Nigeria’s Implementation of the Ecowas Protocol on Free Movement of Persons – Challenges and Responses

Amaka Jane Ekezie-Joseph
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Amaka Jane Ekezie-Joseph: Pan African University, Nigeria

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2021, vol. 5, issue 6, 113-120

Abstract: In Africa, regional integration appeared to be a viable means to achieve socio-economic stability and facilitate the integration of the economies of newly independent African countries in the world global economy; with the Abuja treaty of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) now the African Union designating eight Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as the building blocks of the African Economic Community (AEC). In West Africa, economic decline and decay were the major catalysts for social change characterised by socio-economic and political turmoil enmeshed in increased poverty, chronic food shortages, expanded indebtedness, worsening balance of payments, and internecine wars (Anadi, 2005). Therefore, in search of new strategies for the attainment of all round sustainable development, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was established for economic revitalization across the West African region and has offered the only practical means for building more viable national economies (Onyia, 1995).

Date: 2021
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