{"id":70607,"date":"2025-07-14T21:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T21:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70607"},"modified":"2025-07-15T04:17:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T04:17:18","slug":"buhari-to-be-buried-tuesday-in-daura-gov-radda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/14\/buhari-to-be-buried-tuesday-in-daura-gov-radda\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari to Be Buried Today in Daura -Gov Radda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has announced that the burial of former President Muhammadu Buhari will take place on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in his hometown of Daura.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing journalists at the Government House in Katsina on Monday, Radda stated that Buhari\u2019s body will arrive in Katsina by 12 noon and will be laid to rest in Daura by 2:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe burial arrangement for our father, the late president, who passed away yesterday in a hospital in London, has been concluded after consultations with his family and associates in London,\u201d Radda said. \u201cThe body will arrive in Katsina by 12 noon tomorrow, and the burial will take place in Daura at about 2:00 p.m.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Governor Radda extended his condolences to the Buhari family, the people of Nigeria, and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of myself, and the government and people of Katsina State, we condole the family, the entire nation, and especially His Excellency, the President. May Almighty Allah give us the fortitude to bear the loss,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari, aged 82, died on Sunday, July 13, in a London hospital. In the wake of his death, President Tinubu directed Vice President Kashim Shettima and Chief of Staff Femi Gbajabiamila to accompany the late president\u2019s remains back to Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State has announced that the burial of former President Muhammadu Buhari will take place on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, in his hometown of Daura. Addressing journalists at the Government House in Katsina on Monday, Radda stated that Buhari\u2019s body will arrive in Katsina by 12 noon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70607","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70607"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70620,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70607\/revisions\/70620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}