Nigerias ex-president Muhammadu Buhari dies aged 82

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 stated on Sunday (July 13, 2025).Mr. Buhari died in London on Sunday afternoon, the place he was receiving medical therapy in latest 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 convey his physique house 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 in style 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 tip of his eight-year tenure, that goodwill towards him had pale into discontent. More Nigerians had died because of rising insecurity whereas corruption unfold throughout the federal government