Former Nigerian Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon, has urged the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Authority of Heads of State and Government, to lift sanctions on Mali, Burkina Faso, and the Niger Republic. Gowon, a founding father of ECOWAS, made the appeal in an open letter to the Heads of State and the ECOWAS member states in ...
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Former Head of State and one of the founding fathers of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, General Yakubu Gowon, retd, yesterday turned down invitation to wade into the crises bedeviling the regional body. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in partnership with ECOWAS Commission, had invited journalists to a “’press conference” with Gowon at ECOWAS Commission Headquarters, Abuja, ...
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Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government; Your Excellency, the President of the ECOWAS Commission; Your Excellency, President of the African Union Commission; Your Excellency, President of the UEMOA Commission; The Special Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations in West Africa and the Sahel; and Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen. Let me commence by welcoming you all to ...
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An International Group, Egalitarian Mission for Africa (EMA) has dragged President Bola Tínubu of Nigeria before the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice, seeking order of the court to stop the planned military action against the Republic of Niger. The group in the suit instituted on its behalf by a Nigerian lawyer, Dr Oluwakayode Ajulo, is ...
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