Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari dies

July 14, 2025
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LISBON, PORTUGAL - JUNE 30: Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari listens as Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa (not seen) delivers remarks to journalists at the end of their meeting in Belem Presidential Palace at the beginning of his State Visit to the country on June 30, 2022, in Lisbon, Portugal. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari is on a two-day State Visit to Portugal at the invitation of the Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa. (Photo by Horacio Villalobos#Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images)

Nigeria’s former president, Muhammadu Buhari, who led Nigeria twice as a military head of state and a democratic president, has died aged 82, his press secretary said Sunday. Buhari died in London on Sunday afternoon, where he was receiving medical treatment in recent weeks. When he was elected in 2015, on his fourth attempt, he became the first opposition candidate to win a presidential election. He led Africa’s most populous nation until 2023, when he was succeeded by Bola Tinubu, also from the All Progressives Congress.- AP

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