Ousman Darboe,  News Editor at the Daily Observer,  also the Business and Finance columnist, yesterday left Banjul for Accra, Ghana to attend a weeklong 1st Ecowas Business Forum.

The theme of the conference, is centred on; Harnessing Private Sector Energy's for the Challenges of Integration.
The conference is the first of its kind, to be sponsored by the newly established bank, in The Gambia banking industry, Ecobank, which is a regional banking institution.  The conference is to be held at La Palm Royal Hotel, Accra, attracting about 200 participants from the Ecowas member states.

The conference also includes business people, government officials, and many other dignitaries, as well as paticipants from other international organisations.
Ecobank, organised the conference, in collaboration with UEMOA Commission, ECA, SRO-WA, USAID, UN-ECA and Ghana National Chamber of Commerce.

Speaking to the Daily Observer newspaper, Editor Darboe thanked and appluaded Ecobank for selecting him to attend the conference, which, he said, will widen his journalistic profession in terms of business and financial reporting. He also thanked the management and staff of Observer Company for allowing him to attend the forum to broaden his horizons in the job.

The conference, he added, is the first of its kind for Ecobank to organise the first-ever 1st Ecowas Business Forum. "Ecobank has fulfiled its social responsibilities in order to help or organise, such a forum. The banks should not only be here to make profits, but should also invest in people in order to capacitise them and boost their morale and well-being", he concluded.