{"id":7562,"date":"2019-04-01T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=7562"},"modified":"2019-04-01T16:30:31","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T16:30:31","slug":"buhari-leaves-for-senegal-to-attend-macky-salls-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-leaves-for-senegal-to-attend-macky-salls-inauguration","title":{"rendered":"Buhari leaves for Senegal, to attend Macky Sall\u2019s inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday left Nigeria for Dakar, the Senegalese capital.<\/p>\n<p>He travelled to attend the inauguration of the country\u2019s President, Macky Sall.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Buhari\u2019s spokesman, Femi Adesina, which made the travel public read in part, \u201cOn the invitation of his host, President Buhari, who is ECOWAS chairman, will be Special Guest of Honour at the ceremonies to be attended by other African leaders at the Diamniadio Exhibition Centre on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nigerian leader will be accompanied by Governors Mohammed Abubakar, Nasir El -Rufai and Tanko Al -Makura of Bauchi , Kaduna and Nasarawa States respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOthers on the Presidential entourage include the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Geoffrey Onyeama; National Security Adviser, Maj-Gen Babagana Monguno ( rtd); Director-General, National Intelligence Agency, Ambassador Ahmed Rufai, and other top government officials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President is expected back in the country at the end of the inauguration ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday left Nigeria for Dakar, the Senegalese capital. 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A statement by Buhari\u2019s spokesman, Femi Adesina, which made the travel public read in part, \u201cOn the invitation of his host, President Buhari, who is ECOWAS chairman, will be Special Guest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":6394,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[97,544,204,235],"class_list":["post-7562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-ceremony","tag-government","tag-president"],"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 leaves for Senegal, to attend Macky Sall\u2019s inauguration - 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-leaves-for-senegal-to-attend-macky-salls-inauguration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari leaves for Senegal, to attend Macky Sall\u2019s inauguration\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday left Nigeria for Dakar, the Senegalese capital. 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