{"id":5481,"date":"2025-07-13T19:07:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2025-07-13T19:07:45","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T19:07:45","slug":"tinubu-announces-former-president-buharis-death-directs-vice-president-shettima-to-proceed-to-uk-to-bring-the-corps-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/tinubu-announces-former-president-buharis-death-directs-vice-president-shettima-to-proceed-to-uk-to-bring-the-corps-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Announces former President Buhari&#8217;s death  &#8230;directs Vice President Shettima to proceed to UK to bring the Corps home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By George Mgbeleke <\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the death of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement by Special Adviser to the President on Information &#038; Strategy,Bayo Onanuga on Sunday,  President Buhari died today(Sunday)in London at about 4.30 pm, following a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement,&#8221;Tinubu has spoken with Mrs Aisha Buhari, the former President&#8217;s widow and offered his deep condolences.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Tinubu has also ordered Vice President Kashim Shettima to proceed to the United Kingdom to accompany President Muhammadu Buhari&#8217;s body back to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Former President Buhari was twice elected Nigeria&#8217;s President in 2015 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He also served as military head of state between January 1984 and August 1985.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Tinubu has ordered flags at half-staff as a mark of respect for the departed leader.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By George Mgbeleke President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the death of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari. In a statement by Special Adviser to the President on Information &#038; Strategy,Bayo Onanuga on Sunday, President Buhari died today(Sunday)in London at about 4.30 pm, following a prolonged illness. According to the statement,&#8221;Tinubu has spoken with Mrs Aisha [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[3556,1919,235,2536,1779,2052],"class_list":["post-5481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-accompany","tag-condolences","tag-information","tag-predecessor","tag-prolonged","tag-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyechoes.ng\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}