{"id":169432,"date":"2025-07-14T15:19:03","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T14:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari"},"modified":"2025-07-14T16:19:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T15:19:42","slug":"national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari","title":{"rendered":"National Assembly Reschedules Plenary to Honor Buhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Following the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in a London hospital, the National Assembly, has rescheduled the plenary sessions of both chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives to Tuesday, July 22, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Kamoru Ogunlana, who announced this in a statement signed and released on Monday, said the action was meant to honour the deceased for his legacy and services to the country.<\/p>\n<p>The federal legislature had last Thursday, July 10 adjourned plenary sessions to Tuesday, July 15 before the sudden death of Buhari on Sunday at the age of 82 years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn honour of his legacy and service to the nation, I am directed by the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to inform all members of the National Assembly and the general public that all legislative activities in the National Assembly are hereby suspended immediately until Tuesday, 22 July, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll members of the National Assembly are urged to reschedule their engagements to enable full participation in the burial activities of the late President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe leadership of both chambers, on behalf of members and staff of the National Assembly extend heartfelt condolences to the government and people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; the government and people of Katsina State; his wife, children and the entire Buhari family,\u201d the CNA stated.<\/p>\n<p>Ogunlana pointed out that the late former President Buhari would be remembered for his commitment to Nigeria\u2019s unity and his integrity.<\/p>\n<p>He prayed the Almighty Allah to grant the soul of the deceased eternal rest in Aljannatul Firdaus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Following the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in a London hospital, the National Assembly, has rescheduled the plenary sessions of both chambers, the Senate and the House of Representatives to Tuesday, July 22, 2025. Clerk to the National Assembly, CNA, Kamoru Ogunlana, who announced this in a statement signed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":169431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,2660],"tags":[97,670,254],"class_list":["post-169432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-buhari","tag-national-assembly","tag-nigeria"],"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>National Assembly Reschedules Plenary to Honor Buhari - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Following the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in a London hospital, the National Assembly, has resc ...\" \/>\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\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"National Assembly Reschedules Plenary to Honor Buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Following the death of former President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in a London hospital, the National Assembly, has resc ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-14T14:19:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-14T15:19:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752493903.447455.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"675\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"National Assembly Reschedules Plenary to Honor Buhari\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-14T14:19:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-14T15:19:42+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari\"},\"wordCount\":280,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/07\/sm_1752493903.447455.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Buhari\",\"National Assembly\",\"Nigeria\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/national-assembly-reschedules-plenary-to-honor-buhari\",\"name\":\"National Assembly Reschedules Plenary to Honor Buhari - 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