Nigeria’s former President, Muhammadu Buhari, who led Nigeria twice as a army head of state and a democratic president, has died aged 82, his press secretary mentioned on Sunday (July 13, 2025).
Mr. Buhari died in London on Sunday afternoon, the place he was receiving medical remedy in current weeks. When he was elected in 2015, on his fourth try, he turned the primary opposition candidate to win a presidential election.
He led Africa’s most populous nation till 2023, when he was succeeded by Bola Tinubu, additionally from the All Progressives Congress.
Buhari’s presidency was affected by extremist killings, a plunging financial system, and burgeoning corruption. He confronted related circumstances when he first took energy in 1983, after a army coup.
Tinubu dispatched the vice chairman to deliver his physique residence from London and ordered flags to be flown at half-staff because the nation enters a mourning interval.
Coming from Nigeria’s largely Muslim north, the lanky, austere Buhari rode on a wave of goodwill off the again of common anger with the federal government to be elected president in 2015. He had vowed to finish the killings and clear up rampant corruption in one of many continent’s largest economies and oil producers.
However, by the top of his eight-year tenure, that goodwill towards him had light into discontent. More Nigerians had died on account of rising insecurity whereas corruption unfold throughout the federal government
