My Ph.D research is “Mapping of Malaria and Factors of Vulnerability in Rivers State, Nigeria”. Essentially, we are looking at the current prevalence of malaria and the spatial and temporal variations of malaria infection in the state from 1999 to 2017.

For the prevalence study, we will be collecting blood samples from consenting patients in Primary Healthcare Centres (PHCs). There are 383 PHCs in the state and we decided to use a conventional sampling technique called Systematic Point Sampling to select our study centres. We (members of UMT) have embarked on our field trip to pick the spatial entities of all the PHCs.

As a member of UniqueMappersTeam, I am enjoying the privilegde of working with the team to actualize this phase of my work. It couldn’t have been possible without them (us).

I joined UMT in January, 2018. It has been an awesome experience. So far, I’ve enjoyed a lot of priviledges that ordinarily, I wouldn’t have had assess to. To my mentor, Mr. Victor Ndubuisi Sunday, keep up the good work sir.