{"id":262654,"date":"2025-07-13T22:22:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262654\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T22:22:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T22:22:16","slug":"nigerias-former-president-muhammadu-buhari-82-dies-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262654\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s former president Muhammadu Buhari, 82, dies in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, who led Africa\u2019s most populous country from 2015 to 2023 and was the first Nigerian president to oust an incumbent through the ballot box, died in London on Sunday, a presidential spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cPresident Buhari died today in London \u2026 following a prolonged illness,\u201d President Bola Tinubu\u2019s spokesman said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The spokesman said Tinubu had directed Vice-President Kashim Shettima and his chief of staff to travel to London to collect and accompany 82-year-old Buhari\u2019s body back to Nigeria for burial.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A Muslim, Buhari was expected to be buried according to Muslim rites in his home state of northwestern Katsina, government officials said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Buhari first led the country as a military ruler after a coup in the 1980s. He earned a devoted following for his brand of anti-corruption conviction politics.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He referred to himself as a \u201cconverted democrat\u201d and swapped his military uniform for kaftans and prayer caps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, who led Africa\u2019s most populous country from 2015 to 2023 and was the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7757],"tags":[2740,52293,748,100441,100439,393,100436,4884,100435,10647,83294,257,100438,3007,100437,16,15,100440],"class_list":["post-262654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-london","tag-africa","tag-boko-haram","tag-britain","tag-chibok","tag-daura","tag-england","tag-goodluck-jonathan","tag-great-britain","tag-ibrahim-babangida","tag-imf","tag-katsina","tag-london","tag-niger-delta","tag-nigeria","tag-president-bola-tinubu","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-vice-president-kashim-shettima"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114848264540852731","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}