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Item Boko Haram Activities and Reproductive Health of Women: Implications for Public Health(Published by the Nigerian Association of Health Educators, 2015) Shehu, R. A.,; Abdulraheem, A. M.,; Akorede, S. N.,; Jidda, K. A.; Abdulrasaq, Q. O.It is not an understatement to say that in Nigeria, terrorism has been a constant threat to all aspects of health including physical, social and psychological wellbeing of the people. The most prominent of the problems faced by the nation today is the Boko Haram insurgency. Boko Haram is a terrorist group which strongly perceive western education as forbidden. They then began the killings of who ever have received western education. They kidnap mostly, women and girls of childbearing age. The gruesome attacks by Boko Haram insurgents on women cannot be overemphasized. Girls are been abducted and used as suicide bombers while others are brutally raped and impregnated. Some of these women after being rescued result to abortion of the unwanted pregnancies while others see it as their fate and may decide to have the babies. This gave rise to series of reproductive health problems among the internally displaced persons (women) especially those living in the internally displaced camps. Several conditions in their new abode have made them prone to HIV, STIs, abortion, domestic violence, infertility and other reproductive health challenges. Effective reproductive health care is advocated for these women.Item Relationship Between Demographic Factors and Nutritional Problems of Elderly People in Ilorin South Local Government Area, Kwara State.(Published by the Department of Health Promotion and Environmental Health Education, University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria., 2015) Abdulraheem, A. M.; Shehu, R. A.,; Ologele, I.; Jidda, K. A.The study examined the relationship between demographic factors and nutritional problems among elderly people in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. The objective of the study was to investigate the relationship between gender, age, household composition and nutritional problems among elderly women in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. A descriptive research design of survey type was adopted. The population for the study consisted all elderly people living in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. A sample of two hundred (200) respondents was randomly selected using multistage sampling technique. Researchers' developed questionnaire which was validated by three experts in related fields and tested for reliability using split-half method was used for data collection. A reliability coefficient of 0.74r was obtained. Pearson Product Moment Correlation was used to analyze the hypotheses for the study at 0.05 alpha level of significance. The results revealed that age and gender had significant relationships with nutritional problems of elderly people in Ilorin South Local Government Area (.303r >195. .313r> 195) while household composition does not influence nutritional problems (089r<195) among elderly people in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. The researchers concluded that age and gender have significant relationships with nutritional problems while household composition has not significant relationship with nutritional problems among elderly people in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. The researchers recommended that elderly people in Ilorin South Local Government Area should be given more enlightenment on the causes, effects and prevention of nutritional problems as this will reduce the cases of nutritional problems among them.