President Buhari, who was represented by the Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria Godwin Emefiele, issued the warning on Tuesday during the 5th meeting of the Presidential Task Force on ECOWAS Currency Programme in Accra, Ghana
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The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Marcel Alain de Souza, said this while presenting the Status Report on the State of the Community to the Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja
An excise duty is a type of tax charged on goods produced within the country, as opposed to customs duties charged on goods from outside the country.
Declaring open the event, Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Prof. Isaac Adewole, described tobacco as the legal drug that kills its users even when exactly used as intended by the manufacturers
According to him, this issue is the biggest challenge to Nigeria’s Foreign Policy since the civil war
GIABA’s Information Manager in Nigeria, Timothy Melaye, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos that the organisation would bring together 50 Nigerian religious leaders for that purpose next month
The King, who initiated the call, asked after the President’s health and expressed satisfaction at his rate of improvement
Troops from Gambia’s neighbour, Senegal, as well as from Ghana and Nigeria will make up the smaller operation, whose mandate begins on February 21 and will last for three months
Marcel de Souza said this while briefing members of the diplomatic corps and partner organisations on the political situation in The Gambia on Tuesday in Abuja
The master-stroke by the Buhari mediation team came when Yahya Jammeh was presented with a fait accompli, with the swearing-in of Adama Barrow as the legitimate President of the Gambia in Dakar, Senegal in the premises of the Gambian Embassy!
Jammeh, who ruled the small West African country for 22 years, flew into exile late on Saturday to Equatorial Guinea
The former president left Banjul on Saturday to go into exile after he was pressurised by the ECOWAS to rescind his earlier decision not to accept the outcome of December 1 presidential election
The former governor made these remarks on Sunday in his Abuja residence while hosting a cross-section of Gambian investors led by Edrissa Jobe
This followed a meeting between Jammeh and the presidents of Mauritania and Guinea on Friday
Troops have been told to halt their advance until the deadline passes
Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel Olonisakin, said the Service Chiefs updated the President on the country’s military operations at home and abroad
The minister gave the explanation in a statement signed on his behalf by Brigadier General Muhammed Ahmed in Abuja on Thursday
The troops are expected to search for long-term ruler, Yahya Jammeh, who refuses to give up power despite losing the December 1, 2016 presidential election to Barrow
This followed the refusal of Yahya Jammeh to relinquish power after losing in a December 1, 2016 presidential election to Barrow
Barrow took the oath at the country’s embassy in Senegal