President Bola Tinubu will on Tuesday, May 26, leave Abuja for Lagos to celebrate, along with other leaders, the 50th anniversary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). A statement from presidential aide, Bayo Onanuga, says the ECOWAS golden jubilee was flagged off in Accra last month and that the Lagos events will include reenacting the 1975 declaration at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs in Victoria Island. He stated that President Tinubu, the Chairman of ECOWAS, will highlight the economic bloc's milestones. He stated that 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. Onanuga added that 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. Onanuga further stated that 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 LagosCalabar 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''Onanuga added that President Tinubu will observe the Eid-el-Kabir prayers at the State House, Dodan Barracks, before returning to Abuja.
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