{"id":27009,"date":"2022-11-01T06:35:44","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T06:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=27009"},"modified":"2022-11-01T06:35:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T06:35:47","slug":"buhari-travels-to-uk-for-medical-check-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/01\/buhari-travels-to-uk-for-medical-check-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Buhari travels to UK for medical check-up\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has left for the UK for a routine medical check-up, his special adviser said on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is due to return to Nigeria in the second week of this month, Femi Adesina said in a statement on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Buhari, 79, has regularly sought treatment abroad since he assumed the presidency in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has often been criticised for seeking treatment outside the country while Nigeria\u2019s healthcare system suffers from mismanagement and under-funding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His time as president for two consecutive terms comes to an end in February when the country holds a general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has left for the UK for a routine medical check-up, his special adviser said on Monday. He is due to return to Nigeria in the second week of this month, Femi Adesina said in a statement on Twitter. Mr Buhari, 79, has regularly sought treatment abroad since he assumed the presidency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[3820,911,9127,8407,434,5549,4844,7574,3805,1396,8206,5350,12605,3080],"class_list":["post-27009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-buhari","tag-election","tag-february","tag-medical-check-up","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian","tag-nigerian-president-muhammadu-buhari","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-president-muhammadu-buhari","tag-treatment","tag-twitter","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}