Tragedy struck yesterday in Gombe when gunmen attacked a church in the state capital, killing about six people and wounding several others. Pastor Johnson Jauro of the Deeper Life Christian Church in Nasarawo within the Gombe metropolis said the ...
Pregnant women can enjoy sex without endangering their unborn baby, research shows. There is no evidence that regular love-making increases the risk of a premature birth or other complications, a study says. The latest findings also contradict the beli...
Sleeping too little or for too long disrupts how you think and can age the brain by up to seven years, a study has warned. Getting less or more than the six to eight hours recommended sleep increases the speed of cognitive decline and affects abilities...
The issue of Boko Haram has since 2009 become a matter of great concern in Nigeria following accusation and reports that, members of the Islamic sect had been involved in violent activities bothering on unprovoked and murderous attacks on the public an...
Breast is an organ associated with women and other mammals. However, men sometimes develop breasts as a result of enlarged breast tissues. The condition, which is known as gynecomastia, can be quite embarrassing. RALIAT AHMED writes In hum...
Ahuraka Isa examines the 100 days in office of Justice Dahiru Musdapher as Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The appointment of Justice Dahiru Musdapher as the acting Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) by President Goodluck Jonathan last ...
The governorship flag bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the Febuary 11 election in Bayelsa State, Hon.Henry Seriake Dickson yesterday explained why he is responding to the claims by the camp of Bayelsa State Governor, Timipre Sylva on hi...
The chairman, Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN), Abuja Chapter, Sir Peter Okolo has commended the minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Senator Bala Mohammed over the initiation of the Accelerated Area Councils Title Re-i...
The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has called for the impeachment of President Goodluck Jonathan. The group hinged its call on what it described as the illegal constitution of the Christopher Kolade-led Subsidy Re-investment Trust...
As the protest against the removal of fuel subsidy by the Federal Government continues, a Fulani Socio-cultural group, Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore, yesterday directed its members across the country to stop selling cows. Speaking to journalists in M...
The President of the Nigerian Association of Miners (MAN), Sani Shehu, has described the unprecedented removal of fuel subsidy by the federal government on January 1, 2012, as radical and sudden. The President, who spoke in an exclusive telephone inter...
Workers under the aegis of the Nigeria Civil Service Union (NCSU) have said that workers will not dialogue with the Federal Government on the subject of fuel subsidy withdrawal. President of NCSU, Comrade Kiri Mohammed, who spoke with LEADERSHIP yester...
A suicide bomber targeting Shiite pilgrims in southern Iraq killed 30 people, just hours after a wave of bombings hit Shiite areas in Baghdad and killed 27 others, officials said. The coordinated attacks targeting Shiites bore the hallmarks of Sunni in...
A landslide tore through a small-scale gold mining site in the southern Philippines yesterday, killing at least 25 people and burying dozens more, months after government officials warned miners that the mountain above them was guaranteed to crumble. T...
Syrian authorities have released over 500 prisoners accused of involvement in anti-regime activities, state TV reported yesterday, in what appeared to be another gesture to comply with the Arab League plan to end the regime’s 9-month-old crackdow...