November 24, 2025 – Nigeria Headlines

Story gist: Kwara State governor received 38 church abductees freed from captivity. He stated it is not yet time to celebrate.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets omitted the story, providing no coverage or perspective. Center outlet Vatican News framed it as Nigeria’s third attack in three days, emphasizing ongoing insecurity and pattern of violence rather than the abductees’ release or governor’s reception.

Story gist: Nigerian Vice President Kashim Shettima departed South Africa to represent President Bola Tinubu at the African Union-European Union summit in Luanda, Angola. The Sahrawi Republic participated in the experts meeting of the 7th summit.

Bias summary: Left-leaning outlets emphasize the Sahrawi Republic’s participation in the summit experts meeting, highlighting its involvement via its news agency. Center outlets focus neutrally on Shettima’s travel from South Africa to represent Tinubu. Right-leaning coverage is absent, leaving conservative perspectives on the event unrepresented.

Story gist: Nnamdi Kanu, a Nigerian separatist leader, was sentenced to life imprisonment for terrorism. His former counsel blamed the conviction on the legal team’s lack of strategy.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provided no coverage, leaving those perspectives absent. Center outlet BBC frames the story neutrally, emphasizing Kanu’s identity as a separatist leader and his life sentence for terrorism, with a factual tone focused on the court outcome. No mention of the ex-counsel’s criticism of the defense strategy appears in the center headline.

Story gist: Nigerian President Bola Tinubu ordered police officers guarding VIPs returned to community policing duties.

Bias summary: Left- and right-leaning outlets provided no coverage, omitting their perspectives entirely. Center outlet Punch Newspapers framed it neutrally as ‘Tinubu orders withdrawal of police guards from VIPs,’ focusing on redeployment without added tone, emphasis on VIP protection reduction, or community benefits.

Story gist: Gunmen abducted 50 students from a school in Nigeria. A Christian group reported that the students escaped.

Bias summary: Left-leaning Al Jazeera emphasizes a Christian group’s report and specifies ‘gunmen’ abduction of ‘students.’ Center BBC highlights the successful ‘escape’ of ‘fifty children’ after a ‘mass school abduction,’ focusing on positive outcome. Right-leaning coverage absent, omitting any conservative framing that might emphasize security failures or banditry context.