Reporter: Victoria Edeme File: The president,major General Muhammadu Buhari ,departs Abuja. The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), will today depart Paris to South Africa, to attend the Intra-African Trade Fair. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, announced this on Saturday in a statement titled, ‘President Buhari Leaves Paris For Intra African Trade Fair In South Africa’. The statement read, “President Muhammadu Buhari will, Saturday, leave Paris for Durban, South Africa, at a special invitation by President Cyril Ramaphosa, to join other African leaders at the Official Opening Ceremony of the 2nd Intra-African Trade Fair 2021 which takes place on Monday. “The event, holding from November 15 to November 21, is being convened by the African Export-Import Bank in collaboration with the African Union Commission and the African Continental Free Trade Area Secretariat. “The theme of the Fair, Building Bridges for a Successful AfCFTA ai...
REPORTER: Noah Banjo VICE-PRESIDENT,PROF YEMI OSINBAJO The Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, has urged the United Nations and the European Union to support the sanctions placed on Mali and Guinea coup leaders by the Economic Community of West African States. In a statement made available by his aide on Media & Publicity, Osinbajo who was representing the President, Major Gen Muhammadu Buria (retd.), said this at the ECOWAS Extraordinary Summit of the Authority of Heads of State and Government held on Sunday in Accra, Ghana. Osinbajo stated that the Authority had resolved to uphold the sanctions it had imposed on the coup leaders of Mali and Guinea on September 26, 2021, insisting that international organisations such as the UN and EU must support the sanctions for democracy to thrive in West Africa. He said that coups are a thing of the past that should not be present in West Africa adding that ECOWAS Heads of State and G...