His spokesman says the visit will last four days and is at his British doctor’s insistence.

Nigerians have been told their president suffers from a persistent ear infection.

That had him visiting  doctors in Britain twice in 2016.

But Muhammadu Buhari has not given details about the medical condition that kept him in British hospitals for seven months last year.

He saw his British doctor when he made a stopover last week on his way home from meeting President Donald Trump in Washington.

His poor health notwithstanding, Buhari says he’ll contest the Presidential election scheduled for February next year to win a second mandate in the driving seat of Africa’s most populous country.

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Katumbi faces arrest if he returns to Kinshasa on charges, which he strongly denies, of recruiting mercenaries.

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Moise Katumbi owns the football team Tout Puissant Mazembe .

He’s hoping that  all powerful label might apply to his aspirations to become president of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Elections are due before the end of the year when President Joseph Kabila reaches his constitutional term limit.

It’s by no means certain Kabila will stand down.

This has given rise to violent demonstrations.

The charges laid against Katumbi after he threw his hat in the ring would indicate Kabila is bent on staying around.

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The military success will be boost to the incumbent Goodluck Jonathan who’s running against former General Muhamadu Buhari.

Nigerian military say they’re mopping up now after retaking the north eastern town of Gwoza where the Islamist militant group Boko Haram is headquartered.

They say many of the jihadis were killed in the operation.

The election was postponed for six weeks so the military could engage Boko Haram.

In that time several towns held by the terrorists have been overrun.

However the insurgents are still holding more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped in Chibok last April and hundreds of young boys they’re planning to turn into child soldiers.

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