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February 6, 2021 No Responses

Court Orders C/River To Repay $6.4m To ECOWAS Bank

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered the government of Cross River State to repay the sum of US$6,455,846 to the ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID). In its ruling on Friday, the court also ordered the Nigerian State...

July 9, 2020 No Responses

ECOWAS Court Gets Legal Instrument To Enforce Judgments In Ghana

The ECOWAS Court of Justice has received the instrument designating Ghana’s Attorney-General and Minister for Justice as the Competent National Authority for the enforcement of the decisions of the court in the Republic of Ghana. A statement issued by the...

June 18, 2020 No Responses

African Association Of Cross Border Trade Seeks Collaboration With NSC

The African Association of Cross Border Trade has called for collaboration with the Nigerian Shippers’ Council in the area of trade facilitation amongst ECOWAS countries, expansion of and compilation of trade statistics on Cross Border Trade. ...

April 8, 2020 No Responses

COVID-19: ECOWAS Distributes Chloroquine For Member States

The West African States (ECOWAS) has ordered over one million kits for member states to help fight the coronavirus pandemic. The new order,according to the sub-regional body, is to supplement its ongoing distribution of other kits and medicines including...

December 23, 2019 No Responses

AfDB Explains $20bn Investments’ Portfolio In ECOWAS Region

The African Development Bank (AfDB) portfolio investments in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) region is 20 billion dollars. This is contained in a statement released by the bank’s Communication and External Relations Department on Sunda...

July 1, 2019 No Responses

ECOWAS Adopts ECO As Name Of Single Currency

The leadership of Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) heads of State and Government at the weekend in Abuja, Nigeria adopted ECO as the name of the single currency to be issued in January 2020. The leaders at their...

June 30, 2019 No Responses

Buhari Steps Down As ECOWAS Chairman, Seeks Common Security Strategy In W/Africa

Insecurity challenges in the West African subregion can only be effectively tackled if a common strategy is adopted by member states, President Muhammadu Buhari has said. Meanwhile, the Economic Community Of West African States ( ECOWAS) heads of s...

June 4, 2019 No Responses

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L-R, Director General, West African Monetary Institute Ghana, Dr Ngozi Egbuna, Commissioner, Industry and Private Sector Promotion ECOWAS Commission Mr Mamado Traore, Acting Director General, Securities and Exchange Commission Ms Mary Uduk and Chief Exec...

October 19, 2018 No Responses

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Representatives of ECOWAS Securities and Exchange Commission in Abuja on Thursday in Abuja

July 31, 2018 No Responses

Buhari Seeks Increased Inter-Regional Collaboration

President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in Lome made a strong appeal for inter-regional collaboration on maritime security, the fight against terrorism and other crimes through effective border control. The President made the call while contributing to the conside...

May 18, 2018 No Responses

We Remain Committed To The Stability Of West Africa’

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said his administration will continue to work with ECOWAS countries to ensure stability in the sub-region as cross-border crimes pose more challenges to people and governments. “ECOWAS is doing its best, and as yo...

January 23, 2017 No Responses

Gambia: Dogara lauds Buhari, ECOWAS leaders

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt Hon Yakubu Dogara has commended President Muhammadu Buhari and leaders of the Economic Community of West African States for the role they played in averting major political crisis in the Gambia. In a...

January 1, 2017 No Responses

Buhari begins actualisation of ECOWAS mandate

In the discharge of his mandate as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mediator for The Gambia, President Muhammadu Buhari has activated the process for the execution of his task. One of the outcomes of the just-concluded ECOWAS Summit...