The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was created by the Treaty of Lagos on May 28, 1975, in Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria. ECOWAS was established to promote cooperation and integration in order to create an economic and monetary union for promoting economic growth and development in West Africa.
as Oba and signing a treaty that established Lagos as being under British protection. Ten years later, the forced LagosTreatyof Cession led to the formal...
days while facing the threat of violence on Lagos and its people, but capitulated and signed the LagosTreatyof Cession. Lagos was declared a colony on 5...
The Reduction ofLagos or Bombardment ofLagos was a British naval operation in late 1851 that involved the Royal Navy bombarding Lagos (in present-day...
the signing of the TreatyofLagos, with its stated mission to promote economic integration across the region. A revised version of the treaty was agreed...
terms of the treaty but under the threat to unleash a bombardment on Lagos by Commander Bedingfield, Dosunmu relented and signed the LagosTreatyof Cession...
alternative names for the road: Nouakchott–Lagos Highway Lagos–Nouakchott Highway Dakar–Lagos Highway Lagos–Dakar Highway Trans-African Highway 7 in the...
Benjamin Campbell, agreeing not to make any claims to Lagos or to endanger commerce in Lagos. The treaty was a tactical success for Kosoko who got the British...
facilitate the harmonisation of policies and ensure compliance with the Abuja Treaty and Lagos Plan of Action time frames. Several of the RECs overlap in membership:...
May 28 – Fifteen West African countries sign the TreatyofLagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States. June 5 – The Suez Canal opens...
violation of the treaty, and Akitoye willingly permitted this. British consul Benjamin Campbell denounced Tinubu's economic hegemony over Lagos and her...
countries signed the TreatyofLagos, creating the Economic Community of West African States. Ludvík Svoboda retired as General Secretary of Czechoslovakia's...
1975 by the TreatyofLagos (ECOWAS Treaty), the Court of Justice was not created until the adoption of the Protocol on the Community Court of Justice in...
Moresby Treaty was an anti-slavery treaty between Sayyid Said, Sultan of Muscat and Oman and Fairfax Moresby, senior officer of Mauritius, on behalf of Britain...
training of African forces in West Africa. Senegal is a Zone A member of ECOWAS since its formation in 1975 with the signing of the TreatyofLagos and the...
Benjamin Campbell, agreeing not to make any claims to Lagos or to endanger commerce in Lagos. The treaty was a tactical success for Kosoko who got the British...
(Spanish: Lago de Nicaragua, Lago Cocibolca, Mar Dulce, Gran Lago, Gran Lago Dulce, or Lago de Granada) is a freshwater lake in Nicaragua. Of tectonic...
itself or to integration of the sub-regions. The 1980 Lagos Plan of Action for the Development of Africa and the 1991 treaty to establish the African...
between Great Britain and Lagos on 1 January 1852. Britain annexed Lagos as a crown colony in August 1861 with the LagosTreatyof Cession. British missionaries...
interests. Lagos was annexed as a Crown Colony in 1861 via the LagosTreatyof Cession. British expansion accelerated in the last decades of the nineteenth...
The Lagos Accord was a peace agreement signed on August 21, 1979, by representatives of eleven warring factions of the Chadian Civil War, after a conference...
bribe from a motorist in Lagos. On 9 March 2020, two Nigeria Police Force officers from Lagos, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Adebayo Ojo and...
terms of the treaty but under the threat to unleash violence on Lagos by Commander Bedingfield, Dosunmu relented and signed the LagosTreatyof Cession...