{"id":24395,"date":"2020-02-10T14:17:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T13:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24395"},"modified":"2020-02-10T14:17:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T13:17:28","slug":"nigerias-border-closure-ecowas-leaders-set-up-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=24395","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s border closure: ECOWAS leaders set up committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Release<\/strong><br \/>\nBy <strong>Garba Shehu<\/strong>, Senior Special Assistant to the President, (Media &amp; Publicity)<br \/>\nThe Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee, headed by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso,\u00a0 to study and make a full report on Nigeria\u2019s land border closure with her neighbours.<br \/>\nThe decision to set up the committee was agreed Sunday night in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at an extraordinary session of ECOWAS leaders convened on the margins of the 33rd AU Summit to discuss the issue and other pressing regional matters.<br \/>\nNigeria\u2019s Foreign Minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, told journalists after the three-hour closed door session that the meeting attended by President Buhari and chaired by the ECOWAS Chairman, President Mahamadou Issoufou of Niger Republic, also discussed West Africa\u2032s new single currency, the Eco, and the situation in Guinea Bissau after the presidential election.<br \/>\nOn border closure, Onyeama said: \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<br \/>\nAsked when the report will be presented to ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, the Nigerian Minister replied: \u2018\u2018As soon as possible, there are no timelines. But he is supposed to start very quickly, study the situation from all the affected countries and present his report.\u2019\u2019<br \/>\nOn the Eco currency, the Foreign Minister said: \u2018\u2018Nothing has changed in respect of Nigeria\u2019s position\u2019\u2019.<br \/>\nHe added that Nigeria\u2019s position was that the convergence criteria have 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.<br \/>\nOn Guinea Bissau, the Minister said ECOWAS leaders recognized that there was an appeal of the presidential election result and they are waiting for the Supreme Court decision on the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Release By Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President, (Media &amp; Publicity) The Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government has constituted a committee, headed by President Roch Marc Christian Kabore of Burkina Faso,\u00a0 to study and make a full report on Nigeria\u2019s land border closure with her neighbours. The decision to set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[87,203,249],"class_list":["post-24395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news","tag-border","tag-ecowas","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}