2872. 🇳🇬 Nigeria Commemorates The 50th anniversary of ECOWAS.

 

New issues -

🇳🇬 Nigeria postal service -

12 February 2026 - 50th anniversary of ECOWAS (joint issue with the postal services of other ECOWAS member states) - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ****.

The stamp is also included in a multi-national sheetlet of 12 different stamps - one each from the 12 member states - Commonwealth countries - Togo, The Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria - plus  Benin, Côte D’Ivoire, Guinea, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Liberia and the Cape Verde Islands. The specialist dealer of Nigerian stamps, C J Tern, is currently offering this interesting items on his internet site for a little over £50.

🇼🇸 Samoa Post -

2025, possibly August - Previously issued stamp with $3.00 surcharge applied in black. This illustration is taken from Zirinsky Stamps internet site where it has been featured recently. Rating:- ****5.

🇮🇳 India Post -

16 February 2026 - Centenary of Ol Chiki script by Pandit Raghunath Murmu - 1 stamp. Rating:- ***.

🇲🇼 Malawi Post -

?2025 - Another surcharge on the previously issued Butterfly definitives (K960 on K60) which I have overlooked. Thanks to Anonymous for drawing my attention to this stamp.

🇬🇬 Guernsey Post -

🇨🇶 Products inscribed Sark -

1 April 2026 - ‘An Artist’s View of Sark’ - Art by Louise Hill and lithographed by Brebner Print and perforated 14. Cost of set - £16.38. An attractive set but far too expensive, Rating:- *.

2807 🇲🇺 Mauritius Commemorates World Expo 2025.

 

New issues -

🇲🇺 Mauritius Post -

9 October 2025 - 9 October 2025 - World Expo 2025, World Post Day - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

🇮🇳 India Post -

My stamps (personalised stamps with attached labels printed in sheetlets of 12 and sold at a premium) -

2025 - Centenary of Barrister Bhaurao alias Rabjahau Khobaragade, Politician and Buddhist - 1 stamp.

2025 - 20th anniversary of the Xander Group - 1 stamp.

2025 - Classical Marathi Language Honour Day - 1 stamp.

12 October 2025 - Commemoration of Shri Sitaram Maroo - 1 stamp. Rating:- **.

🇱🇰 Sri Lanka Post -

6 October 2025 - 50th anniversary of the University of Jaffna - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

9 October 2025 - World Post Day - 1 stamp. Lithographed. Rating:- ***.

2738. 🇨🇦 Further Canadian Stamps Celebrate Indigenous Groups Leaders.

 

New issues -

🇨🇦 Canada Post -

20 June 2025 - Indigenous community leaders, Sophie McDougall, champion of Métis culture in Canada and Bruce Starlight, preserver of the Tsúut’inà language - 2 self-adhesive stamps each printed in booklets of 6. Designed by Andrew Perro (Bruce Starlight stamp) and by Andrew Perro from an illustration by Jennifer Farris (Sophie McDougall stamp) and printed by Lowe Martin. Rating:- ****.

🇹🇹 T&T Post (postal service of Trinidad and Tobago) -

?2025 - 50th anniversary of CARICOM (which occurred in 2023) - 1 stamp. Previously issued definitive stamp with overprint and surcharge applied. Rating:- *****.

2689. 🇧🇩 Bangladesh Commemorates Uprising Of July 2024.

 

New Issues -

🇧🇩 Bangladesh Post -

30 December 2024 - Festival of Youth - 1 stamp. Lithographed by The Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd, Gazipur. Rating:- ***.

9 February 2025 - The July Uprising which led to the overthrow of the prime minister Sheikh Hasina - 1 stamp. Lithographed by Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd, Gazipur. Rating:- *****. A modest stamp commemorating a highly significant historical event.

19 February 2025 - Mother Language Day - 1 stamp. Designed by Md Boni Adam and lithographed by Security Printing Corporation (Bangladesh) Ltd, Gazipur. Perforated 12.5. Rating:- **.

Trump and The Commonwealth.

  There has been a lot of nonsense published in the press in the past day or so about the President of the United States, Trump, expressing the view that he would like his country to become an Associate Member of The Commonwealth. This idea is said to have arisen from the suggestion that the Royal Commonwealth Society has issued a secret invitation for The United States to take on such a role. The Royal Commonwealth Society is not the sort of organisation that can issue invitations to countries to join The Commonwealth; there is no ‘Associate Membership’ status in The Commonwealth: The King is not in a position to invite countries to join The Commonwealth - it is necessary for all 56 Member States together to extend an invitation to join and when the United States President is talking about an important Commonwealth country such as Canada becoming the 51st state of the USA very much against its citizens’ will, then these reports are clearly nothing short of Trumpery moonshine.

  All this fake news, to use Trump’s own expression, comes as the United States Postal Service has announced that it intends to issue a sheetlet of 15 self-adhesive stamps showing battlefields of the rebellion against the British Crown which began with the Battles of Lexington and Concord fought on 19 April 1765, 250 years ago. Trump claims to admire King Charles III rather more than his predecessors seem to have admired King George III.

Post scriptum - a comment from Ian/Norvic which I accidentally deleted - 

2573. 🇮🇲🇰🇮 Manx Crows And Kiribati Coconuts.

New issues -

🇮🇲 Isle Of Man Post Office -

30 September 2024 - ‘Celtic corvids’, species of crow and their names in Manx - 6 stamps. Designed by EJC Design from artwork by Julia Ashby Smyth and lithographed by bpost and perforated 11.5. Total price of the set - £11.07. Rating:- *.

🇰🇮 Kiribati postal service -

September 2024 - The coconut industry - 6 stamps and 1 miniature sheet containing a single stamp. Lithographed. This issue is currently offered sale on E Bay the Norwegian dealer, Spectre of Stamps. Rating:- ****.