Nigerian Times

Togo to host 6th ECOWAS Trade Fair in November 2011 LOME, July 5, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Government of Togo will in November 2011 host the 6th ECOWAS Trade Fair, a regional platform for accessing West Africa's market of some 300 million consumers. In a letter to the Togolese Government confirming the hosting mandate, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador James Victor Gbeho, assured that the Commission would deploy all necessary means to ensure that the country records a huge success as it did in 2003 when it hosted the regional fair. To this end, a four-day meeting of the Regional Organizing Committee (ROC) has just ended in Lome, the Togolese capital to fine tune arrangements for the hosting. Members of the ROC paid a courtesy visit on the Togolese Minister of Commerce, Mr. Kwesi Seleagodji Ahoomey-Zunu, on Thursday, 30th June 2011 on the sidelines of their meeting in Lome. During the visit, the head of the ECOWAS delegation, Mr. Adou Koman, tha...

Professor Amos Claudius Sawyer April 14, 2011 11:22 ET Professor Amos Sawyer arrives Abuja to lead ECOWAS observers to Nigeria's presidential election ABUJA, April 14, 2011/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The former President of the Interim Government of Liberia and Head of the ECOWAS Election Observation Mission to Nigeria's 16th April 2011 presidential polls, Professor Amos Sawyer , has arrived Abuja, the Nigerian capital, to lead 300 regional observers who are being deployed to the six geo-political zones of the country to observe the election. Members of the Mission include ECOWAS Ambassadors, representatives of the ECOWAS Council of the Wise, representatives of civil society organizations, the ECOWAS Parliament and Court of Justice, electoral experts as well as representatives of electoral commissions from the 15 Member States. Professor Sawyer who will be joined on Election Day by the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Ambassador James Victor Gbeho, was part of the...