{"id":15530,"date":"2025-07-13T17:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=15530"},"modified":"2025-07-13T17:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:00:05","slug":"president-tinubu-announces-president-buharis-passing-orders-vp-shettima-to-the-uk-to-accompany-body-back-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/president-tinubu-announces-president-buharis-passing-orders-vp-shettima-to-the-uk-to-accompany-body-back-home\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu announces President Buhari&#8217;s passing, orders VP Shettima to the UK to accompany body back home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the passing of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari.<\/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&#8217;s widow and offered his deep condolences.<\/p>\n<p>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>Former President Buhari was twice elected Nigeria&#8217;s President in 2015 and 2023.<\/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<p>Bayo Onanuga<\/p>\n<p>Special Adviser to the President,<\/p>\n<p>(Information and Strategy)<\/p>\n<p>June 13, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the passing of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari. President Buhari died today in London<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15531,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15532,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15530\/revisions\/15532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}