President Muhammadu Buhari will on Thursday depart Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to participate in the 36th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, AU. The theme of the AU Summit is “Acceleration of the African Continental Free…
President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria is working closely with ECOWAS to deal with insecurity in the West African region as well as implementing strategies to contain the spate of unconstitutional changes in government. The president spoke while receiving Letters of…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said Nigeria and ECOWAS member states are implementing strategies to halt coups in the region. A statement by Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Femi Adesina, said Buhari spoke on Thursday while receiving…
The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) in Bayelsa, on Thursday raised the alarm on the increased use of ECOWAS Travel Certificates (ETC) by human traffickers to evade suspicion and arrest. The NIS said it uncovered the new strategy used by human…
The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Sunday, described as “urgent” the need to fully operationalise the Regional Action Plan on the Fight Against Terrorism and other acts of criminality in West Africa. He also called on the new…
Mr Laurent Tossou, Chairman, ECOWAS Regional Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERERA) has assured ECOWAS citizens of cost-effective, green energy. This is coming after the launch of the second phase of the Electricity Market in 2023. Tossou made this known while addressing…
The Federal Government has inaugurated the National Consultative Committee on Renewable Energy statistics (NCC on res). Speaking at the opening ceremony of the National Energy Statistics workshop in Abuja, the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr Adeleke Mamora, said…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has filed a lawsuit against the government of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), over “the failure to probe the operations of illegal oil pipelines between 2001 and 2022, to name and prosecute…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) on Tuesday promised to fight against the illicit proliferation of weapons in the region. The UNIDIR Director, Mr Robin Geiss represented by Deputy…
The 15-member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Friday in Abuja came together to drive export promotion in the sub-region. Dr Ezra Yakusak, President, ECOWAS Trade Promotion Organisation (TPO) Network said this at the closing…
