President Bola Tinubu will on Tuesday, September 16, return to Abuja to resume official duties after ending his vacation earlier than scheduled.
Bayo Onanuga, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, confirmed the development in a statement on Monday.
Onanuga’s statement partly reads, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has concluded his work vacation ahead of schedule and will return to Abuja on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, to resume official duties.”
He added that “last week in Paris, President Tinubu held a private luncheon with his French counterpart, President Emmanuel Macron, at the Elysee Palace. Both leaders reviewed key areas of cooperation between Nigeria and France and agreed to deepen the partnership for mutual prosperity and global stability.”
Tinubu had departed Nigeria for France on September 4, 2025, to spend part of his annual holiday.
The president was initially scheduled to split the period between France and the United Kingdom.
While in Paris, Tinubu had a private lunch with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Élysée Palace.
Both leaders reportedly reviewed key areas of bilateral cooperation and decided to enhance collaborations in the interests of mutual prosperity and global stability.
This is Tinubu’s sixth journey to Paris since taking office in May 2023 and his first since the July BRICS summit and the August TICAD9 in Japan.
In the first nine months of 2025, the president made 15 international trips to 11 countries.
These include high-level summits, bilateral meetings, presidential inaugurations, and annual leave.
Tinubu began his diplomatic trip on January 6 with a visit to Ghana’s capital, Accra, to attend President-elect John Dramani Mahama’s inauguration on January 7.
He was in the United Arab Emirates from January 12 to 16, attending the Abu Dhabi Sustainability Summit and holding side discussions with Gulf investors and officials about trade and energy cooperation.
He traveled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on January 27 and 28 to attend the Africa Heads of State Energy Summit.
In February, the president visited France before attending the 37th African Union Summit in Ethiopia, where he met with other African leaders to discuss regional security, climate adaptation, and continental trade integration under the AfCFTA.
Tinubu went on a two-week working visit to France and the United Kingdom from April 2 to April 21.
In mid-May, the president visited Vatican City to attend Pope Leo XIV’s historic inauguration in Rome.
From June 28 to July 4, Tinubu made a historic state visit to Saint Lucia, where he addressed CARICOM leaders in Castries.
He flew from Saint Lucia to Brazil, where he attended the 17th BRICS Summit.
The Brazil tour extended into August, with President Tinubu returning for a two-day state visit.
This happened after he visited Japan in the same month to attend the Tokyo International Conference on African Development, where he promoted Nigeria’s investment readiness to Japanese companies and spoke with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida about maritime security and digital infrastructure.
Tinubu and his entourage visited Dubai, UAE, on August 15 and landed in Yokohama early on August 18.
It was his second visit to the Gulf state this year.
In September, he returned to the United Kingdom and France for a working vacation, his third trip to Paris this year and his second to London.
