President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived in Abuja after his

eight-day official visit to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where

he also performed the Umrah (Lesser Hajj).

The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and

Publicity, Garba Shehu, confirmed this in a statement.

Shehu explained that the President arrived after nearly seven

hours for a four to five-hour Jeddah-Abuja flight due to the

ongoing situation in Sudan warranting the avoidance of the

country’s entire airspace by air traffic.