Nigeria fulfills 100% financial obligation to ECOWAS for the first time in 19 years
For the first time in nearly two decades, Nigeria has fully met its financial obligations to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), paying 100 percent of its community levy.
Mali, Niger, B/Faso absent as ECOWAS parliament mulls mediation C’ttee
The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS Parliament, yesterday mulled the appointment of an ad hoc mediation committee to get Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso absent at the extraordinary session, to rescind their decision on membership of the parliament.
Tinubu to ECOWAS: We should reject forces creating division
PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu called on the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, member states to come together, strengthen ties, and reject forces bent on causing division within the community.
Senator Natasha, DSP Jibrin, others inaugurated as ECOWAS Parliament members
Lawmaker representing Kogi Central senatorial district, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (Kogi Central/PDP), alongside Deputy Senate President Barau Jibrin, amongst others have been inaugurated as members of the sixth Legislature of the ECOWAS parliament.
Tinubu backs calls for direct election for ECOWAS Parliamentarians
President Bola Tinubu has pledged his support for a proposal for the direct election of members into the parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
ECOWAS Court dismisses suit seeking to compel Nigeria to support Haiti’s AU bid
The ECOWAS Court has dismissed an application filed by two Non- Governmental Organizations (NGOs) seeking to compel Nigeria to support Haiti’s membership application to join the African Union (AU).
Nigeria tasks ECOWAS on resolving issues inhibiting subregional trading in palm oil
He, however, added that this should take into account the economic conditions of respective ECOWAS member states.
Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso recorded 3,500 terrorist attacks, 7,000 deaths- ECOWAS
“Particularly the Sahel countries; in 2023 alone, over 3,500 terrorist attacks were recorded..”
Military coup: No compulsion in ECOWAS membership — FG
“It’s one thing to pronounce that you’ve left; it’s another to really disengage from ECOWAS itself because every citizen of ECOWAS carries a passport. (An ECOWAS passport guarantees visa-free travel within the bloc).”
Will the humble pie heal ECOWAS? By Azu Ishiekwene
THE resolutions following the Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of Government of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, at the recently concluded summit of Heads of State and Government in Abuja, were truly extraordinary. Seven months after threatening to deploy force in Niger, one of the four delinquent states – the others being […]
ECOWAS’s furtive back-track
THE Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, recently swallowed its pride and reversed its sanctions against member-states now under military juntas. Currently, five ECOWAS countries, all French-speaking, are under military rule. They are Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Chad. They form an unbroken arc across the Sahel. Mauritania, one of the few countries […]
