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Niger, Burkina Faso, Mali Pull Out Of ECOWAS

Ganiyu Amodu

In a pivotal announcement on Sunday, the nations of Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger declared their swift departure from the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, unveiling a decision steeped in a profound sense of injustice. The joint statement, solemnly conveyed through Niger’s national television, underscored the discontentment stemming, in part, from the sanctions imposed by ECOWAS on the junta-led states. These West African nations, led by junta governments, lamented the perceived inequity in the punitive measures imposed by ECOWAS, a move that has driven them to sever their…

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BREAKING: ECOWAS Fixes Fresh Meeting Over Niger for Aug. 10

Aliyu Aliyu

The Nigerian President, and chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Bola Tinubu has convened another Extraordinary Summit of the Authority on the political situation in the Republic of Niger.m, Platforms Africa reports. “The Summit will hold in Abuja, on Thursday, August 10, 2023,” a statement published on the website of the West African regional bloc said on Monday. “The ECOWAS Leaders will be considering and discussing the political situation and recent developments in Niger during the Summit.”…

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Buhari meets visiting Ghanaian President Akufo-Addo behind closed door

Aliyu Aliyu

Here are the real reasons Ghana’s President Akufo-Addo visited Buhari + what they discussed behind close-door   Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday met behind closed door with Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the agenda of the meeting between President Buhari and the Ghanaian leader was unknown to State House correspondents as at the time of filing this report. It, however, gathered that Akufo-Addo, who is the Chairman of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was at the State House to discuss…

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74 Foreign passengers abscond from Nigeria’s quarantine centres

Dawood Rabiu

  ECOWAS Heads of State and Government had fixed the cost of COVID-19 testing, whether PCR or otherwise, at $50 at all Points of Entry with effect from May 17, 2021.   The Nigerian Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 has said some returning foreign passengers have absconded from the country’s isolation centres, which is a violation of the mandatory quarantine requirement under the advisory earlier issued by Nigeria. Though the Chairman of the PSC on COVID-19 and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, who confirmed this during…

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