The leadership composition of a community 

1. Formal leader:- these are the first citizens in the community who are officially elected nominated or appointed to rule the community for instance  the bale, Oba, Emirs, Chiefs, Igwe, Ezes etc

2. Informal leaders: - these- are leaders who are unofficially installed but nominated and recognized by the community member to lead them in their day-to-day activities.

3. Officially  opinion leaders: - These are the  elders and or  religious representative groups   in   the  community e.g. pastor, Bishops, Imam, etc,

4. unofficial opinion leaders,

5. Representative of the poor and disadvantage.

6. Representative of the youths and the aged groups,

7.  Representative of  the women Association

Cultural Practices That Are Harmful to Health:

1. Very Hot bath following child birth

2. Early marriage/teenage pregnancy

3. Violence against women such as rape

4. Child abuse

5. Food taboo

6. Deep perinea cut

7. Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)

8. Any form of scarification

9. Forced feeding

10.  Potassium pap (kunnun kanwa)

11.  Abrupt weaning

12.  Refusal of medical treatment 

13.  Cutting the umbilical cord with unhygienic object and dressing with cow dung.

14. Denying children protein food e.g. egg. meat, fish

15.  Drinking of blue and lime to prevent pregnancy

Cultural Practices That Are Harmless/Helpful to Health

1. Prolonged breast feeding,

2. Sexual abstinence to space child-birth

3. Intake of lots of pap and fluids to improve the flow breast milk.

4. Washing the breast before breastfeeding the baby 

5. Washing of face and chewing sticks first thing in the morning before exchanging greetings.

6. Male circumcision which prevent phiomsis and paraphiomsis

7. Giving breast feeding mothers special diet(balanced diet).