Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has declared a state of emergency across West Africa due to a series of recent coups and failed mutinies in the region. This announcement was made by ECOWAS Commission President Omar Touray during the 55th session of the Mediation and Security Council...
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Benin Republic’s President Patrice Talon has praised the country’s military leadership for swiftly crushing an attempted coup on Sunday, promising that those behind the plot will face justice. Hours after a group of renegade soldiers — calling themselves the Military Committee for Refoundation — stormed state television, announced the...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has commended the gallantry of Nigeria’s military on Sunday for responding swiftly to the request by the Government of Benin Republic to save its 35-year-old democracy from coup plotters who struck at dawn today. Acting on two separate requests from the Government of Benin, President...
Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has directed the immediate deployment of elements of its regional Standby Force to the Republic of Benin, following heightened security concerns triggered by the recently foiled coup attempt in the country. The directive was announced in a communique issued on Sunday in...
Nigeria has launched a series of coordinated precision airstrikes targeting fleeing members of the recently foiled coup attempt in the Benin Republic, according to details obtained by security analyst Zagazola Makama. Makama, citing high-level security sources, reported that the air operation focused on elements of the coup faction attempting...
Nigerian military has deployed fighter aircraft to the Benin Republic following Sunday’s military coup that toppled President Patrice Talon, reliable security sources have confirmed. The aircraft, which took off from Lagos earlier on Sunday, were sighted operating within Beninese airspace as Nigeria intensifies surveillance and monitoring of the rapidly...
Authorities in the Republic of Benin has said the attempted coup launched in the early hours of Sunday has been decisively crushed, with the ringleader, Colonel Pascal Tigri, now on the run. The dramatic events began when a handful of mutinous soldiers stormed the National Television station in Cotonou,...
Nigeria has stepped into a tense political moment in Guinea-Bissau, granting temporary asylum to opposition presidential hopeful Fernando Dia Da Costa, who is currently taking refuge inside the Nigerian Embassy in Bissau. The move follows mounting security concerns and credible threats to his life as the country edges toward...
In a sharp critique of regional election oversight, former Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi has accused ECOWAS of applying a “double standard” following political upheavals in Guinea-Bissau and technical disruptions during Nigeria’s elections. Obi in a post on his verified X handle on Sunday, eflected on the unfolding...
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Saturday hosted former President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, shortly after Jonathan returned from a tense assignment in Guinea-Bissau. Jonathan had been in the West African nation leading an election observation mission, a role that unexpectedly drew public concern when news...
Guinea-Bissau’s former president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has resurfaced in Senegal after days of uncertainty following the military coup that removed him from office earlier in the week. Senegal’s foreign ministry confirmed late Friday that Embaló arrived in Dakar on Thursday night aboard a chartered military aircraft. Officials described him...
1. With seven military coups occurring across Africa within four years, concerns about the prospects of military intervention have re-emerged in Nigeria, particularly amidst widespread national hardship, insecurity and public disenchantment. Yet, Nigeria’s historical trajectory of military rule, withdrawal and civilian transition, reveals a distinctive pattern not...
The military in the West African coastal state of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday announced that it had installed a new leader. State broadcaster TGB reported that General Horta Inta-A is to serve as transitional president for a one-year period. Much remains unclear about the balance of power in the country...
Former Nigerian leader, Goodluck Jonathan, has found himself unexpectedly stranded in Guinea-Bissau after the tiny West African nation lurched into yet another bout of political turbulence. Jonathan was part of a 36-member high-level observer mission drawn from the African Union (AU), ECOWAS, and the West African Elders Forum (WAEF)....
Guinea-Bissau was thrown into fresh uncertainty on Wednesday as senior military officers declared they had seized “total control” of the country, abruptly shutting all borders and freezing the ongoing election process. The announcement came just three days after citizens cast their ballots in tightly watched presidential and legislative polls....
The Department of State Services (DSS), has filed a six-count charge against a 27-year old man, Innocent Chukwuemeka Onukwume, for among others, allegedly advocating for a military coup in the country. The DSS, in the charge, filed before the Federal High Court in Abujja, marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/610/2025, said Onukwume, of...
Fresh details have emerged regarding the government’s cautious public communication strategy following the recent uncovering of an alleged coup plot, with a senior legal luminary in President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s cabinet reportedly advising authorities against publicly labelling the incident a “coup.” PRNigeria gathered that this legal advice was issued...
After nearly four decades in uniform, the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa (rtd), has assured Nigerians that the nation’s security remains in safe and competent hands. Speaking during his valedictory remarks at his Pulling-Out Parade held on Friday in Abuja, Gen. Musa described the...
The immediate past Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Retired Gen. Christopher Musa, has said Nigeria is a nation worth fighting for, urging soldiers to remain steadfast in their commitment to national security. Musa made the call on Friday in Abuja, during an emotional Pulling-Out Parade in his honour after...
As military investigators continue probing the foiled coup plot against President Bola Tinubu’s administration, PREMIUM TIMES has exclusively obtained details of the identities of 16 of the top military officers allegedly involved in the failed attempt. Sources with details of the ongoing investigations earlier told this medium that 14...