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  Antimicrobial Activities of  Irvingia Gabonesis  Leaf and  Cyperus Esculentus  Extracts on Some Selected Isolates Abstract Bacterial resistance to antibacterial drugs in the treatment of some bacterial infections have become a menace that is causing untold health challenges to patients. The antibacterial activity of ethanolic extract of tiger nut (Cyperus esculentus) and Bush mango (Irvingia gabonensis) against candida albicans, Echerichia coli, Pseudomonas sp, Salmonella sp and Staphylococcus aureus was evaluated using agar-well diffusion, Minimum Inhibitory Concentration (M.I.C) and Minimum Bacteriocidal Concentrations (M.B.C) methods. Echerichia coli had the highest total colony count of 1.3 X 1011 Colony forming unit/ml(Cfu/ml) followed by Pseudomonas sp (8.8 X 10 10 Cfu/ml) and Staphylococcus aureus (6.7 X 10 10 ) at 1.0E-09 dilution, but in the 1.0E-10 dilution, Pseudomonas sp was highest with 9.7 X 10 11 Cfu/ml followed by E. coli (9.0 X 10 11 Cfu/ml).T...

  Rabbit Production in Semi Arid Zone of Sokoto State Abstract The paper was compelled to educate student and farmers in the area of Rabbit Production. The paper tries to summarize so many literatures in order to easy the act of learning rabbit production in relation to the regional weather of Sokoto state. There have been series of studies and papers on rabbit production but not even a single study has been carried out on the management of rabbit production by peasant farmer in relation to the weather condition in Sokoto south local government of Sokoto state. Keywords:  Rabbits production; Nigeria; Stock size; Farmers Introduction Rabbits production in Nigeria plays a significant role in the development and provision of food and materials for marketing purposes; however there are some problems which may be affecting the production of rabbit in Nigeria; these problem could be poor management procedure, poor funding and lack of treatment measure for health problem promotion ra...