Emmanuel Babatunde | University of Delaware (original) (raw)
Uploads
Papers by Emmanuel Babatunde
African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2013
Fish parasitology is an indispensable tool in aquatic health studies and a basic understanding of... more Fish parasitology is an indispensable tool in aquatic health studies and a basic understanding of richness of a community parasitism in many localities is essential for instituting control. Many copepod parasites are ecto-parasites which negatively affect the appearance and reduced production of species of economically important fish, both from the wild and fish farms, thus making them difficult to market. In this study, copepod parasitic investigation was carried out in gills of 856 fish mugilidae (Mugil cephalus and Liza falcipinnis) in three stations (Ganvie, Djdje and Zogbo) of Lac Nokoue lagoon. In the three stations, three species of parasitic copepod were found: Nipergasilus bora, Ergasilus latus and Ergasilus lizae. The highest total percentage copepod prevalence was found in Ganvie (86.23%) and the least in Djdje (63.14%). There is significant difference (P<0.05) in the rate of infestation of L. falcipinnis at Djdje than the other two stations, where as M. cephalus shows no significant difference in the rate of infestation in the three stations. The research reveals higher number of parasite copepods during the rainy season.
Ethnic or Religious intolerance in contemporary Nigeria is often a function of the effort to mobi... more Ethnic or Religious intolerance in contemporary Nigeria is often a function of the effort to mobilize religion and ethnic rivalry to wrest limited resources that trickle down to the community level. In the absence of an effective policy to invest Nigerian petroleum resources, accountably, in infrastructures that provide employment and improved quality of life, members of diverse communities socially construct "insider" and "outsider" groups using religion and ethnicity to corner limited resources. This presentation shows how competing segments of a rural poor community were transformed into a corporate entity that protects the rights of all its constituents. It uses data collected from a multi-disciplinary micro-credit, small holder poultry grant. Poultry Specialists at the local Nigerian university, combined effort with an American nutritionist and an American anthropologist to bring practical up-todate knowledge in micro-credit and poultry care to poor uneducated local community men and women of diverse religions. The presentation will show how this USAID funded Association Liaison Office grant strengthened the network of relationships in this community , thus assisting poor people to overcome ethnic and religious rivalry through improvement in economic resources and animal source food consumption in the community.
Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 2013
African Journal of Environmental Science and Technology, 2013
Fish parasitology is an indispensable tool in aquatic health studies and a basic understanding of... more Fish parasitology is an indispensable tool in aquatic health studies and a basic understanding of richness of a community parasitism in many localities is essential for instituting control. Many copepod parasites are ecto-parasites which negatively affect the appearance and reduced production of species of economically important fish, both from the wild and fish farms, thus making them difficult to market. In this study, copepod parasitic investigation was carried out in gills of 856 fish mugilidae (Mugil cephalus and Liza falcipinnis) in three stations (Ganvie, Djdje and Zogbo) of Lac Nokoue lagoon. In the three stations, three species of parasitic copepod were found: Nipergasilus bora, Ergasilus latus and Ergasilus lizae. The highest total percentage copepod prevalence was found in Ganvie (86.23%) and the least in Djdje (63.14%). There is significant difference (P<0.05) in the rate of infestation of L. falcipinnis at Djdje than the other two stations, where as M. cephalus shows no significant difference in the rate of infestation in the three stations. The research reveals higher number of parasite copepods during the rainy season.
Ethnic or Religious intolerance in contemporary Nigeria is often a function of the effort to mobi... more Ethnic or Religious intolerance in contemporary Nigeria is often a function of the effort to mobilize religion and ethnic rivalry to wrest limited resources that trickle down to the community level. In the absence of an effective policy to invest Nigerian petroleum resources, accountably, in infrastructures that provide employment and improved quality of life, members of diverse communities socially construct "insider" and "outsider" groups using religion and ethnicity to corner limited resources. This presentation shows how competing segments of a rural poor community were transformed into a corporate entity that protects the rights of all its constituents. It uses data collected from a multi-disciplinary micro-credit, small holder poultry grant. Poultry Specialists at the local Nigerian university, combined effort with an American nutritionist and an American anthropologist to bring practical up-todate knowledge in micro-credit and poultry care to poor uneducated local community men and women of diverse religions. The presentation will show how this USAID funded Association Liaison Office grant strengthened the network of relationships in this community , thus assisting poor people to overcome ethnic and religious rivalry through improvement in economic resources and animal source food consumption in the community.
Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science, 2013