By Mark Longyen The ECOWAS Court Women’s Forum has called on West African women to always seek redress at the ECOWAS Court of Justice for gender-based violence and discrimination. The forum’s President, Mrs Frances Ibanga, gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja.Continue Reading
By Mark Longyen, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established by its founding fathers on May 28, 1975 with the aim of fostering regional economic integration, mutual cooperation, and political stability among its member states. The creation of the subregional bloc wasContinue Reading
By Mark Longyen Air Cdre Sampson Eyekosi, Chairman, ECOWAS Standing Force (ESF) Logistics Concept and Depot Policies, says the force will leverage technology to tackle terrorism and violent extremism in the subregion. Eyekosi disclosed this at the closing ceremony of a validation meeting on the ECOWAS standby force’s logistics conceptContinue Reading
Insecurity By Sumaila Ogbaje Chief of the Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshall Hassan Abubakar, says the recent withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali from ECOWAS has placed more burden on the Nigerian military. Abubakar said this at the opening of the First Quarter Meeting with Branch Chiefs, Air OfficersContinue Reading
By Mark Longyen ECOWAS has urged experts from member states to develop a comprehensive logistics concept and depot policies for operation of the bloc’s standby force (ESF). Amb. Abdel-Fatau Musah, ECOWAS Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, gave the charge at a validation meeting on the ESF logistics conceptContinue Reading
By Mark Longyen The ECOWAS Court has dismissed claims brought against Nigeria by two Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) over the destruction of property, health and environment by the 2012 and 2022 Lagdo Dam floodings. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the applicants, Incorporated Trustees of Prince and Princess CharlesContinue Reading
By Mark Longyen The ECOWAS Court has ordered Nigeria to pay two million naira compensation each to 26 people who were forcibly evicted from various communities in Lagos and Rivers between 2004 and 2013. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the applicants, Mr Edwin Lenyie and 25 othersContinue Reading
By Mark Longyen Dr Omar Touray, ECOWAS Commision President, has called on Turkey to step up its support to the subregional body’s efforts toward curbing the scourge of terrorism in West Africa. Touray made the plea when the outgoing Turkish Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, Hidayet Bayraktar, paid him aContinue Reading
By Mark Longyen The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says it will continue to engage with Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, in spite of their formal withdrawal from the bloc on Wednesday. Dr Omar Touray, the President of the commission, made this known at a news conference inContinue Reading
Exit By Mark Longyen The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says the withdrawal of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS becomes effective from Jan. 29th. The commission’s spokesperson, Joel Ahofodji, in a statement on Wednesday, explained that it is in line with the decision of the ECOWASContinue Reading
