Behailu Osro
(Education Strategy Center, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia),
Yoseph Abate
(EthERNet - Ethiopia)
23/11/2016, 08:30
Ethiopian Education Roadmap Project is a research project that studies about the current education system ranging from pre-school to the tertiary education. Until now, comprehensive literature reviews are conducted and hundreds of artifacts have been analyzed. The huge documents collected during this study process need to be turned into an e-library that will eventually be utilized as an...
Yoseph Abate
(EthERNet - Ethiopia)
23/11/2016, 08:50
Rivers in Addis Ababa have suffered an incessant degradation for so many years that they ended up as waste disposal bins and sewers. The need to revitalize the rivers and riversides within the city has been a priority for the Addis Ababa City Government for quite some time. Currently, researchers for the fields of Environmental Protection, Biology and Urban Planning are engaged in studying the...
Olutayo Ajayi
(Federal University of Agriculture - Nigeria),
Oluwaseyi Babarinde
(Federal University of Agriculture - Nigeria)
23/11/2016, 09:10
Agricultural extension finds itself at a time of crisis. Many of today's agricultural extension services are suffering under bureaucratic centralised management structures. Squeezed by decentralization policies, diminishing public funds and the privatization of public services, they are urgently in need of change. The design is to come up with communication model using mobile technology to...
Collins Udanor
(University of Nigeria Nsukka - Nigeria)
23/11/2016, 09:30
Plant tissue culture is a collection of techniques used to maintain or grow plant cells, tissues or organs under sterile conditions on a nutrient culture medium of known composition. Plant tissue
culture is widely used to produce clones of a plant in a method known as micropropagation. During the UNESCO-HP Brain Gain Initiative (BGI) project (2009-2013), the University of Nigeria team...
Abdulazeez Adelopo
(University of Ibadan - Nigeria),
Olawale Olayide
(University of Ibadan - Nigeria),
Rising Osazuwa
(University of Ibadan - Nigeria)
23/11/2016, 09:50
The University of Ibadan data archive and documentation (UI-NADA) platform (http://nada.ui.edu.ng/) was established in April 2015. It signaled the piloting of a web-based open access metadata archiving and documentation of survey datasets in any Nigerian University. The UI-NADA has recorded phenomenal hits since it was launched. This phenomenal success is the motivating factor for the proposed...
David Oguche
(ACEPRD, University of Jos - Nigeria),
Uchechukwu Ohaeri
(ACEPRD, University of Jos - Nigeria)
23/11/2016, 10:10
The Africa Centre of Excellence in Phytomedicine and Research Development (ACEPRD), University of Jos Nigeria has noticed a paradigm shift from traditional pharmaceuticals to plant derived medication in the treatment of diseases. This paradigm shift has led to a global demand for plant-derived medicines (phytomedicines) as a primary and complementary medical tool. Within the region,...
Segun Oyeyiola
(Obafemi Awolowo University - Nigeria)
23/11/2016, 10:30
Development of a remotely accessible meteorological data depository from an online server located at Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU). Using resources based on existing RENs this facility will allow researchers anywhere in the world to download reliable atmospheric data (in near real-time) from an array of low-cost automatic (and autonomous) weather stations to be deployed across Nigeria. This...
