Declaring that nobody could love Mali more than Malians themselves, President Buhari yesterday counselled on the need for everyone to work within the tenets of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), to restore...
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, represented President Muhammadu Buhari at the Extraordinary Summit of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Accra, Ghana. The summit, according to a statement by his spokesman, Laolu...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested one Okey Eze with N2.3 billion worth of cocaine at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. In a statement on Wednesday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman,...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Thursday imposed sanctions against the junta in Guinea and those slowing Mali’s post-coup transition. The imposition of the sanctions is the bloc’s toughest response yet to a...
The African Union has suspended Mali “until normal constitutional order has been restored.” The country had earlier been expelled by ECOWAS. Contained in the communiqué of its 1001st meeting, the African Union Peace and Security Council...
The Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) at its emergency summit in Ghana on Sunday, suspended Mali from its fold following two military coups in the country. According to Shirley Botchwey, Ghana’s foreign minister, the...
Mali’s transitional president and prime minister resigned during mediation efforts Wednesday after being arrested in an apparent second military coup in nine months, a top junta aide and an international diplomat said. President Bah Ndaw and...
The Federal Government of Nigeria has condemned the detention of the interim President Bah Ndaw and Prime Minister Moctar Ouane by military of Mali. Their detention came hours after a government reshuffle left out two soldiers...
The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is set to invest $25 billion to develop agriculture in Nigeria, Senegal, Mali, Gabon and Sudan. This was disclosed by Akinwumi Adesina, AfDB’s president in a statement on Wednesday. He...
President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed delight that the Mali situation had calmed down considerably, following interventions by leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). In a statement by Femi Adesina, in Abuja, Buhari...