…Directs military, Police to deploy more men to Kwara
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has postponed his scheduled trip to Johannesburg, South Africa and Luanda, Angola, as he awaits further security briefings on the kidnapped Kebbi schoolgirls and the attack on Christ Apostolic Church worshippers in Eruku, Kwara State.
The President was supposed to have jetted out of Nigeria yesterday, Wednesday, November 19, 2025 for a two nation trip that would have taken him to Johannesburg, South Africa and later, Luanda, Angola.
But, according to a statement by Bayo Onanuga, his Special Adviser (Information and Strategy), President Tinubu, put off the trips to personally monitor the security situation in the country, receive briefings from top security chiefs and direct deployment of military and police personnel as appropriate.
These are coming in the wake of the ambush, capture and killing of Brigadier General Uba and some of his men in Borno, the attack on a school in Kebbi State where 25 schoolgirls were abducted, the Vice Principal killed and another staff of the school injured, another attack in Zamfara state were several persons were abducted and some killed, and the brazen attack on a Church in Kwara state, all by terrorists.
These attacks are taking place against the backdrop of a recent declaration of Nigeria as Country of Particular Concern (CPC) by President Donald Trump of the United States and his threat to impose severe sanctions on the country that could include military action against terrorists for genocide against Christians by Islamic terrorists.
To bring the Nigerian security crisis to further global attention, the United States Representative to the United Nations (UN), Ambassador Waltz, on Tuesday, November 19, 2025, organized a high-profile event at the UN that featured an internationally renowned music star, Nicki Minaj, where she, and the panelists that spoke after her keynote presentation, denounced the activities of the terrorists in Nigeria and spoke of the need for intervention to stop the bloodletting.
These, and the criticisms that followed the dispatch of Vice President Kashim Shettima to a political event in Kogi state, hours after the abduction of the Kebbi schoolgirls, criticisms that must have led to the cancellation of another political event where the Taraba State Governor was to be welcomed into the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), a credible source said, caused the President to abort his trip a few hours to take-off.
According to his statement, Onanuga said that Tinubu, in response to the request by the governor of Kwara State, has ordered the deployment of more security men to the attacked Eruku and the entire Ekiti Local Government Area of the Kwara state, and directed the police to go after the bandits who attacked the worshippers.
President Tinubu was scheduled to leave Abuja yesterday to attend the 20th G20 Summit of leaders in South Africa and thereafter proceed to Luanda to attend the 7th AU-EU Summit.
He said further that “disturbed by the security breaches in Kebbi State and Tuesday’s attack by bandits against worshippers at Christ Apostolic Church, Eruku, President Tinubu decided to suspend his departure.
“He now awaits reports from Vice President Kashim Shettima, who paid a sympathy visit to Kebbi on his behalf, as well as reports from the police and the Department of State Services regarding the attack in Kwara.
“President Tinubu reiterates his directive to the security agencies to do everything possible to rescue the 24 schoolgirls, abducted by the bandits and bring the girls back home, safe.”
