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

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  • Amaka Jane Ekezie-Joseph

    (Pan African University, Nigeria)

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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).

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  • Amaka Jane Ekezie-Joseph, 2021. "Nigeria’s Implementation of the Ecowas Protocol on Free Movement of Persons – Challenges and Responses," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 5(6), pages 113-120, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bcp:journl:v:5:y:2021:i:6:p:113-120
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    1. Ranganathan, Rupa & Foster, Vivien, 2011. "ECCAS's infrastructure : a regional perspective," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5857, The World Bank.
    2. Ranganathan, Rupa & Foster, Vivien, 2011. "ECOWAS's infrastructure : a regional perspective," Policy Research Working Paper Series 5899, The World Bank.
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