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.

President Bola Tinubu, on Thursday, renamed the University of Maiduguri after the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, describing him as “a good man, a decent man, an honourable man” whose legacy of discipline,

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.

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.

A 2022 video of Ghanaian prophet Nigel Gaisie prophesying about doom at Nigeria's Presidency has surfaced following the death of Muhammadu Buhari.

The remains of former President Muhammadu Buhari have departed London, United Kingdom, en route to his hometown of Daura in Katsina State ahead of a state burial.