A painful womb condition affecting two million women has been linked to a greater risk of ovarian cancer. Women suffering endometriosis are three times more likely to develop the disease, say researchers. A study has identified three types of ovarian c...
To what extent can poverty be a setback towards the success of blind persons? Our correspondents, Nanna Selkur and Rose Owota Adah, tell a moving story of the blind living in Karmajiji, Abuja. As one approaches this settlement, feelings of fear, insec...
Those who suffer from high blood pressure may not always need prescription medications to bring it down. By adhering strictly to lifestyle changes and some natural measures, high blood pressure and the risk of heart attack can be reduced. RALIAT ...
Optimism about Africa needs to be taken in fairly small doses, for things are still exceedingly bleak in much of the continent…Food production per person has slumped since independence in the 1960s. The average lifespan in some countries is unde...
The scarcity of aviation fuel also called JET AI which started penultimate week has persisted causing airlines to cancel, delay or reschedule their flights. The scarcity and high price of the product has been a source of concern to airlines and the Nig...
Activities on the floor of the Nigerian Stock Exchange(NSE) continued on the green trajectory, following price gains recorded by major blue chip companies causing market capitalisation to inch up further by N45billion. Specifically, at the&...
The activities of oil pipeline vandals pose potent threat to the successful operation of both the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr. Austen...
The Federal Government has received a $508.59 million World Bank grant for the control of erosion in worst hit areas across the country. The grant financing LEADERSHIP gathered, would be used to address the problem of gully erosion particularly in Edo,...
MTN Nigeria is set to improve its quality of services (QoS) with $1.4 billion (about N2.17 billion) investment for 2012 as it moves to address the increasing upsurge on data service segment due to use of smart phones and dongles for internet browsing w...
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that the estimated nine million Almajiris in Northern Nigeria be properly educated in order for them to contribute meaningfully to national development. Minister of State for Education, Mr. Ezenwo Wike, who made...
The Namibian government yesterday extended an invitation to the Nigerian government and its private sector to invest in Windhoek. The Namibian High Commissioner to Nigeria and Ghana, Selma Ashipala-Musavyi who made the call, also urged Nigerians to tak...
A new twist was added in the ongoing probe of the management of the pension fund in Nigeria as the Senate Panel investigating the process yesterday ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Abubakar to arrest and produce the Chairman, Pension R...
The Chairman of the Northern Traditional Rulers’ Council, and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, yesterday recounted the unprecedented challenges facing the Northern region, and concluded that, “the rising trend...
The Federal Government has beamed its search light on contractors handling power transmission and distribution projects across the country with a directive that any them who is unable to meet 50 per cent completion of his contract by June, 2012 w...
Mr David Ige, Executive Director (Gas and Power) at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), on Thursday reiterated the country's resolve to reduce gas flaring in the next two years. He said this at theAnnual Oloibiri Lecture Series of t...