Buhari returns to Nigeria after UK trip

President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to the country from his trip in the United Kingdom.

Mr Buhari who had left the country last month for an educational submit and subsequently embark on a medical check-up thereafter returned on Friday evening.

During the event, he joined world leaders in pledging to increase funding for the education sector at the recent Global Education Summit in London, United Kingdom.

When he left the country on July 26, members of the National Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) began a strike over repeated failure of his administration to implement agreements signed with them.

Before departing London, Mr Buhari was reported to have on Thursday visited Bola Tinubu, former Lagos State governor and National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) who is also in London attending to his health.

At the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja to welcome the president included his Chief of Staff, Ibrahim Gambari; Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Muhammad Bello, security chiefs as well as some presidential aides.