Nigerian Newspaper Headlines, Naija News For Wednesday 19th November 2025

Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines And Naija News For Wednesday 19th November 2025.

1. The crisis rocking the Peoples Democratic Party took another fiery turn on Tuesday as the factional National Executive Committee loyal to the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, ratified the expulsion of Governors Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State, and Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State. The move comes just days after the controversial PDP national convention held in Ibadan, which saw Wike and his loyalists expelled from the party.

2. President Bola Tinubu has dispatched Vice President Kashim Shettima to Kebbi State to meet with grieving families of the schoolgirls abducted from a boarding school in Maga. He also promised that the government is working to ensure their safe and swift return. This is just as he said the abduction took place despite intelligence warnings of a possible strike by the bandits.

3. At least five persons have been killed and several others abducted after suspected bandits launched two separate attacks in Eruku, a boundary town with Kogi State in the Ekiti Local Government Area of Kwara State, on Tuesday. In the first incident, the attackers stormed a branch of the Christ Apostolic Church, CAC, during a special service, shooting sporadically before targeting worshippers.

4. The House of Representatives has pledged to work closely with President Bola Tinubu’s administration to track, assess, and recover abandoned Federal Government properties across Nigeria. Speaker Abbas Tajudeen made the announcement on Tuesday while inaugurating a House Ad-hoc Committee tasked with investigating all abandoned federal landed properties in the country.

5. The newly elected factional National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Kabiru Turaki, has appealed to United States President Donald Trump and the international community to intervene in Nigeria’s worsening political situation. He warned that the nation’s democracy was “under threat” amid an escalating internal crisis within the PDP that erupted into chaos in Abuja.

6. Taraba State Governor, Dr. Agbu Kefas, has postponed his planned defection from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP to the All Progressives Congress, APC following the mass abduction of schoolgirls in Kebbi State. Governor Kefas said he is prioritizing humanity over politics, noting that a new date for the defection rally would be announced later.

7. Nigeria’s external reserves have risen to $46.7 billion as of November 14, 2025, providing 10.3 months of import cover in goods and services. The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN attributed the growth to steady inflows and renewed investor participation across different asset classes.

8. Scores of members of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Ondo State have defected to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, pledging their support for President Bola Tinubu’s 2027 re-election bid. The defectors, who are grassroots mobilisers drawn from the 18 local government areas of the state, said they could no longer remain in the “crisis-ridden” PDP with what they described as a weakened leadership structure.

9. The Nigerian Army on Tuesday confirmed the death of a soldier who was fatally attacked by a mentally unstable man in the Imota area of Ikorodu, Lagos. The attacker, the Army said, was killed by other soldiers at the scene who intervened. A statement by the spokesman for the 81 Division Nigerian Army, Lt. Col. Musa Yahaya, said the incident occurred on November 16, around 4pm.

10. The Nasarawa State Police Command has arrested a 40-year-old man, Maro Ebojoh, for his alleged involvement in organ harvesting in the state. The state Commissioner of Police, Shetima Mohammed, made the disclosure during a press briefing at the command’s headquarters on Tuesday in Lafia, the state capital.