Terrorism: ECOWAS tables financing of five-year action plan
Aidoghie Paulinus, Abuja The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is considering the financing of a five-year action plan ...
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Border Closure: Official reports misleading, says expert
Chinelo Obogo, Lagos A Professor of History and border expert, Anthony Asiwaju, has condemned the unilateral border closure policy of ...
Upsurge in West Africa-bound cocaine seizures alarms UN
Romanus Ugwu, Abuja The United Nations Office on Drug and Crime (UNODC) is alarmed at the significant upsurge and seizure ...
UN, EU parley on migration, borders, counter trafficking in West Africa
Fred Itua, Abuja Global experts in the Free Movement of Persons and Migration in West Africa Project at the weekend ...
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 ...
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 ...
