The two organisations made the commendation in a communique issued at the end of the 22nd ECOWAS-EU political meeting on Friday in Abuja.
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Shehu who spoke on the sidelines of the ongoing Second Ordinary Session of the Parliament on Friday, said that many Nigerians were now focused on returning as lawmakers with the General Elections coming in 2019.
The Federal government has deployed drones in the fight against insurgency in the Northeast part of Nigeria.
Nigerian leading human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has called on President Muhammadu Buhari and other leaders of the member states of the Economic Community of West African States to “comply with judgments and orders
The International Labour Organisation and Economic Community of West African States have charged member-states to implement laws on child labour and trafficking.
Secondus, who spoke when he hosted an election observer team from the Economic Community of West African States, led by Mohammed Conteh, also expressed fear about the Independent National Electoral Commission, which he said was not capable of conducting free, fair and credible elections next year.
Brou said this while presenting the Community Work Programme at the ongoing Second Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament on Wednesday in Abuja.
Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, made the assertion in a keynote address at the 2018 pre-conference workshop of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists in Lagos on Monday.
President Jose Mario Vaz of Guinea Bissau on Thursday at the Presidential Villa, briefed President Muhammadu Buhari on the forthcoming general elections in that country.
Chioma Nwana of Social Affairs and Gender Department, ECOWAS, stated this at the First Africa Regional Conference of the Santa Marta Group in collaboration with the Catholic Caritas Foundation of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.
The President of NUTAG, Chukwuemeka Nnaji, said this in a telephone conversation with the News Agency of Nigeria from Kumasi Ghana on Thursday.
Akufo-Addo said this on Wednesday while receiving President Muhammadu Buhari’s Special Envoy to Ghana, led by Foreign Affairs Minister, Geofrey Onyeama.
INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, disclosed this when he received a delegation of ECOWAS Pre-Election Fact Finding Mission, led by the Chairman of Sierra Leone’s National Electoral Commission, Mohamed Conteh, on Monday in Abuja.
She gave the assurance at the opening of the fourth meeting of the ECOWAS Finance Ministers on the consolidation of Economic Community of West African State, Customs Union on Friday in Abuja.
Onyeama said this when Mohamed Ibn Chambas, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel, led a delegation to visit him in Abuja.
Foreign Affairs Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, says that Federal Government has approved 500,000 dollars, 350 electoral kits and seven vehicles to facilitate successful conduct of November 18 Guinea Bissau legislative election.
Dr. Siga Jagne, Commissioner for ECOWAS Social Affairs and Gender, made this assertion on Thursday in Abuja during a roundtable organised by the ECOWAS Commission and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
The leader of the delegation, Ambassador Keti Karlsen, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria after their meeting with the running mate of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Candidate, Peter Obi, on Wednesday in Abuja.
They made the plea at the official handover of the new Economic Community of West African States Border Post by President Buhari, at Seme-Krake and Neope-Akanu in Badagry.
Nigeria and Republic of Benin on Tuesday strengthened their bi-lateral relationship with the formal opening of the new Economic Community of West African States Joint Border Post at Seme-Krake, Badagry, Lagos State.