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The ECOWAS Commission, through its Directorate of Peacekeeping and Regional Security, convened the two-day Governmental Experts’ Validation Meeting on the ECOWAS Standby Force Training Policy for Peace Support Operations held from 16 to 17 July 2025 in Abuja, Nigeria.
NEPAD Business Group Nigeria has renewed its commitment to regional economic integration by partnering with the African Business Roundtable during a landmark AfCFTA forum to advance intra-African trade and private sector collaboration
The Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Limited, in partnership with Village Capital and Enterprise Development Centre, has announced the top 10 finalists progressing into Cohort 6 of its Futuremakers Women in Technology Incubator programme in Nigeria.
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved €173.84 million for the Rwanda Energy Sector Result-Based Financing (RBF II) program to modernize the electricity network, expand access to clean energy, and strengthen institutional capacity.
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank has approved a $17 million grant to support recovery and resilient-building efforts in conflict-affected northern Mozambique’s Cabo Delgado province.
The President and Chief Executive of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has urged wealthy Nigerians to invest in Nigeria, as it is the only way to build the nation.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the Senegalese authorities to release news commentator Badara Gadiaga and cease arresting journalists, refrain from retaliating against the media for coverage critical of the government.
Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), has announced that the headline inflation rate for the month of June eased further to 22.22 per cent.
The Media Rights Agenda (MRA) has called on the Federal Government of Nigeria to take urgent measures to implement and give full effect to the April 9, 2025 judgment of the ECOWAS Court of Justice, which declared aspects of Kano State’s blasphemy laws a violation of Nigeria’s obligations under the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights (ACHPR) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).
Nigeria’s average daily crude production rose above the quota allocated to it by the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in June 2025.