{"id":58891,"date":"2019-04-25T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=50572"},"modified":"2019-04-25T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T10:46:16","slug":"buhari-travels-to-london-for-10-day-private-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/buhari-travels-to-london-for-10-day-private-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari travels to London for 10-day private visit"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to depart for the United Kingdom for a 10-day private visit starting on Thursday, April 25, 2019.<\/p>\n

According to a statement released by the presidency on Thursday, Buhari will depart for the UK after his official visit to Borno State.<\/p>\n

The president will commission developmental projects especially in education, healthcare and roads, before he departs for the UK, possibly London.<\/p>\n

“At the end of the visit to Borno State, President Buhari will be proceeding to the United Kingdom on a private visit,” the presidency announced.<\/p>\n

The president is expected to return to Nigeria on May 5.<\/p>\n

President Buhari has been a frequent visitor to the United Kingdom since he was first inaugurated in 2015. Most of the time, he’s travelled to London to seek medical attention with his foreign doctors.<\/p>\n

In 2017, he spent a combined 154 days in London on two separate medical visits to treat an undisclosed illness, prompting concerns about how fit he is to be president.<\/p>\n

Since then, he’s been to London a few times to check in with his doctors, including another 10-day vacation in the UK capital in August 2018.<\/p>\n

The president’s health issues were a sticking point used against him during his campaign for re-election but the 76-year-old won a second term in the February 23 presidential election.<\/p>\n

He’ll be sworn in for another four-year term on May 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to depart for the United Kingdom for a 10-day private visit starting on Thursday, April 25, 2019. According to a statement released by the presidency on Thursday, Buhari will depart for the UK after his official visit to Borno State. The president will commission developmental projects especially in education, healthcare […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[278,1021],"class_list":["post-58891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-london","tag-muhammadu-buhari","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58891\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}