In May this year the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) will roll out the drums to celebrate a landmark 50 ...

Cape Verde later joined in 1977. Nigeria’s Head of State at the time of ECOWAS founding was General Yakubu Gowon. President Bola Tinubu is the current ECOWAS Chairman. As ECOWAS marks its 50th ...

PRETORIA, July 7. /TASS/. Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu has been re-elected as Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for the second term, the News Agency of ...

The Republic of Niger has implemented strict immigration measures, now requiring Nigerians traveling with ECOWAS passports to ...

Despite maintaining an open border with Nigeria ... those with an ECOWAS passport to pass. If you can’t produce Niger’s new identification document, they take you to their office and pressure ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has commended the Nigerian government for agreeing to host the 13th ECOWAS African Wrestling Tournament, which commenced on Thursday with a ...

Nigeria and EU have deepened their security cooperation, with focus on transnational crime, intelligence sharing, and police ...

Minister of State for Defence, Dr Bello Matawalle, has stated that to effectively address the security challenges in the West African sub-region, collective efforts from all affected countries are ...

Senegal came top at the Economic Community of West African States(ECOWAS) wrestling competition after a 4-1 defeat of the hosts, Nigeria, in the team’s final as the 13 th ECOWAS ...