President Bola Tinubu on Thursday departed Abuja for Europe to begin a 10-day working vacation.
His Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed the development in a statement on X, noting that the leave is part of the President’s 2025 annual vacation.
According to the statement, Tinubu will spend the period between France and the United Kingdom before returning to Nigeria.The trip comes shortly after the President’s return from a series of diplomatic engagements in Japan and Brazil.
In Japan, Tinubu attended the opening ceremony and plenary of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), held bilateral meetings, and had an interactive session with Nigerians in the diaspora.
Following TICAD9, the President made a stopover in Los Angeles before heading to Brasília, where he met with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Both leaders held private talks and witnessed the signing of five Memoranda of Understanding covering aviation, foreign affairs, science and technology, and agriculture—sectors central to Nigeria’s development agenda.
