Nigeria, July 1 -- President Bola Tinubu has urged West African leaders to move beyond fragmentation and missed opportunities, working towards deeper regional integration, collaboration, and shared prosperity.

Mr Tinubu, while speaking at the just concluded inaugural West Africa Economic Summit (WAES) in Abuja, emphasised that West Africa is one of the last great frontiers of economic growth, but opportunity alone does not guarantee transformation.

"Opportunity is not destiny. We must earn it through vision, integration, policy coherence, collaboration, and capital alignment. Intra-regional trade remains under 10 per cent, a challenge we can no longer afford to ignore. The low trade is not due to a failure of will but a coordination fai...