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TODAY Economic Community of West African States/ECOWAS The ECOWAS Court of Justice has ordered Nigerian government to pay a German national about N63.6million and $10,000 for his about 11 days of illegal detention by the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) last year. Martin Gegenheimer married to a Nigerian citizen but based in Nairobi, Kenya, had in his suit filed at the court in Abuja claimed that he was illegally detained between February 24 and March 4, 2020. Gegenheimer, a professional aviator with specialisation in commercial airline start-up, had said he was arrested at the boarding gate of the Kenya Airways aircraft while leaving for Nairobi on February 24, 2020. ....
TINAPA loan: Cross River ordered to pay N2.5billion to ECOWAS Bank The said fund was obtained by the then Donald Duke-led administration to fund TINAPA Business Report. The ECOWAS Court of Justice on Friday ordered the Cross River State Governmentto pay an outstanding loan of $6.5million it obtained from ECOWAS Bank in 2005 to fund the TINAPA project. The $6.5million translates to about N2.5billion at the current official exchange rate. Edward Asante, a member of the three-man panel who delivered the judgment, ordered the statement government to make “immediate repayment of the sum of $6, 455,846” to the bank. He also ordered the respondent to pay “the agreed interest of 6.5 per cent per annum on the sum of $6,455,846 commencing the August 31, 2018 until date of final payment.” ....