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  "id": 8229157,
  "title": "‘ECOWAS Biometric Card ‘ll Enhance Travel, Free Trade in Member States’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/ecowas-biometric-card-ll-enhance-travel-free-trade-in-member-states",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-18T08:32:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/09/18/ecowas-biometric-card-ll-enhance-travel-free-trade-in-member-states/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Sunday Okobi International Organisation for Migrants (IOM), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), as well as other stakeholders in the West African region, including, mainly, ECOWAS, have enumerated the huge benefits of",
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        "outlet": "This Day",
        "title": "ECOWAS Biometric Card Will Ease Travel, Enhance Free Trade in Member States, Say IOM, NIS, ECOWAS",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/18/ecowas-biometric-card-will-ease-travel-enhance-free-trade-in-member",
        "published": "2026-09-18T02:44:51.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}