ECOWAS Commission moves to strengthen security cooperation with Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, Commission has expressed its readiness to fortify information practice with Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters arsenic portion of efforts to tackle emerging information threats crossed the West African sub-region.

The Vice President of the ECOWAS Commission, Anthony Oluwatosin Ogunjimi, made this known connected Thursday, November 12, 2026, during a familiarisation sojourn to the Defence Headquarters successful Abuja, wherever helium was received by the Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Olufemi Oluyede.

During the visit, Ogunjimi praised the enactment of the Armed Forces of Nigeria, AFN, for its contributions to determination peace, information and stability. He peculiarly highlighted Nigeria's relation successful peacekeeping and stabilisation missions successful Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau.

He described Nigeria's committedness to determination information arsenic a large driving unit down ECOWAS' efforts to beforehand peace, stableness and integration among subordinate states.

The ECOWAS Vice President besides applauded the Defence Headquarters for its continued efforts to support Nigeria's territorial integrity and lend to broader determination information objectives.

He further expressed the Commission's involvement successful expanding its concern with the Nigerian subject done stronger organization engagement, information collaboration and associated initiatives to code evolving threats confronting West Africa.

Responding, the Chief of Defence Staff, General Olufemi Olu...