President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed profound shock at the plane crash involving an Ethiopian Airliner bound for Nairobi, Kenya, in which all the 149 passengers and eight crew members died. On behalf of the government and the people of Nigeria, the President extended his sincere condolences to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia, the people […]

French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon, was found guilty of failing to report to authorities the alleged sexual abuse of a priest in his diocese. He was given a six-month suspended prison sentence. The cardinal has announced that he will resign his diocesan position. French tribunal president Brigitte Vernay declared Barbarin guilty March 7 […]

The Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, through its parliament has reaffirmed its commitment to introducing the community’s unified monetary unit by next year. Rising from a three-day seminar in Dakar, the Senegalese capital, on the “Challenges and prospects of the ECOWAS single Currency,” the Speaker of the ECOWAS Parliament Moustapha Cisse Lo said […]

  The Speaker of ECOWAS Parliament, Mustapha Cisse Lo, has congratulated Nigeria and Senegal for conducting successful elections. Mr. Cisse Lo congratulated the two countries at the opening of the Extra Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Dakar, Senegal. The Speaker of the regional parliament noted that the successful conduct of elections by the […]

Recently ,  the entire world celebrated women of all races, all religion and sexual affiliations for the great contributions and achievement the world has recorded because of women. As the world celebrates the International Women’s Day, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC lends her voice to laud women across the globe and to use […]