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NewsNigeriaPoliticsEndSARS: ECOWAS Court Finds Nigerian Govt Guilty of Rights Violation

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)July 11, 2024

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Court of Justice has ruled that the Nigerian government violated the human rights of protesters during the #EndSARS demonstrations in 2020. The court specifically condemned the government’s response to the demonstrations at Lekki Toll Gate in Lagos, where security forces reportedly opened fire on peaceful protestors. The ruling comes after a lawsuit filed by three individuals who participated in the protests, which called for an end to...

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AfricaNewsProtest: Ruto To Cut $1.39 Billion Government Spending

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)July 6, 2024

Kenyan President William Ruto is set to scrap a planned tax hike, due to nationwide protests that lasted for weeks. Ruto pledged on Friday to cut the cost of governance totaling 177 billion shillings ($1.39 billion) in the fiscal year that started in July. The government will also increase borrowing by about 169 billion shillings to cover the 346 billion shilling hole created by the decision to withdraw the finance bill that was the original...

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AfricaNewsVP Chilima and 9 Others Perish in Malawi Plane Disaster

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 12, 2024

Malawi’s Vice President, Saulos Chilima, and nine other passengers were killed when the plane they were travelling in crashed in the Chikangawa mountain range. The group was travelling to attend the funeral of a former government minister in the northern part of the country. The passengers included the former first lady, Shanil Dzimbiri, the ex-wife of former President Bakili Muluzi, and military officers. Pilot News earlier reported that the plane, a Malawi Defence Force aircraft,...

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AfricaNewsNigeriaMalawi Scrambles to Locate Missing Vice President and 9 Others After Plane Vanishes

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)June 11, 2024

An aircraft carrying Malawi’s Vice President, Saulos Chilima, and nine others has gone missing, according to a statement from the president’s office. The Malawi Defence Force aircraft “went off the radar” after taking off from the capital, Lilongwe, on Monday morning. The plane was expected to land at Mzuzu International Airport, in the country’s north, at 10:02 a.m. local time. However, air traffic control instructed the pilot to turn around due to bad weather and...

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NewsNigeriaPoliticsFirst Female ECOWAS, Parliament Speaker Sworn-in

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 23, 2024

Mrs Maimunatu Ibrahima, parliament member from Togo has been sworn in as the first female speaker of the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Parliament. The speaker was sworn in at the second extraordinary session of the parliament on Thursday in Kano. Under the parliament’s rotational system for the speakership, the position falls to Togo during this legislative session. Ibrahima, who previously served as the third Deputy Speaker in the Fifth Legislature of the...

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AfricaECOWASNewsECOWAS Commissioner Faults Formation Of Alliance States in Fighting Terrorism

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)May 16, 2024

Ambassador Abdel Fatau Musah, the ECOWAS Commissioner of Political Affairs Peace and Security says Niger, Mali, and Burkina Faso left the region to ally, which had caused set back to the regional counter Terrorism efforts, noted that creating an alliance of Sahelian states has complicated the fight against terrorism in the region. Ambassador Musah who stated this in Abuja at a stakeholder’s Engagement on Regional Defence and Security perspectives with the theme of reducing vulnerabilities...

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NewsNigeriaWest AfricaTinubu pedals down on sanctions against Niger as junta consolidates power

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)March 13, 2024

The hostility between West African countries Nigeria and Niger might cease in the coming days as President Bola Tinubu has directed the opening of Nigeria’s land and air borders with the Niger. The borders connecting the two neighbouring countries were closed in August 2023 following a military coup in Niger which saw democratically-elected President Mohamed Bazoum ousted and locked up on 26 July 2023. The Nigerian government also imposed other far-reaching sanctions on Niger, including...

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AfricaNewsNigeriaPoliticsWest AfricaRepublic of Niger Formally Suspended From ECOWAS

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)December 15, 2023

The Republic of Niger has been formally suspended from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) until constitutional order is restored in the country. The suspension of the Republic of Niger from the regional body was contained in a statement following the decisions taken at the summit of heads of state and government held on Sunday in Abuja. The statement reads in part: “Until the 64th ordinary session held on Dec. 10, 2023, the Conference...

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NewsNigeriaEight ECOWAS Countries Get $1.96m To Tackle Fistula

Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)December 8, 2023

Eight ECOWAS countries to include Nigeria, Togo, Benin, Guinea Bissau, Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Gambia, and Liberia had received $245,000 each on Thursday amounting to$1.96 million from Economic Community of West African States Gender Development Centre to address fistula disorder. The presentation of cheques to the beneficiaries was one of the highlights of the 91st Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers in Abuja. According to United States Agency for International Development (USAID), 13,000 new...

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AfricaNewsWest AfricaNiger’s military government seeks suspension of sanctions by ECOWAS

By Ezinwanne Onwuka (Senior Reporter)November 24, 2023

Niger’s junta has dragged the Nigerian government and Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, to court, seeking the relaxation of the harsh sanctions imposed on the country following the late July coup that led to the overthrow of President Mohamed Bazoum. Younkaila Yaye, one of the military government attorneys, at the proceeding in Abuja on Monday, said the country is in the grip of economic depression. Businesses are shutting down because of rising costs,...

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