West Governors Forum has declared Tuesday, July 15, 2025, a public holiday across all states in the region in honour of former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died on Sunday, July 13In a statement signed by the Forum’s chairman and governor of Katsina state,

Nigeria's late former President Muhammadu Buhari, who died in a London clinic on Sunday aged 82, will be buried in his northern home state of Katsina on Tuesday, the state governor said. Buhari, a former military ruler after a coup in the 1980s,

Funeral preparations were underway Monday in the hometown of former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari, as his hometown of Daura readied to bury the one-time military leader and twice-elected democrat.