 Nigeria and the economic community of West African states, ECOWAS, has signed a memorandum of understanding MOU on the National Early Warning and Response Mechanism, Senior Special Assistant to the Vice President on Media and Publicity, Laulu Akwande. Let's close this in a statement on Wednesday in Abocha. According to the statement, the Vice President signed for Nigeria while President of the ECOWAS Commission Jan Claude Bro signed on behalf of the regional body on Tuesday at the presidential villa Abocha. The MOU consolidated discussions by the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of States and Governments at its 45th ordinary session in Akra, Ghana in July 2014. NEWS OPDATES