Turkey: Buhari returns to Nigeria after D-8 summit
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday returned to Abuja after a successful four-day working visit to Ankara and Istanbul in Turkey.
The President left the Istanbul International Airport at 09:56am and landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja at 4.05p.m.
While in Turkey, President Buhari held some high-level talks with heads of states of some member countries of the D-8.
Speaking during the ninth summit, Buhari said the private sector and business communities in the economic organisation must be assisted with incentives to widen economic cooperation among member-states.
Buhari, accompanied by his wife, Aisha, was received at the airport by senior government officials, including his Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, Inspector-General of Police, Idris Ibrahim, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Alhaji Mohammad Bello and other presidential aides.
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