Nigeria's former President Muhammad Buhari was buried on Tuesday in the backyard of his home in northern Katsina state, as residents climbed trees to bid farewell to the 82-year-old. Buhari ruled Africa's most populous nation between 2015 and 2023 and died in a London hospital on Sunday after an undisclosed illness.

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Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, who led the country twice as a military head of state and a democratic president, has died aged 82, his press secretary said Sunday. Buhari died Sunday in London,

Nigeria's late former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a London clinic on Sunday aged 82, will be buried in his northern home state of Katsina on Tuesday, the state governor said. Buhari, a former military ruler after a coup in the 1980s,

Men of the Armed Forces of Nigeria paid their last respects to former President Muhammadu Buhari in grand style Former President Buhari died at the age of 82 in a London hospital on Sunday, July 13, 2025.

But Nigeria refused to bend to Mr Buhari’s will. Almost 500 politicians and businessmen were arrested for corruption and sent to jail by military tribunals. A new currency was issued to flush out the stashes piled floor to ceiling in the homes of the elite. For many military men this purge was too close for comfort—and too uncompromising.

The former president’s death has cracked open the 2027 race, exposing a fierce contest over who now controls the massive bloc of northern voters that powered him to office and kept him relevant through two terms and three prior defeats.

Prominent groups and institutions are involved in serious intellectual engagements and discourse on the way forward for Nigeria out of its prolonged constitutional quagmire. Eminent jurists and other professionals believe that the existing 1999 Constitution,

The late former President Muhammadu Buhari's son, Yusuf, has thanked President Bola Tinubu and his wife, Oluremi, during a special FEC session held in Abuja on Thursday, July 17Yusuf Buhari also extended his gratitude to Vice President Kashim Shettima and his wife,