{"id":865230,"date":"2025-08-14T21:17:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/tinubu-announces-buharis-death-orders-shettima-to-uk-to-accompany-body-back-home\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:17:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:17:35","slug":"tinubu-announces-buharis-death-orders-shettima-to-uk-to-accompany-body-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/tinubu-announces-buharis-death-orders-shettima-to-uk-to-accompany-body-back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu announces Buhari\u2019s death, orders Shettima to UK to accompany body back home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>By DAVID IORJA, Abuja-<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the passing of his predecessor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaccordnewspaper.com\/former-president-muhammadu-buhari-is-dead\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaccordnewspaper.com\/former-president-muhammadu-buhari-is-dead\/\">President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Buhari died today in London at about 4.30 pm, following a prolonged illness.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu has spoken with Mrs Aishat Buhari, the former President\u2019s widow and offered his deep condolences.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu in a statement issued by his spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, has also ordered Vice President Kashim Shettima to proceed to the United Kingdom to accompany President Muhammadu Buhari\u2019s body back to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Buhari was twice elected Nigeria\u2019s President in 2015 and 2019.<\/p>\n<p>He also served as military head of state between January 1984 and August 1985.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu has ordered flags at half-staff as a mark of respect for the departed leader.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalaccordnewspaper.com\/tinubu-announces-buharis-death-orders-shettima-to-uk-to-accompany-body-back-home\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By DAVID IORJA, Abuja- President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the passing of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari died today in London at about 4.30 pm, following a prolonged illness. President Tinubu has spoken with Mrs Aishat Buhari, the former President\u2019s widow and offered his deep condolences. President Tinubu in a statement issued<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":865231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[551,99081],"tags":[6410,99080],"class_list":{"0":"post-865230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-announces","8":"category-tinubu","9":"tag-announces","10":"tag-tinubu"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}