President Muhammadu Buhari has commended collective efforts of nations towards tackling security challenges across the globe, and within Nigeria, urging more collaboration to check terrorism, banditry and insurgency. The president gave the commendation when he received Letters of Credence of Canadian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Amb. James Christoff and...
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The European Union, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPC) and the Joint Task Force (JTF) Operation Delta Safe, on Friday visited an illegal refining site in Rivers, to inspect the impacts on the environment. The refinery, already destroyed by the JTF is located in Ahoada West Local Government...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Monday said significant progress is being made on the Lagos-Abidjan Corridor and on issues around the movement of goods and services. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said thThe vice president disclosed this while interacting with newsmen after the...
………As West Africa leaders commends Nigeria’s contributions By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – As President Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau assumes chairmanship of the West African regional body, ECOWAS, alongside a newly composed Commission, there are high expectations regarding the output of the body and the leaders must work harder to...
The European Union (EU) has inaugurated the ‘Team Europe Initiative (TEI) Nigeria Green Economy’ project aimed at stimulating sustainable climate-smart agriculture and renewable energy for economic growth and diversification. The EU ambassador to Nigeria and Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Ms Samuela Isopi, unveiled the project at...
The House of Representatives has demanded justification for Nigeria’s huge financial contribution to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) which amounted to 1.177billion dollars in 16 years. The House mandated its committees on Inter-parliamentary Relations and ECOWAS Parliament as well as Foreign Affairs to determine the justification....
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB), says it is implementing infrastructure projects worth 11.5 billion dollars in West Africa. Ms Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, the Director-General, West Africa Regional Development and Business Delivery Office of the Bank, said this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB), says it is working with ECOWAS through the West African Power Pool (WAPP) to develop the energy market. According to the bank, the aim is to ensure improved quality and quantity of energy supplied to West Africa. Ms Marie-Laure Akin-Olugbade, the Director-General, West...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – A National Centre for the Coordination of Early Warning and Response Mechanism has been established, with the signing of Executive Order 12 by President Muhammadu Buhari. Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Office of the Vice President, disclosed...
The President, Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Jean-Claude Brou, on Tuesday, enjoined citizens of member States to be vigilant about monkeypox. Brou gave the advice while presenting the commission’s report on the implementation of the Community Work Programme at this year’s First Ordinary Session of the...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has given approval for the NNPC to enter into agreement with ECOWAS for the construction of the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline. Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, briefed State House correspondents after FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday...
The European Union (EU) has reaffirmed its support for the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) to stabilise electricity network in some parts of the country. Ms Inga Stefanowicz, the Team Leader, EU’s Delegation to Nigeria and ECOWAS on Green and Digital Economy, gave the affirmation in an interview with...
As part of strengthening and enhancing security in the West African sub-region, the Nigerian Army has deployed 173 officers and soldiers to Guinea Bissau on an ECOWAS peacekeeping Operation. The Chief of Operations, Army Headquarters, Major General Oluwafemi Akinjobi, announced this on Thursday at the graduation and pre-deployment training...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will depart Lagos on Friday for Accra, Ghana, to represent Nigeria at an Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government. Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement in Abuja, said the summit would focus on the political situation in Mali...
By BENJAMIN ORISEMEKE, Abuja – To ease transportation stress across the ECOWAS sub region, the African Development Bank (AfDB), has secured $15.6bn for the construction of the Lagos-Abidjan highway corridor. AfDB President Dr Akinwumi Adesina, who made the announcement Thursday at the 2021 Africa Investment Forum virtual boardroom closing...
The Federal Government has donated one million dollars through the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to the World Food Programme (WFP). The donation was to address various forms of humanitarian crises in the country in 2021. This is contained in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, jointly...
Nigeria, ECOWAS support WFP’s food and nutrition assistance to vulnerable families with US1m in 2021
Nigeria, ECOWAS support WFP’s food and nutrition assistance to vulnerable families with US1m in 2021
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) received the sum of US$1 million in 2021 from the Government of Nigeria as part of an ECOWAS humanitarian assistance to the Nigerian Government for victims of violent conflicts in North West and North East Nigeria. The fund from ECOWAS was granted...
Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Monrovia advised ECOWAS to deploy the use of technology fully in electoral processes to conduct free and fair elections in member states. Jonathan gave the advice while speaking as one of the panelists at the on-going First Extra Ordinary Session of the...
Ahead of the 2023 general elections, former President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday allayed fears of Nigeria’s disintegration, saying the country will still remain. He stated this during the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)’s Council of the WISE strategic retreat and planning workshop which held in Lagos. “When...
The Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nana Akufo-Addo on Thursday said the coup in Mali was “contagious” and had led to subsequent coups in the region. Akufo-Addo explained that Mali’s coup in August 2020 was followed by a second military coup in the West...