Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON)

PRESS RELEASE

The public presentation and launch of the book “ECOWAS: Three Decades of Enduring Legacies in the West African Sub-Region, Including Profiles of ECOWAS Leaders since Inception will hold in mid-October 2007 in Abuja.

The book is an appraisal of the achievements and problems of the Sub-Regional body as well as the Functions of its key Institutions and Agencies, since it was founded in 1975.

The 260 page book which the author approached from a generalist point of view contains eighteen (18) chapters which considers such issues as the History of the Sub-Regional Body, its Statutory Institutions, the Bureaucracy, ECOWAS Role in Conflict Management, and ECOWAS Efforts in Boosting Intra-Regional Trade and Provision of Key Infrastructure in the Sub-Region.

The book also considers the Domestication of ECOWAS Protocols and Policies by Member States, Efforts towards Monetary Union, Agricultural and Health Policies, the Common External Tariff, the Community Levy and Profiles of ECOWAS Leaders since Inception.

The Author of the book is Osita Nweke, Executive Secretary of Broadcasting Organizations of Nigeria (BON). Osita Nweke is also the Author of the book “Contemporary Broadcasting Icons and Pioneers in Nigeria: Emerging Trends in Broadcasting since Deregulation” that was published in 2004.

Osita Nweke
Executive Secretary (BON)