President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is set to depart Abuja on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, traveling to Lagos for a landmark event.
He will join fellow regional leaders to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), marking a half-century of unity, cooperation, and progress across West Africa.
During his visit, President Tinubu is also scheduled to commission several key projects, highlighting Nigeria’s commitment to both national development and regional integration.
The event promises to be a significant milestone, celebrating past achievements while looking ahead to future collaboration among ECOWAS member states.
The ECOWAS golden jubilee, according to a press release signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information & Strategy, was flagged off in Accra last month.
The Lagos events, the release also stated, will include reenacting the 1975 declaration at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria Island.
At the Eko Hotels and Suites event, President Tinubu, the Chairman of ECOWAS, will highlight the economic bloc's milestones, Onanuga explained in the press release.
The Chairman of the NIIA and former Minister of External Affairs, Prof. Bolaji Akinyemi, will review the bloc's 50-year journey, which panellists at the NIIA will later analyse.
The only surviving Head of State who signed the ECOWAS declaration, Gen. Yakubu Gowon (Rtd), will participate in all the ceremonies and deliver a speech at the Eko Hotels.
Dr Omar Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, will deliver the welcome address, it also said.
The press statement further said: “While in Lagos, President Tinubu will, on Saturday, May 31, commission some projects of the administration.
“Among them are Section I of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Lekki Deep Sea Port Tax Credit Concrete Road, the flag-off of Section II of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, and the 7th Axial Road.
“The President will virtually commission Kano-Kanwar-Danja-Hadejiya Section II Road and Yakasai-Zalli Road and flag off the Kano Northern By-pass, Zaria-Hunkuyi-Dabai Section I, Dabai-Kafur Malumfashi, and Malumfashi-Dayi-Yashe-Gidan Mutum Daya Section III.
“President Tinubu will observe the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at the State House, Dodan Barracks, before returning to Abuja.”
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