ECOTIFE 2025 is an integral part of the year-long ECOWAS@50 celebrations, symbolizing the region’s collective vision for a borderless, prosperous, and self-reliant West Africa

President Bola Tinubu met with the President of Sierra Leone and Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Julius Maada Bio at the Presidential Villa in Abuja over the weekend. BusinessDay gathered that the meeting was part of President Tinubu's ongoing consultations with global leaders, especially within the ECOWAS subregion, aimed at tackling insecurity in Nigeria and the entire West Africa.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in partnership with Islamic scholars and organisations, has called for stronger unity, cooperation, and the adoption of non-violent strategies…

Abuja is forging fresh partnerships as jihadist violence spreads and trust frays in the wake of military rule

Omar Alieu Touray, President of ECOWAS Commission, has lamented that terrorism and violent extremism have exerted a huge toll on the socio-economic well-being of the people of West Africa in the last decade. He disclosed this while speaking at the closing ceremony of the first West African Islamic conference on security and governance in Abuja, on Thursday. The three-day event organised by Jam'iyyatu Ansariddeen Atijjaniyya in collaboration with ECOWAS was held to create and implement an action plan on the role of Islamic organisations in countering terrorism and violent extremism in West Africa and the Sahel through non-kinetic strategies.

The Economic Community of West African States has called for the modernisation of traditional Islamic schools to tackle the surging scourge of terrorism and violent extremism across the sub-region. President of the ECOWAS Commission, Omar Touray, made the appeal on Thursday in Abuja at the West African Islamic Conference on Security and Governance. According to him, modernising and protecting the schools, students, and teachers will end the street begging phenomenon, child abuse, and children’s vulnerability to radicalisation and recruitment by extremist and terrorist groups.

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), in partnership with Islamic scholars and organisations, has called for stronger unity, cooperation and the adoption of non-violent strategies to counter terrorism and violent extremism across West Africa and the Sahel. The call came at the conclusion of the first West African Islamic Conference on Security and Governance, which was held in Abuja from November 4 to 6, 2025.

ECOWAS rejected US claims of Christian genocide in Nigeria, calling them false and harmful, and urged global unity against indiscriminate terrorist violence.

Speaking during the high-level negotiation meeting, Vice President Damtien L. TCHINTCHIBIDJA commended Germany for its consistent partnership and longstanding support to ECOWAS

Shugabannin duniya sun fara mayarwa da shugaban Amurka martani game da barazanarsa ta kaiwa Najeriya hari, kan zargin ana yiwa kiristoci kisan ƙare dangi a ƙasar mafi yawan jama’a a Nahiyar Afrika. Daga cikin waɗanda suka soki yunƙurin akwai ƙungiyar ECOWAS da Tarayyar Turai da kuma ƙasar China.