For the scope of this paper, development refers to economic growth that leads to increased standard of living. The latter term itself is problematic, depending on whether it is measured simply in economic terms, like Gross National Product GNPor if it includes social and health measures, like education and life expectancy, which one finds in the Human Development Index HDI. One assumes that social workers will not be satisfied with an end-point at econometrics, since human welfare depends on much more than the accumulation of wealth. Thus the hazards of international studies and its interdisciplinary nature—we obtain both the strengths, as well as the weaknesses of narrowly focused fields.
The APBN president, Dr Idris Omede who led his members on a friendly visit to the president of PSN at the Pharmacy House in Lagos, frowned at the inter-professional rivalry, which he said has not only affected the health workers, but the patients and the health outcomes in the country.
He said the body, which was set up in ; comprising, for now, 27 professional bodies is actively involved in promoting and enhancing the status of the bodies by ensuring maximal utilisation of talent, skills and knowledge of the Nigerian professionals, with the believe that human welfare problems are multi-dimensional in nature and for this reason, employs a multidisciplinary approach to problem solving.
He said the body discourages traditional professional prejudice, intolerance, and self-centeredness, as it also believes that, in the interest of the wider society, "no profession needs to operate in isolation of the other professional bodies and by that very fact advocates frequent interfacing and cooperation amongst professions.INTRODUCTION.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON NIGERIA The Federal Republic of Nigeria is a tropical country on the West African Coast along the Gulf of Guinea, with the Republic of Benin to the West, Niger to the North, Chad to the North-East and Cameroon to .
PREFACE. Twelve years ago, from 10 April to 8 May , the First Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops was held on the topic: "The Church in Africa and Her Evangelizing Mission Towards the Year 'You shall be my witnesses (Acts )'".The Servant of God, Pope John Paul II, expressed his intention to convene this important meeting for the Church on 6 January so as to.
Sep 26, · Amid complex global multilateral challenges, Adama Barrow, President of the Gambia, told the United Nations Assembly on Tuesday that "no country can thrive or solve all its challenges in isolation.
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An overview of the protests around the Arab world and throughout North Africa and Middle East, against the numerous authoritarian and corrupt regimes as the global financial crisis, rising costs, growing unemployment and local disputes all combine to boil over and errupt into what looks like a separate grassroots waves of democracy protests.
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