Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari is recovering from an undisclosed ailment and there is no cause for concern about his health, the presidency said.
“As eager as he is to be up and about, the president’s doctors have advised on his taking things slowly, as he fully recovers from the long period of treatment in the United Kingdom some weeks ago,” presidency spokesman Garba Shehu said Thursday in an emailed statement.
“There is no need for apprehension over the health of our president,” who works mostly from his home where he has has a fully equipped office, Shehu said.
Buhari’s government is currently working on approving a 7.3 trillion-naira ($23.6 billion) spending plan to help revive an economy that shrank last year for the first time since 1991, amid plummeting oil revenue and shortages of foreign currency. Nigeria’s is Africa’s biggest oil producer.
SOURCE: Bloomberg
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