{"id":10396,"date":"2017-03-10T07:36:56","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T07:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/nigeria-leader-buhari-returns-home-after-uk-medical-leave\/"},"modified":"2017-03-10T07:36:56","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T07:36:56","slug":"nigeria-leader-buhari-returns-home-after-uk-medical-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/nigeria-leader-buhari-returns-home-after-uk-medical-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria leader Buhari returns home after UK medical leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"President Muhammadu Buhari\" src=\"http:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/5423\/production\/_93993512_buhariafa.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  AFP<figcaption>Image caption                                      President Muhammadu Buhari has been undergoing medical tests in the UK                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has returned home after weeks of medical leave in the UK and speculation over his condition.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old landed at an air force base in the northern city of Kaduna and is expected to travel to the capital, Abuja. <\/p>\n<p>The former military ruler left Nigeria on 19 January and has been on medical leave in London.<\/p>\n<p>Details of his condition have not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>An official statement on Thursday said President Buhari had left Nigeria for a &quot;vacation, during which he had medical check-ups&quot;. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The holiday was extended based on doctors&#039; recommendation for further tests and rest.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The main opposition People&#039;s Democratic Party (PDP) has called for more transparency about the president&#039;s condition.<\/p>\n<p>The country is currently suffering from its worst economic crisis in years, following a sharp fall in the price of oil, its major export.<\/p>\n<p><a rel='nofollow' href=http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-39228656 target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright AFPImage caption President Muhammadu Buhari has been undergoing medical tests in the UK Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has returned home after weeks of medical leave in the UK<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}