Revenue generation not behind border closure – Finance Minister
Amaechi Ogbonna and Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Washington DC The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, has said ...
Tag: west africa
Ebola: ECOWAS calls for vigilance
Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has said it is monitoring the outbreak of Ebola ...
Nigerian airlines lament exorbitant levies paid to fly West African routes
Louis Ibah Nigerian airlines operating commerical flights within West Africa are alleging that they are levied exorbitant charges by countries ...
West African coastal states lose N250 billion to pirates yearly – Report
Philip Nwosu, Lagos West African coastal states are collectively losing N250 billion ($ 818.1 million) to pirates operating within the waters ...
Lake Chad Commission: Heads of state meet on June 12 to talk terrorism
Juliana Taiwo-Obalonye, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari and his colleagues of the Lake Chad Basin Commission (LCBC) will meet on June ...
Buhari charges ECOWAS security chiefs on transborder crime
Molly Kilete, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has called on police and security chiefs from the Economic Community of West Africa ...
UNHCR commends Ortom over Cameroonian refugees
Rose Ejembi, Makurdi The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has commended Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State for ...
UNICEF convenes global meeting on open defecation
NAN The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is meeting with key players in sanitation, among other stakeholders in West Africa, to ...
Why I’ll be visiting Nigeria, others — U.S. Assistant Secretary
NAN The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of African Affairs, Amb. Tibor Nagy Jr., says he cannot ...
Institutionalising the War Against Corruption – New approaches to assets tracing and recovering (4)
Nigeria has legislation to prevent illicit acquisition of assets but one thing most lacking is a lack of provisions for ...
