Leaders of the West African sub region on Saturday arrived in Mali, following the military coup that ousted the civilian leadership of that country. The ECOWAS...
Nigeria provides between 60 to 70 per cent of products under the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Trade Liberalisation Scheme, the Nigerian government has...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will Thursday hold an Extraordinary Summit on the current situation in Mali. A group of mutinous soldiers on...
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama said on Monday the Federal Government may approach the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) court for a...
Fire on Tuesday night destroyed a section of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Secretariat in the Asokoro District of Abuja. The inferno affected...
The President of Mali, Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, has approved the appointment of a new cabinet towards a government of national unity in a bid to resolve...
The leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Monday insisted that the Malian President, Ibrahim Keita, would not step aside as demanded...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday returned to Nigeria from Mali after the peace summit in the troubled West African country ended in deadlock. President Buhari and...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan has returned to Mali to continue his assignment for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The former Nigerian President was...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan, during the meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa on Tuesday, briefed him about the crisis in Mali. The former...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has appointed ex-President Goodluck Jonathan as a special envoy to lead its mediation mission in Mali. The ex-president’s...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has destroyed 10,000 kilograms of cannabis valued at over N1 billion in Lagos. Olugboyega Peters, the Comptroller I of the Western...
The Nigerian government has been ordered to pay the salaries and allowances of 244 soldiers dismissed in 2016. The order was given by the ECOWAS Court...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday faulted plans by Francophone countries that constitute the West Africa Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) to adopt a new currency, Eco,...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Monday endorsed the candidacy of Nigeria’s former Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr....
The ECOWAS Ministerial Coordination Committee on Transport, Logistics, and Trade, on Thursday, recommended a harmonized and gradual reopening of land, air, and sea borders for restoring...
President Muhammadu Buhari has lamented that the covid-19 pandemic was yet to reach its peak in the sub-region and warned against laxity in the fight against...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has launched legal action against Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state and the Government of President Muhammadu Buhari at the...
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed it is considering the now controversial Madagascar’s COVID-19 Organics cure for a clinical observation process as soon as possible....
The ECOWAS Commission has debunked reports that its health institution, West Africa Health Organisation has endorsed the COVID-19 cure developed by the Malagasy Institute of Applied...
Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) appointed President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the region’s fight against the spread of coronavirus last week....
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed concerns over the reported appointment of President Muhammadu Buhari as the ECOWAS Covid-19 Response Champion. The party said it...
A former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode has reacted to the appointment of President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the fight against Covid-19 in West Africa. He said...
West African leaders Thursday tapped President Muhammadu Buhari to lead the battle against the spread of the coronavirus pandemic in the sub-region. The Special Adviser to...
The Federal Government is currently buying more time ahead of the formal launching of the proposed West African common currency, Eco anticipated to take effect later...
The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has declared that the African Union Peace Fund should be structured for the internal support arrangements within the continent and...
Many mouths were left agape in surprise when President Muhammadu Buhari was recently quoted to have said that citizens must resist the urge to travel abroad...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday met behind closed- doors with the President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Akinwunmi Adesina, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja....
The President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Mr. Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, said on Saturday terrorism attacks increased by 80 percent in...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday held a bilateral meeting with the Presidents of other West African nations in Abuja. The meeting took place on the sidelines...
The Nigerian Senate on Tuesday resolved to conduct an investigation into the alleged closure of over 600 Nigerian shops and businesses by Ghanaian authorities. The Senate,...
President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Wednesday explained why the upper legislative chamber has yet to set up a committee on the review of the...
Nigeria has been ranked as one of five West Africa Countries topping the energy access status in the ECOWAS region with their population having access to...
A bureau de change operator, Adedeji Adelabu on Thursday told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja how an official of the Economic Community of West...
The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on Sunday denied that the closure of Nigeria’s borders will end on January 31, 2020 as contained in a leaked memo....
Nigeria recently partially closed its border with Benin in an effort to stem the smuggling of rice. It then went on to close its land borders...
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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday backed the Federal Government’s decision to close Nigeria’s borders with some neighbouring countries over illegal trade. The Comptroller-General of...
The Nigerian government has been asked to investigate and prosecute perpetrators of the January 2018 mass killings and destructions in some communities in Benue State. This...
Minister for Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama on Tuesday said Nigeria would take advantage of its position in the Forum of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday urged his counterparts in West African countries to unite and end the reign of terrorists in the region. Addressing Economic Community...
The Nigerian Government has been asked to sever diplomatic ties with South Africa over unwarranted attacks on Nigerians in the country. The immediate past deputy senate...
Kano State governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, on Wednesday distanced himself from an alleged ploy by some governors in Progressives Governors Forum to oust the National chairman...
The Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) on Monday announced that it has commenced e-registration of all migrants in all the 18 local government areas of Cross River...
President Muhammadu Buhari, who is the current ECOWAS Chairman, has called on Heads of State and Government in the West African sub-region to tackle insecurity head-on....
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila has promised speedy electoral reforms as the House commences its legislative duties. According to the Speaker, who...
Nigerians were either in their various homes, stadia, shopping malls, amusement centres or other places of their choice, because the federal government declared Wednesday, June 12,...
The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Lasun Yusuf on Monday expressed his readiness to take legal action against the speaker of the ECOWA parliament,...
The governor of Benue State, Samuel Ortom has allocated 59 hectares of land in his state to resettlement of Cameroonian refugees at Ikyogen Cattle Ranch in...
Nigerians have been urged to accept “in good faith” the outcome of the just concluded presidential and National Assembly elections staged on Saturday across the country....