{"id":883917,"date":"2026-01-10T06:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/ecowas-to-slash-airfare-eliminate-taxes-by-january\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T06:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T12:22:17","slug":"ecowas-to-slash-airfare-eliminate-taxes-by-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/10\/ecowas-to-slash-airfare-eliminate-taxes-by-january\/","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS to slash airfare, eliminate taxes by January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Effective January 1, 2026, air ticket taxes across West Africa will be removed and air fares slashed by over 20 per cent.\u00a0This formed part of a sweeping regional policy to make air travel affordable and strengthen economic activities.<br \/>\nThe post ECOWAS to slash airfare, eliminate taxes by January appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News &#8211; Nigeria and World News&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/news\/ecowas-to-slash-airfare-eliminate-taxes-by-january\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Bridget Chiedu Onochie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effective January 1, 2026, air ticket taxes across West Africa will be removed and air fares slashed by over 20 per cent.\u00a0This formed part of a sweeping regional policy to make air travel affordable and strengthen economic activities. The post ECOWAS to slash airfare, eliminate taxes by January appeared first on The Guardian Nigeria News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":883918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91686,22991,192],"tags":[91685,17883],"class_list":["post-883917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ecowas","category-slash","category-sports","tag-ecowas","tag-slash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=883917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/883917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/883918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=883917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=883917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=883917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}