The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have joined forces to empower West African youth with the skills and knowledge needed to safeguard the region’s cyberspace. A regional security hackathon held…
The ECOWAS Court of Justice (CCJ) has elected Cape Verde’s Justice Ricardo Gonçalves as its new President. It also elected Sierra Leone’s Justice Sengu Koroma as new Vice President, both for non-renewable four-year tenure. They were elected by the court’s…
Burkina Faso has made a significant move to formalize its exit from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) by issuing new biometric passports that notably exclude the bloc’s logo from their design. This action follows the recent military…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament convened on Monday in Banjul, The Gambia, to further the implementation of a pivotal protocol designed to facilitate the free movement of people, the right of residence, and the establishment of…
Speaker of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, Memounatou Ibrahima, says member states’ reinforcement of ECOWAS Free Movement protocol is crucial to fully realising the bloc’s integration. Ibrahima made this known at a delocalised meeting of the…
…Harps on regional cooperation in fight against corruption …Donates office building to NACIWA for permanent HQ President Bola Tinubu has called on ECOWAS member states to prioritise the creation of transparent and efficient governance structures in order to combat corruption…
President Bola Tinubu on Monday called on the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) to ratify and fully implement the ECOWAS Protocol Against Corruption. Tinubu, represented by the Vice-President Kashim Shettima, made the call at the 6th Annual General…
The Economic Community of West African States Parliament is stepping up diplomatic efforts to prevent Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso from leaving the regional bloc. The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, confirmed that parliamentary diplomacy mechanisms…
The Joint Committee of the ECOWAS Parliament has proposed new budget reforms for consideration by the subregional bloc’s leaders. The committees involved are Administration, Finance, Budget, Public Accounts, Macroeconomic Policy, and Economic Research. The lawmakers also recommended amending the 2016…
By Jimoh Olorede Exactly 41 days after his inauguration as the newly elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, on May 29, 2023, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, was also elected Chairman of the Economic Community of West African…
