Tag: Ecowas
Ebola: UNICEF makes case for Liberia, Sierra-Leone, others
Mrs Jane Giogh, United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF) representative in Nigeria, has appealed to countries with adequate human resources…
US, ECOWAS sign pact on security in Abuja
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and US Agency for International Development (USAID) has signed agreement on countering…
The Infantryman And The War Against Terrorism
By Akido Agenro The situation in the north eastern part of Nigeria is steadily deteriorating into a major internal conflict…
ECOWAS defence chiefs to meet in Ghana
The ECOWAS Committee of Chiefs of Defence Staff (CCDS) will hold its 34th Ordinary Session from 9 to 11 September…
Anxiety Over 60 Ebola Contacts In Rivers
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt There are fears in Rivers State, southern Nigeria, following government’s inability to track down 60 persons said…
Ebola Scare In Port Harcourt Hospitals
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Patients admitted in the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, UPTH, have hurriedly left the hospital after…
New ECOWAS brown card to be operational in Jan 2015
The Nigerian Insurers Association (NIA) on Tuesday said the implementation of the new Brown Card for Economic Community of West…
Police Affairs minister blasts FG’s critics
The Minister of Police Affairs, Abdul Adesiyan, has described people accusing the Federal Government of not doing enough to address…
Boko Haram: Jonathan, 6 ECOWAS Leaders Meet
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan and his counterparts in six other countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)…
Boko Haram Won’t Hinder Foreign Investment —Consultant
The present state of insecurity in the country caused by the Boko Haram sect will not hamper foreign investment in…
ECOWAS to assist Nigeria on counter-terrorism – Mahama
ECOWAS leaders had decided to invoke the community’s protocols on counter-terrorism to defeat terrorism and support Nigeria’s efforts to rescue…
Mahama Writes To Jonathan On Boko Haram
President John Dramani Mahama has called on member states of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to help…
Africa’s Declining Capacity To Manage Conflicts
By Makinde Collins At a recent debate in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, organized by Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, a political think-tank…
Ibadan Toy: Why The U.S.?
By Olawale Salau The end of year 2013 was an open letter season in Nigeria. It is pertinent that we…
No, Obasanjo Should Not Be Your Navigator —Soyinka
Professor Wole Soyinka,has reacted to a statement credited to Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu that APC would like General Obasanjo…
ECOWAS approves single customs bloc
Leaders of the 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) agreed on Friday to implement a single customs tariff…
There Are Insufficient Trade, Industrial And Technological Services In The Country
Prior to his present appointment as Minister of Trade and Industries, Alhaji Osman Gboie Kamara was a presidential aspirant of…
Nigeria Targets 750k Jobs In Agriculture
The federal government has targeted to generate a total of 750,000 job through the proposed ‘Nagropreneur programme’ that would be…
Nigeria to withdraw troops in Mali, after shabby deal
Nigeria plans to withdraw some of its troops from Mali because they are needed back home, where the country is…
Nigeria’s senior cop, 147 others to serve in Mali
A Nigerian deputy commissioner of police, Subair Olusola Kamar, has been appointed by the ECOWAS Commission as the Deputy Police…
We Should Learn From Ghana Experience
Ambassador Musiliu Obanikoro, immediate past Nigeria High Commissioner to Ghana, who was recently nominated by the Economic Community of West…
West African defence chiefs talk Mali force
West African defence chiefs met in Abidjan on Saturday to discuss “boosting” an African force in Mali aimed at supporting…
Jonathan set for Abidjan talks on Mali
Nigeria’s President Goodluck Jonathan will travel to Abidjan, Cote D’Ivoire tomorrow for an Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of…
West African leaders to meet over Mali
An emergency summit of leaders from West African bloc ECOWAS has been set for Wednesday in Abidjan as countries in…
West African troops deployed to Mali to fight Islamists
The chairman of west African bloc ECOWAS on Friday authorised the immediate deployment of troops to Mali, a statement said…
And Miss ECOWAS 2012 is…
Mariam Diallo (C) of Guinea poses after being crowned Miss ECOWAS (Cedeao) 2012 with first runner-up Jirzah Ellen Evora (L)…
ECOWAS agrees on 3,300 strong force for Mali
West African leaders at an emergency summit on Sunday agreed on a 3,300-strong force to wrest control of northern Mali…
ECOWAS defence chiefs to meet over Mali
Desmond Utomwen/Abuja West Africa’s defence chiefs will hold an extraordinary session in Abidjan from 14 September 2012 to finalise the…
Malians rally for peace in Bamako
Up to 60,000 people gathered Sunday for a peace rally in Mali, which was split in two after Islamists wrested…
Ghana denies tough trading law to Nigerians
The Ghanaian Government has refuted allegations that Nigerian and ECOWAS citizens in Ghana are expected to pay 300,000 dollars and…