The ECOWAS Parliament on Monday elected Sidie Mohammed Tunis from Sierra Leone as the new Speaker of the sub-regional parliament.
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President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday in Abuja said the issue of partial closure of Nigeria’s land border to goods from neighbouring countries will be determined by report of a tripartite committee made up of Nigeria, Benin and Niger Republic.
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project has dragged the government of Nigeria and Cross River State Government of Governor Ben Ayade to ECOWAS Court of Justice in Abuja “over the prolonged, arbitrary detention; unfair prosecution; persecution, and sham trial of journalist Agba Jalingo.”
The Nigerian Army on Friday completed pre-deployment training for 185 troops for peace keeping mission in Guinea Bissau.
The National Association of Nigerian Traders has advised the Federal Government and the Economic Community of West African States to address corruption and regional cross border trade challenges before adopting ECO Currency.
Onyeama, who made this known on Thursday in Abuja while speaking with newsmen, explained that Nigeria’s position on the single currency was agreed by the Economic Community of West African States Member States.
This was contained in a communique read by Mamadi Camara, the Minister for Economy and Finance of the Republic of Guinea, in Abuja on Thursday.
This is in line with the Commission’s 8-Point Agenda, one of the pillars of which focuses on Strategic Collaborations and Partnership towards accelerating digital access and skills development in the country.
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated his intention not to contest the 2023 presidential elections but determined to help strengthen the electoral process both in Nigeria and across Economic Community of West African States.
Today marks a new decade. It is a time of hope, optimism and fresh possibilities. We look forward as a nation to the 2020s as the opportunity to build on the foundations we have laid together on security, diversification of our economy and taking on the curse of corruption. These are the pledges on which I have been twice elected President and remain the framework for a stable, sustainable and more prosperous future.
The Federal Government says it is studying the situation on change of West African Economic and Monetary Union currency, Eco, to be used as ECOWAS single currency.
The decision was announced in a communique signed by the commission’s President, Jean-Claude Kassi at the end of the 56th ordinary session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of ECOWAS, held in Abuja.
On December 29, 2019, it will be exactly four years that you have been re-arrested by the operatives of the Department of State Services. Since that disheartening day in 2015, you have been clamped in illegal detention, in utter disregard for the rule of law and unconcealed contempt for court orders directing your release from unlawful custody. (https://cutt.ly/dasukibails)
The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Jean-Claude Brou, says the region’s economy is steadily growing, reaching 3.3 per cent in 2019, which shows a positive achievement.
President Muhammadu Buhari says instability in State of Libya is a recurring threat to the Sahel and Sub-Saharan Africa, and expressed concern over the growing effect of the crisis on many lives.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in Abuja held bilateral talks with some leaders of Economic Community of West African States.
The resolution of the Senate to wade into the matter followed a motion sponsored by Senator Ifeanyi Ubah on “The need to investigate alleged ill treatment and injustices suffered by Nigerian Traders and Business owners in Ghana”.
Dangana, an Executive Assistant to the Financial Controller, ECOWAS Commission Secretariat, Abuja, is under prosecution by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on a 15-count charge bordering on criminal diversion of funds, misappropriation and money laundering to the tune of over N587.7 million.
Third prosecution witness, Adedeji Jide Adelabu, a bureau de change operator, on Thursday told Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja how Mohammed Dangana, a staff of the Economic Community of West African States, instructed him to exchange and transfer millions of naira and foreign currencies to his personal accounts.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Godffrey Onyema, stated the position of the Federal Government on Monday after a committee meeting.