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There is growing enthusiasm about the role of mobile money in promoting economic growth and its contribution to poverty alleviation via opportunities for savings, credit, investments, and micro insurance. However, the link between mobile money and economic growth has yet to receive wide empirical examination in developing economies. The Nigerian government has embarked on various interventions, often associated with high costs, to promote the adoption of mobile money services. Whether or not these efforts link to economic growth can only be established through research. This study has aimed at exploring the nature of the relationship between mobile money development and economic growth in Nigeria. It has used a quarterly volume of mobile money transactions and real GDP as proxies for mobile money development and economic growth respectively. The study employed the ARDL bounds tests techniques by Pesaran, Shin, and Smith (2001), along with Augmented Dickey-Fuller tests and causality tests developed by Granger (1969) on time series data from Q12010 to Q42016. Data was obtained from the Central Bank of Nigeria's (CBN) statistics database and the Nigerian National Bureau of Statistics. Evidence of a long run relationship between mobile money and economic growth was established. The causality pattern discovered has revealed that changes in economic growth have shown a significant influence on mobile money but not vice versa. It was specifically found that with each 0.8 million Naira increase in Nigeria's GDP, a million increases in mobile money transaction occurred. It was recommended that Nigeria's policy makers should focus on policies with stronger effects on economic growth, spill-over effects of which would promote mobile money penetration in the long run. Future research may concentrate on identifying the specific areas with stronger effects on economic growth for the attention of policy makers and opinion formers. It was suggested that the scope of the study be expanded to cover wider periods and more countries within sub-Saharan Africa.

Childhood immunization is the initiation of World Health Organization (WHO) through the administration of vaccine to children below the age of five (5) years. It is considered important for improving child survival. This is because more than 10 million children in developing countries die every year because they do not access effective interventions such as immunization that could fight common and preventable childhood illnesses. The study adopted a survey research design and applied multi stage sampling techniques to sample 280 respondents in the study area. The first stage involved the splitting of the local government into wards. The second stage involves selecting streets, while the third stage was sampling households. In all, 6 wards were sampled for the study. The study utilized both primary and secondary sources of data. Two hundred and eighty (280) structured questionnaires were administered while twenty health personnel were interviewed. Descriptive statistics like tables, frequencies and percentages were employed in presenting and interpreting the data. Information from the qualitative data was transcribed and ordered in themes to ensure that outstanding points of the responses are noted. One of the strategies that has been adopted but must be strengthened is community engagement. The study concluded that there is under coverage of the local government area by health personnel in administering immunization vaccine. Most parents in rural areas denied seeing health workers in their community during immunization days. Parents out rightly denied health workers access to administer immunization vaccine on their children due to religious and cultural factors. Similarly, parents in the local government have negative perception on immunization vaccine. The study made the following recommendations; proper engagement of communities; the proper persons in the community is liaised with; proper incentives are provided and benefits are clearly explained; aggressive enlightenment by government and development partners to minimize misconception of immunization vaccine and increase acceptance.Key Words: Immunization, vaccine, Survival, acceptability and Health

Maternal healthcare remains a major challenge to the global public health system, especially in developing countries. Access to appropriate health care including skilled birth attendance at delivery and timely referrals to emergency obstetric care services can greatly reduce maternal deaths and disabilities, yet women in Niger East Senatorial continue to face limited access to skilled delivery services. The study adopted a cross sectional survey design using multi-stage sampling methods to achieve the required sample size of one thousand four hundred and forty-five (1,445) respondents. Questionnaires were administered to women of reproductive age (15-49 years), who are married. The respondents were selected from the sampled local government in Niger State. All the interviews were administered face-to-face ensuring 100% completion of the copies of the questionnaires. Focus Group Discussions (FGD) was also used for data collection. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The findings of the study revealed that: socio-economic index, who takes decision on health matter and religion were determinants of access to maternal health service. Women in households with high socioeconomic index are more likely to access maternal health services than those in households with low socioeconomic index (p<.001). Furthermore, women in households where men monopolized decision making are less likely to access maternal health services than women where joint decision is taken (p<.001). The higher the level of education of a woman the greater her access to maternal health services in health facility (p<.001). Finally, the study showed that there is high prevalence of maternal mortality rate in the study area, poverty is identified as one of the major barriers to accessing maternal health services and high illiteracy level among women is responsible for inability to access maternal health services.Keywords: Spatial location, Utilisation, Access, healthcare and women

In any developing nation such as Nigeria, the level of her telecommunication and ICT development is an issue that requires adequate planning especially when consideration is given to the amount of traffic and the available bandwidth in the system. Tourism is one of the areas that the Nigerian Government is considering as a source of internally generated revenue and therefore, infrastructure such as traffic free wireless communication system and fast internet accesss need to be provided to woo tourists and make them feel at home. This cannot be achieved unless the traffic is modeled and its analyzed .Yankari Game Reserve is one of the tourist attraction located in Bauchi state, north-eastern Nigeria. Wireless Communication and internet traffic is analysed in this paper using erlang models to improve the systems quality of service. It is shown that a multi-server system is the most appropriate model to reduce amount of delay in a peak period. It is also proven that delay time is reduced significantly when the number of users increases in a multi-server system.