{"id":192572,"date":"2020-02-10T12:56:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T11:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=192572"},"modified":"2020-02-10T12:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T11:59:00","slug":"nigerias-border-closure-ecowas-takes-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=192572","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s border closure: ECOWAS takes action"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee chaired by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso, to make a full report on Nigeria\u2019s land border closure.<\/p>\n<p>Garba Shehu, President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s spokesman, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>He said this was agreed Sunday night in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at an extraordinary session of ECOWAS leaders convened on the margins of the 33rd AU Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Shehu added that the meeting also discussed West Africa\u2032s new single currency, the Eco, and the situation in Guinea Bissau after the presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, told journalists that\u2019: \u2018\u2018The President of Burkina Faso is charged with undertaking a full study of the situation, make a report and then we take it from there.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On when the report will be presented to ECOWAS Heads, he replied: \u2018\u2018As soon as possible, there are no timelines.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But he is supposed to start very quickly, study the situation from all the affected countries and present his report.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>On the Eco currency, the Foreign Minister said: \u2018\u2018Nothing has changed in respect of Nigeria\u2019s position\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He added that Nigeria\u2019s position was that the convergence criteria had not been met by majority of the countries, therefore there has to be an extension of time on the take-off of the single currency.<\/p>\n<p>On Guinea Bissau, the Minister said ECOWAS leaders recognized that there was an appeal of the presidential election result and \u201dthey are waiting for the Supreme Court decision on the matter\u201d.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee chaired by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso, to make a full report on Nigeria\u2019s land border closure. Garba Shehu, President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s spokesman, confirmed this in a statement in Abuja on Monday. He said this was agreed Sunday night in Addis Ababa, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":192573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[2658,41,862],"class_list":["post-192572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-a","tag-buhari","tag-ecowas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=192572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/192573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}