NEWS

$364m Startup Boom: Nigeria Faces New Test Beyond Venture Capital

Daily Dispatch September 28, 2026

…FG, ECOWAS shift focus from funding to production, exports as 60 West African startups enter race for $65,000 award Nigeria’s startup ecosystem attracted $364.1 million in investment in August 2026, but the Federal Government has warned that the bigger challenge is now converting the surge in

FEATURES

West Africa’s water battle shifts from scarcity to survival

Daily Dispatch September 27, 2026

….ECOWAS, UEMOA, CILSS forge common strategy as climate change, rising demand threaten region’s water security By Michael Olabode West Africa is beginning to treat water as a matter of regional security, economic survival and political cooperation, rather than simply an issue of access to drinking water. That shift in thinking dominated the inaugural West Africa […]

BUSINESS

Abuja Turns into West Africa’s Deal Room

Daily Dispatch September 21, 2026

…. as 60 Startups Chase $65,000 and $5m Jackpot ….6,000 applied, 60 picked, 20 to pitch live September 30 as ECOWAS bets on innovation to drive integration and jobs The future of West African trade is being negotiated this week not in a summit hall, but on a pitch stage. Sixty of the region’s most […]

NEWS

Togolese Public Health Expert Takes Charge of West Africa’s Health Agency

Daily Dispatch September 1, 2026

The West African Health Organisation (WAHO), the specialised health institution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has entered a new leadership era with the assumption of office of Togolese public health expert, Professor Palokinam Pitché, as its Director-General. Professor Pitché formally took over the leadership of the regional health body on

FEATURES

ECOWAS At A Crossroads As Touray Ends Four-Year Era

Daily Dispatch August 30, 2026

By Michael Olukayode The departure of Dr Omar Alieu Touray as President of the ECOWAS Commission closes a four-year chapter in the history of West Africa’s foremost regional organisation, but it also opens one of its most uncertain. Touray, a Gambian diplomat who took charge of the Commission in 2022, leaves office after presiding over […]

TECHNOLOGY

Liberia: How Nigeria’s Soldiers Paid the Price for West Africa’s Peace

Daily Dispatch August 27, 2026

For Nigeria, the war in Liberia was never just another foreign conflict. It became a war fought at a distance but paid for in Nigerian blood, as hundreds of soldiers were deployed into one of West Africa’s most brutal civil wars in an attempt to stop the violence from engulfing the region. More than three […]