{"id":91938,"date":"2023-07-09T22:08:06","date_gmt":"2023-07-09T21:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman"},"modified":"2023-07-10T00:36:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-09T23:36:41","slug":"president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu elected ECOWAS Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has emerged as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).<\/p>\n<p>He was elected chair at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, taking place in Guinea-Bissau.<\/p>\n<p>An elated Tinubu pledged to take democracy seriously, noting that, though tough, it is still the best form of government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has emerged as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He was elected chair at the 63rd Ordinary Session of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, taking place in Guinea-Bissau. An elated Tinubu pledged to take democracy seriously, noting that, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":91937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,1578,847,254,945],"class_list":["post-91938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-breaking","tag-ecowas","tag-nigeria","tag-tinubu"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President Tinubu elected ECOWAS Chairman - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has emerged as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"President Tinubu elected ECOWAS Chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has emerged as the new Chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-07-09T21:08:06+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-09T23:36:41+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688929477.621302.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"President Tinubu elected ECOWAS Chairman\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-07-09T21:08:06+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-09T23:36:41+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman\"},\"wordCount\":79,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2023\/07\/sm_1688929477.621302.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"breaking\",\"ECOWAS\",\"Nigeria\",\"Tinubu\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/president-tinubu-elected-ecowas-chairman\",\"name\":\"President Tinubu elected ECOWAS Chairman - 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