{"id":33122,"date":"2017-03-10T16:06:24","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/muhammadu-buhari-returns-to-nigeria-after-london\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T16:06:13","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T16:06:13","slug":"muhammadu-buhari-returns-to-nigeria-after-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/muhammadu-buhari-returns-to-nigeria-after-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Muhammadu Buhari returns to Nigeria after London treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Muhammadu Buhari arrived back in Nigeria on Friday after nearly two months in London receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment.}<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old landed at the airport in the northern city of Kaduna at about 7:40 am local time and was flown by helicopter to the capital, Abuja, according to an AFP photographer and TV pictures.<\/p>\n<p>In Abuja, the head of state, wearing a black kaftan and hat, stepped off the helicopter and walked across the tarmac to be greeted by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo.<\/p>\n<p>A Periscope video on the Twitter account of the presidency&#8217;s digital communications team showed him greeted by security chiefs and other senior government officials.<\/p>\n<p>He was then driven away in a black official car.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari flew to London on January 19, officially on holiday and to have what his office said were &#8220;routine medical check-ups&#8221; for an undisclosed condition.<\/p>\n<p>But while he was away, aides had to counter persistent rumours online that he was seriously ill or even dead, despite photographs showing him meeting senior Nigerian politicians.<\/p>\n<p>Buhari had previously travelled to London in June last year to receive treatment for what was described as a persistent inner ear infection.<\/p>\n<p>The presidency announced his return on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day he looked painfully thin in photographs of his meeting with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18696 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pix-25.jpg\" alt=\"Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari speaking to the press in Paris on September 16, 2015. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Muhammadu Buhari arrived back in Nigeria on Friday after nearly two months in London receiving treatment for an undisclosed ailment.} The 74-year-old landed at the airport in the northern city of Kaduna at about 7:40 am local time and was flown by helicopter to the capital, Abuja, according to an AFP photographer and TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-33122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33122"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=33122"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=33122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}