{"id":4399,"date":"2025-07-13T17:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/breaking-former-nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari-is-dead\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T17:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T17:28:09","slug":"breaking-former-nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/breaking-former-nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari-is-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari Is Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Freeborn Abraye <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Former Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has passed away at a clinic in London, United Kingdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The news of his death was confirmed on Sunday by his former spokesperson, Garba Shehu, in a post shared on X (formerly Twitter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>More Details To Follow\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Freeborn Abraye Former Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has passed away at a clinic in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[1170],"class_list":["post-4399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-breaking-former-nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari-is-dead"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/img_0854-1.jpg?fit=617%2C562&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4401,"url":"https:\/\/coastaltimes.com.ng\/index.php\/2025\/07\/13\/just-in-president-tinubu-announces-death-of-former-president-muhammadu-buhari\/","url_meta":{"origin":4399,"position":0},"title":"JUST IN: President Tinubu Announces Death Of Former President Muhammadu Buhari","author":"Freeborn Abraye","date":"July 13, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"By Freeborn Abraye STATE HOUSE PRESS RELEASE President Tinubu announces President Buhari's passing, orders VP Shettima to the UK to accompany body back home President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced the passing of his predecessor, President Muhammadu Buhari. 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