{"id":70506,"date":"2025-07-13T18:09:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70506"},"modified":"2025-07-13T18:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T18:09:15","slug":"tinubu-mourns-buhari-sends-shettima-to-bring-back-ex-presidents-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/13\/tinubu-mourns-buhari-sends-shettima-to-bring-back-ex-presidents-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Mourns Buhari, Sends Shettima to Bring Back Ex-President\u2019s Body\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari, who passed away in London on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at approximately 4:30 p.m., after a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued from the State House, President Tinubu expressed deep sorrow and extended his condolences to the Buhari family, following a personal conversation with the late President\u2019s widow, Mrs. Aisha Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>As a mark of national mourning, President Tinubu has ordered that flags fly at half-mast across the country.<\/p>\n<p>He also directed Vice President Kashim Shettima to immediately travel to the United Kingdom to escort the late former president\u2019s body back to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, who served as Nigeria\u2019s civilian president from 2015 to 2023, previously ruled as military head of state from January 1984 to August 1985.<\/p>\n<p>His death marks the end of a significant chapter in Nigeria\u2019s political history.<\/p>\n<p>Details of funeral arrangements will be announced in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>The statement was signed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari, who passed away in London on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at approximately 4:30 p.m., after a prolonged illness. In a statement issued from the State House, President Tinubu expressed deep sorrow and extended his condolences to the Buhari family, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":70507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-70506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70508,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70506\/revisions\/70508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}