President Muhammadu Buhari has again stressed the need for greater regional and international cooperation to defeat terrorism in Nigeria and other nations.
Buhari spoke at the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja yesterday while meeting with ECOWAS Commission President Kadre Desire Ouedraogo.
He welcomed efforts to strengthen and expand cooperation between the ECOWAS and the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS) on anti-terrorism war.
He said Nigeria would hold further consultations with other stakeholders in order to agree on a new date for the ECOWAS-ECCAS security summit on Boko Haram, earlier scheduled to hold in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on April 8, 2015.
The summit had been postponed because of the general elections conducted in Nigeria on March 28 and April 11, 2015.
Buhari said Nigeria would also continue to fulfill its financial obligations to ECOWAS in order to enhance the regional body's ability to attain its objective of regional integration and development.
He lauded the ECOWAS commission and other ECOWAS institutions for progress made on the Biometric Identity Card System which, he said, would come into force in 2016.
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