President Bola Tinubu will depart Abuja today for Lagos to celebrate, along with other leaders, the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States, (ECOWAS).
The ECOWAS golden jubilee was flagged off in Accra in April 2025.
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed this in a statement yesterday, titled: “President Tinubu departs for Lagos to mark ECOWAS’ 50th anniversary, commission projects”.
The statement reads: “The Lagos events 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”.
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.
According to Onanuga, President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Omar Touray, will deliver the welcome address.
While in Lagos, 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 the 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-Ƙafur Malumfashi, and Malumfashi-Dayi-Yashe-Gidan Mutum Ɗaya Section-3.
He will then observe the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at the State House, Dodan Barracks, before returning to Abuja.
