November 19, 2025 – Nigeria Headlines

Story gist: PDP governors are resisting Nyesom Wike’s attempt to take over the PDP national secretariat. The conflict involves party leadership in Nigeria.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets provide no coverage, omitting any progressive perspective on internal PDP disputes. Center outlets like Punch Newspapers frame the story with dramatic language such as ‘high-stakes faceoff,’ emphasizing confrontation and resistance by governors against Wike. Right-leaning outlets also lack coverage, leaving conservative viewpoints on party power struggles absent.

Story gist: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu confirmed the death of Brigadier General Musa Uba.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provide no coverage of the story, leaving progressive and conservative perspectives absent. Center outlets like BBC report the confirmation factually with neutral tone, emphasizing the official statement without additional context, analysis, or implications for military or political stability in Nigeria.

Story gist: Nigeria’s APC criticized PDP’s Kabiru Turaki, the new party chairman, for calling for foreign intervention in national issues, labeling the statement reckless. The incident occurred amid Turaki’s recent appointment to the PDP leadership.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets provided no coverage, omitting any defense or contextualization of Turaki’s position from a pro-opposition perspective. Center outlets, like BBC, framed the story neutrally as one of four challenges facing the new PDP chairman, emphasizing structural issues without partisan tone. Right-leaning outlets also absent, missing potential emphasis on APC’s rebuke to highlight opposition recklessness.

Story gist: Gunmen raided a high school in Kebbi, northwestern Nigeria, killing the vice principal and abducting 25 female students. The incident occurred recently in the town of Danko-Wasagu.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets like Sahara Reporters frame the story politically, emphasizing government failure and demands for President Tinubu’s resignation, highlighting ethnic and class biases in security responses. Center outlets like AP News provide neutral, factual reporting focused on the abduction event without blame. Right-leaning coverage is absent, indicating no prominent perspectives from conservative sources on this security incident.

Story gist: World Antimicrobial Resistance Awareness Week 2025 is observed globally with the theme ‘Act Now, to protect our present and secure our future.’ The event promotes awareness of antimicrobial resistance through coordinated international efforts.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets omitted coverage, absenting perspectives on equity in global health access or linking resistance to climate policy. Right-leaning sources also lacked reports, missing emphases on pharmaceutical innovation, deregulation, or economic impacts. Center outlet ReliefWeb framed the story neutrally, highlighting the theme and urgency of action without partisan tone or omissions of key facts.