{"id":23584,"date":"2026-11-02T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/?p=23584"},"modified":"2026-11-02T22:11:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T22:11:25","slug":"reasons-why-sierra-leones-180-billion-west-africa-investment-summit-to-be-on-november-16-18-remains-bios-best-legacy-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/reasons-why-sierra-leones-180-billion-west-africa-investment-summit-to-be-on-november-16-18-remains-bios-best-legacy-drive\/","title":{"rendered":"Reasons Why Sierra Leone\u2019s $180 Billion West Africa Investment Summit To Be On November 16-18, Remains Bio\u2019s Best Legacy Drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

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  1. In an interview with The News during the thick of COVID-19, when President Bio rolled out his strategies to stabilise the economy despite the global catastrophe, he envisioned West African integration and investment as a viable vehicle to actualise the main objectives of ECOWAS founding fathers, as enshrined in the Lagos Treaty in 1975<\/li>\n
  2. \u2060As the immediate past ECOWAS Chairman, Bio engaged in a wide range of diplomatic shuttles and hosted a series of conferences, geared toward promoting a unified regional economic bloc. The recent ECOWAS Heads of State summit in Lungi on July 19, 2026, where far-reaching regional decisions like the establishment of an ECOWAS depot in Lungi, the appointment of Aliko Dangote as chairman of ECOWAS Business Council, hosting of WAIIS on November 17-18, 2026 in Lungi, and many more, are classical reasons among Bio\u2019s best legacies<\/li>\n
  3. \u2060West Africa Integration and Investment Summit WAIIS in Lungi tops the list of his legacy. It will be an assembly of both political and business leaders, with a 180-billion-dollar investment package for closing the infrastructure gaps in West Africa, through a public-private partnership model. WAIIS is an initiative of President Bio when he was ECOWAS chairman<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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      In an interview with The News during the thick of COVID-19, when President Bio rolled out his strategies to stabilise the economy despite the global catastrophe, he envisioned West African integration and investment as a viable vehicle to actualise the main objectives of ECOWAS founding fathers, as enshrined in the Lagos Treaty in 1975 \u2060As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_xspeed_no_cache":false,"_xspeed_expiry_hours":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/President-Bio-and-ECOWAS-Logistics-Depot-150x150.jpeg",150,150,true],"full":["https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/President-Bio-and-ECOWAS-Logistics-Depot.jpeg",757,380,false]},"categories_names":{"9":{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/category\/sierra-leone\/news\/"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23599,"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23584\/revisions\/23599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efdaglobalmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}