In a move that will redefine Africa’s role in the global technology landscape, Nigerian tech investors have said the country seeks to be a semiconductor manufacturing powerhouse — staking its place in the $1.2trillion global microchip industry.  Driven by growing demand for smartphones, electric vehicles, data centers, and renewable energy systems, the global semiconductor race […]

Human rights lawyer and counsel to detained IPOB leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, Aloy Ejimakor, has urged Nigerians to rise against what he described as the “illegal and unconstitutional” prosecution of his client by the Nigerian government. In a statement made available to SaharaReporters on Saturday, Ejimakor argued that the continued trial of Kanu is “a

Multiple security sources familiar with the incident noted that the suspects were believed to be couriers for a politically exposed person (PEP), although their exact identities and destination were not immediately disclosed. Security operatives at the Murtala Muhammed Airport (MMA1) in Lagos State have reportedly arrested a group of passengers caught travelling with a staggering

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana, SAN, has vowed to assemble a team of lawyers to launch legal action against multinational oil companies that have polluted and abandoned their host communities in the Niger Delta. Falana, who spoke in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, during the Ken Saro-Wiwa 30th Memorial Lecture on Friday, said it was unacceptable

The United States President Donald Trump on Friday sacked thousands of government employees, blaming opposition Democrats for forcing his hand amid the continuing government shutdown.  According to White House officials, the mass layoffs affect key agencies including the Treasury Department, the Department of Health, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), the Departments of Education and Commerce,

Thousands of Palestinians were seen streaming north along Gaza’s devastated coastline on Saturday, trekking on foot, in cars and on donkey carts, as a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas appeared to hold under the first phase of a United States-brokered peace agreement. The truce, aimed at ending two years of brutal conflict that has killed

   

Students of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE), Delta State have blocked the busy East–West Road in protest after a leaked internal memo revealed plans by the school management to increase tuition fees by over 100 percent. The controversial document,  reportedly emanating from the Office of the Registrar,  proposed that final-year students’ fees