Gambia’s long-time leader Yahya Jammeh has finally accepted to step down following last-ditch diplomatic efforts made by the leaders of Guinea and Mauritania who both arrived...
Disgraced former President Yahya Jammeh has one more chance to prevent bloodshed and avoid a violent removal from office. With troops already on ground inside The...
Scores of Gambians are beginning to leave the shores of their country in droves with fears on the rise that President Yahya Jammeh’s attempt to overturn...
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, his Deputy, Senator Ike Ekweremadu and chairman, Senate committee on Anti-Corruption and Financial Crimes, Chukwuka Utazi, on Thursday, clashed over the deployment...
By Joseph Edgar… Nigerians in their enthusiasm are edging on our President to send troops. Everybody is feeling a sense of de ja vu, it will...
The Vice President of Gambia Isatou Njie-Saidy has resigned her appointment following the political chaos caused by the refusal of President Yahya Jammeh to step down...
The Gambia’s National Assembly jolted ECOWAS member countries on Monday as it announced extension of President Yahya Jammeh’s tenure by three months beginning from Wednesday. Jammeh...
A Nigerian warship vessel dubbed the NNS Unity – is currently sailing off the coast of Ghana as it makes it way to Gambia in a...
The fear of an imminent war due to President Yayeh Jammeh’s refusal to step down as the country’s president has led to a mass exodus of...
Rising after a one-day summit in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, ECOWAS leaders decided they will visit Gambian President Yahya Jammeh on Wednesday in a second attempt...
Rising from a meeting among regional leaders in Ghana’s capital Accra, Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf told reporters on Saturday that the ECOWAS regional bloc did...
In a bid to stay in the good books of the European Union (EU), Nigeria has agreed to reduce import duties for about 170 items by...
General Ousman Badjie, Gambia’s army chief has pledged his support for President Yahya Jammeh in the face of a possible regional military intervention by ECOWAS to...
Defiant President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh has declared while delivering a New Year’s speech that he is ready to defend his country against external aggression after...
In the discharge of his mandate as the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) mediator for The Gambia, President Muhammadu Buhari has activated the process...
Though Senegal is to lead a planned military intervention in Gambia if its president, Yahya Jammeh, fails to step down when his mandate expires on January...
Defiant Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has condemned mediation efforts by the African regional bloc ECOWAS aimed at making him see reason to step down from office....
West African leaders resolved at the end of an ECOWAS leader’s summit in Abuja at the weekend to ensure to uphold Gambia’s vote results. They said...
Chairperson of the Economic Community of West African States, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia urged leaders at the bloc’s summit in Abuja on Saturday to...
Gambia’s President Yayha Jammeh has not shifted grounds concerning his stance on the outcome of the last elections as African leaders failed to reach a deal...
President Muhammadu Buhari arrived Banjul, the Gambia Tuesday morning to meet with the country’s President, Yahya Jammeh, who lost the presidential election penultimate week. The Nigerian...
By Reuben Abati… When President Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia conceded defeat after the December 1, Presidential elections in that West African country of 1.9 million...
Moves are being made to prevail upon incumbent Gambian President Yahyah Jammeh who surprisingly rejected the outcome of the last presidential election citing serious anomalies while...
The much expected adoption of a single currency by ECOWAS countries will not be feasible till 2020, when the economic woes facing Nigeria may have receded,...
Notwithstanding the biting economic reality occasioned by the current recession in the country, Nigeria has doled out a whooping $54 million as part payment of its...
Despite the economic downturn caused largely by fallen prices of oil in the international market, President Muhammadu Buhari says Nigeria will fulfill its obligations to the...
Statement by His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari, President Of The Federal Republic Of Nigeria, at the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York, USA...
The real sector, represented by the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria (MAN), has stoutly stood against the current efforts aimed at renewing the ECOWAS/EU Economic Partnership Agreement...
Nigeria is among the five member-states of ECOWAS yet to tap from the $2.25 billion internationally backed environmental programme: the Green Climate Fund (GCF), according to...
The Nigerian maritime industry with potential of over $2.1 billion annual revenue is yet to be fully harnessed by the government, due to some policy...
Abundant rainfall in 2015, and early part of 2016, plus other inputs have soared cocoa production level of Ivory Coast over other countries in West Africa....
Nigeria and some Economic Community of West African (ECOWAS) states will witness real growth in education in 2089, 73 years from today, so says a UNESCO...
There seems to be a growing rift between Nigeria and the other 14 members of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). The bone of...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday held a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister of Japan H.E. Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of 6th Tokyo International Conference on...
In a bid to overtake Nigeria as the main hub of the aviation industry in West Africa, Ghana has reduced price of Jet A1 by 20...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) says, if Nigeria reduces assistance to it, the community would find it difficult to survive most challenges facing...
The case of former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki, challenging his unlawfully detention by the Federal Government before the Community Court of Justice of...
The Federal Government has said it would be dangerous to release the embattled former National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki, saying he constitutes a security risk....
Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Monday called for more powers for the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament, if the aim of the sub...
The 47th Ordinary Session of ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government which held in Ghana, Tuesday turned into a valedictory session as leaders present...
Commendations have continued to pour in for Nigerians from various international bodies who have commended the peaceful conduct, and determination of Nigerians, in the Presidential and...
President of the United States, Barack Obama, and leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have stated their interests in the forthcoming polls,...
Barring any unforeseen contingencies, the capital markets of countries within the West African sub-region would be integrated by the first quarter of 2016, the Chairman, Securities...
President Goodluck Jonathan has assured that there is no way he could push for an Interim National Government (ING) having been elected with clear mandate of...
Following the shift in election dates, the United Nations (UN) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) have both impressed on the Independent National...
