Buhari concludes Lesser Hajj, returns to Abuja
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After an eight-day official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he also underwent the Umrah (Lesser Hajj), President Muhammadu Buhari landed in Abuja, the capital of the country.
As a result of the ongoing situation in Sudan, which requires that air traffic avoid the country’s entire airspace, Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, who was a member of the presidential entourage, noted that the Presidential aircraft landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport at 5:08 pm on Wednesday, after nearly seven hours for a four to five-hour Jeddah-Abuja flight.
The plane’s new itinerary took it from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, through Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, Cameroon, and finally Nigeria.
The Chief of Staff, Professor Ibrahim Gambari, the Deputy Inspector General of Police, Danmallam Mohammed, who was speaking on behalf of the Inspector General of Police, and the Director General of the Department of State Services, Yusuf Magaji Bichi met the President at the airport upon his safe arrival in Abuja.
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