Nigerian President Buhari Returns After Prolonged Sick Leave
- Buhari plans national broadcast Monday morning, goverment says
- Government needs to address graft, ethnic tension: analyst
Muhammadu Buhari,
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Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari returned from more than three months of sick leave in London to a nation agitated by a sluggish economy, re-emerging ethnic tensions and resurgent attacks by Islamist militants in the northeast.
Buhari, who left Nigeria on May 7 for medical tests, arrived in the West African nation’s capital, Abuja, on Saturday, and walked briskly to the airport building. He’s scheduled to address the nation in a broadcast at 7 a.m. local time on Monday, the State House said in an emailed statement.