{"id":10168,"date":"2019-05-15T15:12:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=10168"},"modified":"2019-05-15T15:12:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T15:12:49","slug":"buhari-off-to-saudi-arabia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-off-to-saudi-arabia","title":{"rendered":"Buhari off to Saudi Arabia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari is set to travel to Saudi Arabia Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said Mr Buhari is travelling at the request of the Saudi king to perform an Islamic function called Umrah.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the invitation of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, the ruler of Saudi Arabia and Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to perform the Umrah (lesser pilgrimage) in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this effect, the President, accompanied by close personal aides, will embark on the journey on Thursday, 16th May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is expected back in the country on Tuesday, 21st May.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUmrah is an optional but recommended pilgrimage to Makkah that can be made at any time of the year,\u201d Me Shehu said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Buhari recently returned to Nigeria after about ten days of a \u2018private\u2019 visit to the UK. The purpose of the visit was not disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari is set to travel to Saudi Arabia Thursday. A statement by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, said Mr Buhari is travelling at the request of the Saudi king to perform an Islamic function called Umrah. \u201cPresident Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the invitation of King Salman Bin Abdulaziz, the ruler of Saudi Arabia and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":9032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,353,235,570],"class_list":["post-10168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-islam","tag-president","tag-saudi-arabia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Buhari off to Saudi Arabia - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-off-to-saudi-arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari off to Saudi Arabia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari is set to travel to Saudi Arabia Thursday. 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