity of 964.68MW came online in 1966. Transcorp Power have the equity stakes in …

PDF | On Dec 5, 2017, J Ozougwu published Nigerian Medicinal Plants with Anti-Diabetic and Anti-Hypertensive Properties | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Accepted 15 March, 2010. Phytochemical scre ening and ethnomedic inal survey of twenty-two medicinal plants d istributed in. fifteen different families were car ried out in order to know the ...

Plant Gene c Resources Unit, Na onal Centre for Gene c Resources and Biotechnology (NACGRAB), Ibadan, Nigeria. Ecology, Evolu on and Conserva on Biology Unit, Department of Biology, University of ...

Top 20 Most Common Plants in Lagos. In Lagos, you can find Water hyacinth, African oil palm, Dieffenbachia, Golden pothos, Water lettuce, and more! There are 20 types of plants in total. Be sure to look out for these common plants when you're walking on the streets, in parks, or public gardens.

We hope you have enjoyed our list of 25 of the most interesting plants found in Nigeria. While not all of these plants are from Nigeria originally, they are all …

Nigeria plant diversity needs to be sustainably utilized and conserved. In response, both the Government and a number of Non-Governmental Organizations, donors, universities, and technical centres ...

With plants in Ewekoro and Sagamu in the South-West, Mfamosing in the South-South and Ashaka in the North-East of Nigeria, Lafarge Africa Plc currently has an installed cement production capacity of 10.5MTPA and has plans to grow in the near term. Lafarge Africa's Readymix business in Nigeria produces quality and innovative concrete and ...

Basil or Scent Leaf (Ocimum gratissimum) The African basil also is known as scent leaf and is a popular medicinal plant in Nigeria. It is called Efirin in Yoruba, Daidoya in Hausa, and Nchanwu in Igbo. This plant is usually home-grown and easy to come by. So it is a popular medicinal plant for making home remedies.

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Nigeria, while recent works 14, 15] revealed a total of 73, 143 and 132 plant species to be very useful in the traditional management of cancer, haemmorhoids and diabetes respectively in south western Nigeria. Some of these plants are included in Table 1. Rufus [16] reported that a large number of

Nigeria is a country with a rich biodiversity-humans, animals, and plants (Osawaru et al., 2013; Federal Republic of Nigeria, 2015), and also microbes (Izah et al., 2018;Anwadike, 2020). With an ...

The plant was probably introduced into West Africa as an ornamental plant but later become invasive. It probably has affinity for lead, which is why it is common on roadsides. The Yorubas in Nigeria call it "sepeleba" literally meaning "put a curse on Malaria" because of its efficacy in treating fever.

Single doses of 1 or 0.25 g/kg of dried leaves. of the plant given to Najdi sheep caused. toxicity 4–24 h after administration. T oxicity. in chickens also reported. Restlessness, dyspnea ...

Before the development and civilization by the British in Nigeria, medicinal plants are believed traditionally to be a therapeutic agent for the treatment of diseases such as typhoid, cholera, measles, gonorrhea. However, the knowledge of herbal medicines for treatment of diseases is confined to mostly the practicing herbalists or plant ...

Nigeria has commissioned the first of four units of the Zungeru hydropower plant (HPP), with the total capacity of 700 megawatts (MW). Construction of the remaining three units, which must be completed before the end of 2022 will increase the capacity of the Nigerian hydropower plants from the current 2.1 gigawatts (GW) to 2.8 GW.

Examples of recently discovered plant species in Nigeria and the utility of a checklist and database in generating conservation status data were demonstrated using the Ogba Zoo and Nature Park,...

Psychoactive substance abuse in Nigeria. According to the Nigerian Drug Use Survey of 2018, the national prevalence of psychoactive substance use in Nigeria was estimated to be 14.4% of the adult population, a value comparatively high compared to the 5.6% global annual prevalence of substance use (UNODC 2018).The estimated age of …

Classification of some medicinal plants based on their medicinal properties with the plant parts used in Nigeria are as follows. Antimalarial Properties – lemon grass …

18. Spider Plant: Spider Plant Spider plants have long slender green and white leaves, are easy to grow and preferably grown in flower pots, and are native to Africa. 19. Sunflowers: Sunflowers Not only grows like weeds in Nigeria but is useful for its oil. With buildings and road taking up much land, Nigerians should grow more of this.

Firing Up the Afam Power Plants: Power Africa Support Brings $344 Million Power Transaction to Financial Close in Nigeria. Image. Power Africa was instrumental in providing ongoing support to the Bureau for the Afam privatization transaction. The Office of the Vice President of Nigeria. The Nigeria Bureau of Public Enterprises engaged Power ...

Africa-based social enterprise, Oxygen Hub, is building 100 medical oxygen producing plants in Africa and one of the first three plants earmarked for Nigeria will open on Tuesday, July 13, in Nasarawa State. The mission of Oxygen Hub, which is supported by leading impact organizations including Skoll Foundation and ELMA Philanthropies, is to …