President Muhammadu Buhari makes first public appearance after two weeks

  

   President Muhammadu Buhari joined scores of Muslims to observe the Jumat prayers at the Presidential Villa Mosque, Abuja.

   It was his first public appearance in two weeks, and it came amidst concerns about his health.
   He was absent at last week’s Jumat prayers and the last two meetings of the Federal Executive Council.
   Information and Culture Minister Lai Mohammed had told reporters that the President’s absence on those occasions was meant to enable him to rest.
  The First Lady, Aisha, said the President’s ill health was not  as bad as was being speculated.
  Buhari, accompanied by a retinue of aides, walked from his residence yesterday to the mosque at about 1.23 pm.