Former President, Muhammadu Buhari has been confirmed dead.

The confirmation was posted by his former aide, Bashir Ahmad, and his spokesperson, Garba Shehu.

Garba Shehu short statement reads:

“The family of the former president has announced the passing on of the former president, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, this afternoon in a clinic in London.
May Allah accept him in Aljannatul Firdaus, Amin.”

Abia State chapter of the Obidient Movement has announced that its members would stage a ‘One Million Man March’ in major towns of Abia State for Peter Obi, the 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Party.

The group in a state issued in Umuahia on Sunday, said the march will hold simultaneously in four major Abia towns – Umuahia, Aba, Ohafia and Uzuakoli – on July 19.

According to a statement by one of the Coordinators of the Obident Movement in the state, Chibuzor Obiesili and Head, Media & Publicity Sub-committee, Mr Christian Emmanuel, the procession would be held to mark Obi’s birthday, which comes up on July 19.

While backing Obi for adopting the African Democratic Congress, ADC, to pursue his presidential ambition in 2027, the Obidient Movement described the ADC as an “Organic Coalition Movement”.

“Obi believes that to dismantle the structures that keep our people in poverty and insecurity, we must build bridges and not walls even when those bridges are difficult,” the group said.

The Obidient Movement said apart from the One Million Man march for the former Anambra governor, its members would also visit inmates in prisons, hospital patients and other vulnerable persons across Abia State.

The African Democratic Congress, ADC, on Sunday challenged President Bola Tinubu to explain to Nigerians where he traveled to after the end of the BRICS summit in Brazil.

On June 28, 2025, Tinubu departed Nigeria on a two-nation visit to St. Lucia and Brazil.

From St. Lucia, Tinubu reportedly headed for the 17th BRICS summit in Rio de Janiero in Brazil.

A statement by the Nigerian Presidency said the BRICS summit in Brazil held between July 6 and 7th.

After the summit ended, Tinubu’s whereabouts was unknown until the early hours of Sunday when he returned to Nigeria.

The Presidency failed to issue any explanation to Nigerians on Tinubu whereabouts for six days.

Reacting to the development on Sunday, ADC, in a statement by its spokesman, Bolaji Abdullahi, challenged Tinubu to tell Nigerians where he was during the six days period.

Abdullahi said the ADC extended a weary welcome to Tinubu for finally returning to the country five days after the end of the 2025 BRICS Summit which was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The statement said, “Since the summit ended on Monday, July 7th, all the other world leaders who were in attendance returned home, briefed their citizens, and got back to work. But our President?

“He only reappeared in Abuja in the early hours of Sunday, July 13—without a word, without a briefing, or any explanation as to why his return to the country had been delayed.

“A whole five days is significant in the life of a country, especially a country like ours battling with several existential challenges of insecurity and a tottering economy that has made life increasingly difficult for the majority of Nigerians.”

The party stressed that since Tinubu was not on holidays during his trip, he owes Nigerians a duty to explain his whereabouts for those days.