•Armed Nigerian soldiers No fewer than 16 military officers indicted for plotting to overthrow President Bola Tinubu are facing capital punishment ranging from life imprisonment to death penalty. This is coming after the military high command admitted that the officers who have been in detention since October 2025 were found guilty of the offe...
•Fernando Dias da Costa Nigeria has granted asylum to Guinea-Bissau opposition presidential candidate Fernando Dias da Costa and provided him protection at its embassy in the capital Bissau, following alleged threats to his life after a military coup. In a letter dated November 30 to the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)...
•Deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló Guinea-Bissau’s deposed president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has arrived in Senegal, the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has confirmed, a day after a group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau seized power in a coup. Senegal’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement last night night that Embalo had arriv...
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has suspended Guinea-Bissau from its decision-making bodies over a coup in the West African country. ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council (MSC) took the decision after an emergency meeting late yesterday, reports AFP. “The MSC decides, in accordance with the provisions of the ECOWAS Proto...
•Brigadier General Denis N’Canha (C) addressing the press yesterday Guinea-Bissau’s military today appointed a General as the country’s new leader for the duration of one year, a day after seizing power, arresting the president, and derailing the announcement of election results. Soldiers patrolled the area around the presidential palace in B...
•Soldiers The sudden announcement of a coup d’état in Guinea‑Bissau has left international election observer missions and former Heads of Government caught in the middle of a volatile post‑election crisis. Military officers in Guinea-Bissau declared they have “total control” of the country yesterday, closing its borders and suspending its elec...
•Soldiers Military officers in Guinea-Bissau have announced today they are taking “total control” of the country while suspending its electoral process and closing its borders, three days after the poverty-stricken West African nation’s legislative and presidential elections. Earlier in the day, gunfire was heard near the coup-prone country’s ...
•Timipre Sylva The Special Assistant on Media and Public Affairs to ex-Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva, Julius Bokoru, has dismissed reports linking his principal to an alleged coup plot, describing them as baseless and politically motivated. Bokoru, in a statement issued today, said the rumours circulating in so...
•Abimbola Adelakun The Defence Headquarters officially disproved the story of a planned coup in Nigeria, but that has not made it any less believable. The cancellation of Independence Day activities to opt for a “low-key” celebration, which excuses the president from appearing in public, suggests that the media reports might be on to something...
•Tinubu and Chief of Defence Staff, General Christopher Musa The Defence Headquarters (DHQ) has described as misleading a report by an online publication insinuating that the cancellation of activities marking Nigeria’s 65th Independence Anniversary was linked to an alleged attempted military coup. The report claimed that 16 military officers,...
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