Background:The reported health and socioeconomic consequences of ear piercing, especially in modern day society, underscore the need to further research into this subject. In this study, we determine the trends and complications of ear piercing among selected Nigerian population.Aim and Objectives:The aim and objective of this study was to draw attention to the trends and complications of ear piercing with a view to prevent its associated complications.Methodology:It is a descriptive cross-sectional study carried out between February and May 2015 among selected Nigerian population from two of its six geo-political zones. A self-administered semi-structured questionnaire which had been pretested was used to collect data from 458 respondents who consented using multistage sampling technique.Results:Of 480 respondents enumerated, 458 completed the questionnaires and gave their biodata. The male:female ratio was 1:6.2. Their ages ranged from 18 to 75 years with a mean of 35.56 ± 10.16. About 35.4% of the respondents were within the age group of 31–40 years. Majority of the respondents, i.e.,79.3% practiced ear piercing on their children. Most of them (86.8%) preferred single piercing. Ear piercing was performed within the 1st week of birth in 37.2% of the respondents. Large percentage (93.2%) of the respondents will not encourage ear piercing in male children. Nearly 20.5% of the respondents observed complications.Conclusion:Ear piercing remained a common practice in Nigeria, with respondents preferring it on females. Majority of the piercings are done in childhood and by untrained personnel. Keloid formation was the notable complication observed by the respondents. There is a need to increase awareness about the hazards of ear piercings and to enact laws that regulate ear piercings particularly in children which is hereby stretched.

In spite of the huge number of past and present researches on wisdom, more about this construct remains cryptic. Various approaches have been adopted by the Cognoscenti to understand the nature of wisdom. One of such approaches is the implicit theory of wisdom. This is concerned with the search for an understanding of people"s folk conceptions of what wisdom is. The goal of this work is to examine the perception of wisdom among the Yoruba with a view to understand its characteristic features from proverbial perspectives. Fifteen Yoruba proverbs and idiomatic expressions that fulfill the study criteria were collated and analyzed. The study noted that Yoruba perceives wisdom as a distinct virtue that grows and develops with life experiences. It reaffirmed the universality of wisdom and that nobody has monopoly of wisdom. However, the findings show the tendency to exploit or cheat under the guise of being wise. To this end, the Yorùbá in their wisdom had coined proverbs to teach the cheat that what he or she considers as wisdom is in fact stupidity. Overall, the Yoruba perceives wisdom as a universal virtue that helps human being to understand deal with and succeed in the world without hurting the soul of mankind.