President Muhammadu Buhari performed the Umrah rituals amid tight security, at the Grand Mosque in Makkah early Thursday. In a terse statement on Thursday by Garba Shehu, Senior special assistant to the president on Media and Publicity, Buhari was received by several officials, including a delegation from the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and Nigerian Embassy staff. A day earlier, President Buhari had also visited and prayed at the Prophet’s Mosque in the second Holy City of Madina. Buhari arrived in the Kingdom on an eight-day official visit on Tuesday.