Breaking: Tinubu Appoints Ex-CDS Musa as New Minister of Defence, Sends Letter to Senate
- President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed a new Minister of Defence to replace Abubakar Badaru, who resigned on Monday, December 1, 2025
- Tinubu nominated former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Gwabin Musa, as the minister to replace Badaru
- Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to President Tinubu on Information and Strategy, shared more details about the appointment
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FCT, Abuja - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated General Christopher Gwabin Musa as the new Minister of Defence to replace Abubakar Badaru.
Legit.ng reports that Badaru resigned his appointment as Nigeria's minister of defense with immediate effect on Monday, December 1, 2025.
Source: Twitter
President Tinubu conveyed General Musa’s nomination as Badaru’s successor in a letter sent to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President, Information and Strategy, made this known in a statement issued via his X handle on Tuesday, December 2, 2025.
President Tinubu expressed confidence in General Musa’s ability to lead the Ministry of Defence and further strengthen Nigeria’s security architecture.
Who is General Christopher Musa?
General Musa served as Chief of Defence Staff from 2023 until October 2025. He won the Colin Powell Award for Soldiering in 2012.
The distinguished soldier was commissioned into the Nigerian Army as a Second Lieutenant in 1991 and has since had a distinguished career.
He enrolled at the Nigerian Defence Academy in 1986 and earned a Bachelor of Science degree upon graduation in 1991.
General Musa, who will be 58, on December 25, was born in Sokoto in 1967.
Nigerians react as Tinubu appoints Musa as defense minister
@OgbeniDipo
Good luck in your new role General CG Musa (Rtd), a fine gentleman, diligent officer and a patriotic non-terrorist sympathiser.
@ChidiNwatu
I noticed how a high majority of Nigerians were advocating for General Christopher Musa (rtd) as Minister of Defence. That’s what competence gets you, and I pray God’s grace, strength, and protection for him & wish him all the best.
@Eze_Ndi_Eze
He is a native of Southern Kaduna which has been greatly affected by terrorism hence it is expected of him to crush them.
@Usmanrdabai
From CDS to Defence Minister… General Musa just leveled up the Nigerian military career ladder.
@oguchea
Good decision, you see most Nigerians support this, when a good decision is made it unites us better than a political decision screaming with incompetence and compromise but it still hurts that it took a foreigner to get the president to sit up.
@EjoOnyishi
Trump tweets in action and Tinubu is now sitting up. This is the only appointment from Tinubu that's based on merit unlike his ambassadorial list full of failed and corrupt politicians.
@ahmad61017
I love this. Thank you Mr. President. Muslims and Christians love him and advocate for him. No tribalism! I pray Nigerians will continue this act. Conpetence!!!!!@Cristopher Musa, you could see the natural love, so Nigerians first, their lives need protection from terrorists!
Source: Twitter
Tension as bandits exchange gunfire with soldiers
Recall that a combative exchange between security operatives and armed bandits occurred on the Oshokoshoko–Obajana highway in Kogi state.
Many travellers were trapped for hours as vehicles parked helplessly in long queues on Monday, December 1, 2025.
Kogi state has recorded kidnapping and bandit attacks in recent days, the latest was an attack on a church during Sunday service.
Bandits attack Kogi church, kidnap pastor, wife
Legit.ng also reported that gunmen attacked the newly established Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Ejiba, Yagba West Local Government Area of Kogi State.
The armed bandits attacked worshippers during church service on Sunday, November 30, 2025.
It was gathered that the community was thrown into chaos following the bandits' attack on the church.
Source: Legit.ng
