The Head of ECOWAS Election Observer Mission to Nigeria, Mrs Ellen Jonhson Sirleaf, is supervising a delegation of election monitors to 8 polling centres and Durumi...
Ellen Johnson SirLeaf, head of ECOWAS observation mission, says Nigeria has to get it right in the February 16 presidential and legislative elections because West Africa...
President Muhammadu Buhari says he has made a pledge to conduct free, fair and credible elections in 2019. He made the comment on Saturday during his...
With the National Assembly threatening to veto President Muhammadu Buhari on the Electoral Act Amendment Bill, the controversy seems to be growing. President Buhari insists that...
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that he will not allow Nigeria to be “big for nothing”. The president’s statement was in regard to Nigeria’s financial commitments...
Foremost human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the new electoral act amendment bill into law. He said the bill...
The upcoming handover of a $4.5 billion Seme border facility to Nigeria and the Republic of Benin has increased hopes of smoother trade across West Africa...
By Kolawole Olaniyan…. President Muhammadu Buhari was elected in 2015 after emphasising his track record of tackling corruption, and his pledge to stop public officials from...
For not giving her access to justice, the Economic Community of West African States Court of Justice has ordered the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay...
Two years after the mega joint-border project by the European Union (EU) and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has been completed at Seme border...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Abuja gave reasons why he was not inclined towards signing the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) among ECOWAS countries. According to...
By Reuben Abati… I was in Morocco recently, about 20 years after I last visited Timbuktu, Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat and Laayoune. I was quite impressed to...
Gambian President Adama Barrow Tuesday said President Muhammadu Buhari was key to the ouster of Yahya Jammeh, former president of the country, during the political crisis...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has announced plans for sub-regional development projects worth 29.66 billion dollars from 2018 to 2022. President of the...
Nigeria’s Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has emerged the new Chairman of the Board of Governors of the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID). She...
There are strong indications that the renewed insecurity in parts of Nigeria may prevent the country from accessing the European Union (EU) €26 billion aid for...
The Acting President Yemi Osinbajo has called on Nigerians to shun divisive acts and work with the government to banish poverty from the country. Speaking on...
Senate President, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Wednesday, called on leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to resist ongoing manipulation of its...
Following complaints from some ECOWAS-member countries that their citizens for intra border trades were being denied free entry, against free border entry protocol agreement, the organisation...
Despite efforts by the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) to ensure that a common and affordable roaming tariff is achievable within member states, there...
President-elect, Adama Barrow is set to return to Gambia on Thursday as he seeks to take hold of power after the 22-year reign of exiled former...
By Reuben Abati… I have very vivid memories of my last visit to The Gambia. This was in 2013 when President Goodluck Jonathan paid am two-day...
The deal which led to an agreement that convinced Gambia’s longtime ruler Yahya Jammeh to flee into exile is not inclusive of immunity, so says leaders...
Gambia’s long-time leader Yahya Jammeh has finally accepted to step down following last-ditch diplomatic efforts made by the leaders of Guinea and Mauritania who both arrived...
Disgraced former President Yahya Jammeh has one more chance to prevent bloodshed and avoid a violent removal from office. With troops already on ground inside The...
Scores of Gambians are beginning to leave the shores of their country in droves with fears on the rise that President Yahya Jammeh’s attempt to overturn...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his Deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and chairman, Senate committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes, Chukwuka Utazi, on Thursday, clashed over the deployment...
By Joseph Edgar… Nigerians in their enthusiasm are edging on our President to send troops. Everybody is feeling a sense of de ja vu, it will...
The Vice President of Gambia Isatou Njie-Saidy has resigned her appointment following the political chaos caused by the refusal of President Yahya Jammeh to step down...
The Gambia’s National Assembly jolted ECOWAS member countries on Monday as it announced extension of President Yahya Jammeh’s tenure by three months beginning from Wednesday. Jammeh...
A Nigerian warship vessel dubbed the NNS Unity – is currently sailing off the coast of Ghana as it makes it way to Gambia in a...
The fear of an imminent war due to President Yayeh Jammeh’s refusal to step down as the country’s president has led to a mass exodus of...
Rising after a one-day summit in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, ECOWAS leaders decided they will visit Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Wednesday in a second attempt...
Rising from a meeting among regional leaders in Ghana’s capital Accra, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told reporters on Saturday that the ECOWAS regional bloc did...
In a bid to stay in the good books of the European Union (EU), Nigeria has agreed to reduce import duties for about 170 items by...
General Ousman Badjie, Gambia’s army chief has pledged his support for President Yahya Jammeh in the face of a possible regional military intervention by ECOWAS to...
Defiant President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh has declared while delivering a New Year’s speech that he is ready to defend his country against external aggression after...
In the discharge of his mandate as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mediator for The Gambia, President Muhammadu Buhari has activated the process...
Though Senegal is to lead a planned military intervention in Gambia if its president, Yahya Jammeh, fails to step down when his mandate expires on January...
Defiant Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has condemned mediation efforts by the African regional bloc ECOWAS aimed at making him see reason to step down from office....
West African leaders resolved at the end of an ECOWAS leader’s summit in Abuja at the weekend to ensure to uphold Gambia’s vote results. They said...
Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia urged leaders at the bloc’s summit in Abuja on Saturday to...
Gambia’s President Yayha Jammeh has not shifted grounds concerning his stance on the outcome of the last elections as African leaders failed to reach a deal...
President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Banjul, the Gambia Tuesday morning to meet with the country’s President, Yahya Jammeh, who lost the presidential election penultimate week. The Nigerian...
By Reuben Abati… When President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia conceded defeat after the December 1, Presidential elections in that West African country of 1.9 million...
Moves are being made to prevail upon incumbent Gambian President Yahyah Jammeh who surprisingly rejected the outcome of the last presidential election citing serious anomalies while...
The much expected adoption of a single currency by ECOWAS countries will not be feasible till 2020, when the economic woes facing Nigeria may have receded,...
Notwithstanding the biting economic reality occasioned by the current recession in the country, Nigeria has doled out a whooping $54 million as part payment of its...
Despite the economic downturn caused largely by fallen prices of oil in the international market, President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria will fulfill its obligations to the...
Statement by His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, President Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria, at the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, USA...