THE African Development Fund has approved an initial $99.16 million investment to enhance rice cultivation value chains in West Africa. The initiative, part of the Regional West Africa Rice Development project, aims to bolster food security and self-sufficiency in rice…
THE ECOWAS Court has dismissed an application filed by a Nigerian, Chukwuemeka Edeh, seeking five million naira in damages for alleged unlawful detention and torture by the defunct Police Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS. The petitioner had approached the court…
THE ECOWAS Court has dismissed Nigeria’s preliminary objection to the court’s jurisdiction to determine a human rights violation case involving a Nigerian man on death row for 30 years. Ogueri is a 72-year-old inmate in a Nigerian maximum-security prison.…
Dr Omar Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, has called on Member States to collaborate and expedite action toward ensuring that the African-Atlantic gas project(AAGP) becomes a reality. Touray made the plea at a joint meeting of the Economic Community…
THE Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Sen. Abubakar Bagudu, on Friday said that the ongoing reforms by the Federal Government would improve the country’s economy. The minister gave the assurance when he received a delegation from the Chambers of…
The President of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, the Honourable Justice Ricardo Claúdio Monteiro Gonçalves, accompanied by the Honourable Justice Sengu Mohamed Koroma, Vice-President of the Court, paid a courtesy visit to the Office of the ECOWAS Auditor General on…
THE ECOWAS Court of Justice (CCJ) has elected Cape Verde’s Justice Ricardo Gonçalves as its new President. It also elected Sierra Leone’s Justice Sengu Koroma as new Vice President, both for non-renewable four-year tenure. They were elected by the court’s…
THE ECOWAS Community Court of Justice sitting in Abuja has reserved for judgment the suit regarding the enslavement of a 22-year-old then in 2021 in the person of Glory Okolie by men of the Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT) of…
THE Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has issued a strong condemnation following a terrorist attack on a military installation in Mali’s capital, Bamako, which was foiled by Malian security forces on Tuesday. The target, the Faladie Gendarmerie…
MALI, Burkina Faso, and Niger are rolling out new biometric passports as part of their withdrawal from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), marking a major step towards solidifying their newly formed Alliance of Sahel States (AES). The biometric…
