Nigeria would play a leading role in any intervention threatened by the Ecowas regional bloc. Read more at straitstimes.com.
in neighbouring Niger, ahead of a Sunday deadline to reinstate the country’s elected government.
“The Senate calls on the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as chairman of Ecowas to further encourage other leaders of Ecowas to strengthen the political and diplomatic options,” he said. “The Nigerian military have been overstretched over the years battling terrorism and all manners of insurgency that are still very active,” the Coalition of United Political Parties said on Saturday.
His goal was to free up funds for investment, in agriculture and social programmes in particular. The immediate result however was a quadrupling of fuel prices for a country where nearly half the population is estimated to live in extreme poverty.
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