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Senator Biodun Olujimi, representing Ekiti South Senatorial District and also a member of the Economic Community of West African State (ECOWAS) Parliament, has blamed migration in the sub-region on food insufficiency. Speaking with journalist at the sidelines of the Parliament delocalized meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources/ Infrastructure/ Energy and Mines/ Industry and Private Sector in Bissau, Capital of Guinea Bissau, Sen. Olujimi called for enough budgetary allocation to agriculture while stressing on the role and impact of sufficient food in a Nation and how it could reduce the menace of migration across the sub-region. “The youths in West Africa must know that food sufficiency is key to whatever we are doing and that is the reason why we have people migrating. When you don’t have enough to eat, your family does not have enough to eat, then there is a problem, hence migration. But if there is food sufficiency in West Africa we ...

Civil Society Organizations on Wednesday called on the Parliament of the Economic Community of West African States Commission (ECOWAS) to legislate policies that will improve political wills to making Agriculture more sustainable in Africa. They maintained that Agriculture is a business and there is need to grow food to feed the population. Addressing Parliamentarians at the ongoing delocalized meeting of the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources/ Infrastructure/ Energy and Mines/ Industry and Private Sector in Bissau, the President of the Farmers Union of Liberia and 1st Vice President of the Roppa Monrovia-Liberia, Josephine George Francis said more is expected from MPs at addressing the challenges of Agriculture in the sub-region. Speaking on a topic, “Farmers Organizations Collaboration with ECOWAS for Agriculture Production, Food and Nutrition Security in Our Region, Mrs. Francis said most countries in the region have not come up to the benchmark o...

The ECOWAS Parliament on Tuesday commenced a delocalized meeting of its Joint Committee on Agriculture, Environment and Natural Resources/ Infrastructure/ Energy and Mines/ Industry and Private Sector in Guinea Bissau. The Co-Chair of the Joint Committee, Hon. Samson Ahi, from Ghana in his remarks stated that the Parliament chose this focus due to the current major challenges which include: security, health, economic and climate crisis faced by the sub-region. Hon. Ahi stressed that droughts, floods and coastal erosion which are amongst the adverse effects of climate change are adversely impacting the sub-region, hence the need for immediate solutions to address them. He said “our region is dealing with both security, health, economic and climate crises. This last aspect, which is essentially linked to climate change, remains of great concern to us because the West African sub region is mainly an agricultural zone. Consequently, the hazards and adverse effects of climate chang...

As the situation in Sierra Leone become worrisome, which has led to loss of lives and property, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Parliament has concluded plans to send a fact finding team to unravel the cause of the crisis and to investigate the level of damage. It could be recalled that some protesters and police officers were killed as anti-government protests in Sierra Leone turned violent. Hundreds of people took to the streets on Wednesday in a public display of anger over economic conditions in the country and to protest the perceived failure by the government to cushion the effect of rising prices. Speaking to the press in Banjul , Gambia on the sidelines of the delocalized meeting of ECOWAS Parliament, the Chairman , Political Affairs, Peace, Security and African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Hon. Edwin Melvin Snowe Jr said the parliament is very worried about the situation and vowed not to delay in wading into the crisis. “The situation in Sierra...

ECOWAS Parliament has condemned in its strongest terms, acts of violence in Sierra Leone which led to loss of lives and destruction of properties. The Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament Dr. Sidie Mohamed Tunis made this known on Wednesday at the opening of the delocalized meeting of joint committees on Political Affairs, Peace, Security and Africa Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Legal Affairs and Human Rights/Social Affairs, Gender and Women Empowerment in Banjul, the capital of Gambia. Speaking at the five-day meeting with the theme “Community Texts relating to Peace, Security, Democracy and Good Governance: Challenges in their Implementation and the Oversight Role of ECOWAS Parliament” Represented by the Fourth Deputy Speaker, Adja Satu Camara Pinto, Dr.Tunis call on all sides to adhere to the rule of law, which was the best path to channel and address grievances of every kind. He said, many democracies are having difficulties globally, in this present day, these failures are ofte...

The Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Dr. Sidie Mohamed Tunis, has suspend all recruitment processess of the Parliament following recruitment scandal, and has also constituted an ad-hoc committee to investigate allegations of illegal process of recruitment in the ongoing recruitment process at the ECOWAS Parliament. The statement issued by the Communication Division of the Parliament disclosed that Speaker Tuni had received written complaints from the 1st Deputy Speaker, Honorable Ahmed Idris Wase, and the Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador Musa Sani Nuhu, concerning the ongoing recruitment exercise at the ECOWAS Parliament, hence the setting of an Independent Ad Hoc Committee to investigate allegations of marginalization and malpractice against Nigerian Candidates in the ongoing recruitment process. The statement indicated that "The action of the Honorable Speaker is in conformity to Rule Thirty-three (33) and Thirty-four (34) of the Rules ...

Nigeria has threatened to withdraw its membership of the Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS) if the regional body does not suspend the ongoing recruitment exercise as recently directed in the 2022 First Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Abuja. Nigerian representatives at the parliament of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) issued the threat when some principal officers in the regional bloc defiled the directives and embarked on the illegal process of recruiting their relatives and cronies. The lawmakers cite the huge financial commitments which Nigeria makes to the body while relegating funding its internal security challenges. They said there was no commensurate return on investment for Nigeria in ECOWAS for all the country has done and is doing for the region. This face-off is coming on the heels of recent lopsided recruitment exercise at the ECOWAS parliament which is manifestly skewed to serve the personal interest of member st...