FORMER PRESIDENT BUHARI LAID TO REST IN DAURA

Former President Muhammadu Buhari has been buried on Tuesday evening at his residence in Daura, Katsina State, after funeral prayers and a private interment witnessed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and other high-profile dignitaries.

Crowds filled the streets of Daura, gathering around the late President’s home to pay their last respects. His body had arrived earlier in the afternoon at the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua International Airport in Katsina from London.
President Tinubu led the official delegation which included Vice President Kashim Shettima, Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, Niger Republic’s Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine, former Nigerien President Issoufou Mahamadou, former Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, state governors, and prominent business leaders. They accompanied the late President’s remains on the hour-long drive to Daura.

A brief lying-in-state was held at the residence before the funeral prayer, led by the Imam of Daura Central Mosque, Sheikh Salisu Rabiu.

The final burial rites took place at about 5:50 p.m. with family members and dignitaries in attendance. The ceremony included full military honours, with a reveille and a 21-gun salute.

A week of events in honour of the late President will continue with a condolence visit to his family by the Presidential Committee.

Late President Buhari, who served as Nigeria’s Head of State from 1983 to 1985, returned as a democratically elected president from 2015 to 2023, died in London on Sunday, July 13, 2025, at the age of 82 after an undisclosed illness.