President Muhammadu Buhari will on Monday, October 31, depart Abuja for London, the United Kingdom for a routine medical check-up.

This comes shortly after he presided over an emergency meeting with security chiefs at the State House, Abuja.

According to a tweet by the President’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, President Buhari is expected back in the country in the second week of November.

The trip will be one of several medical trips the President has embarked on since assuming office in 2015; spending at least 212 days abroad.

On February 5, 2016, eight months after being sworn in, the President took his first medical trip to London, the United Kingdom, spending six days between February 5 and 10.

Buhari’s second medical trip would follow four months later on June 6, 2016.

He spent 10 days treating an ear infection after which he rested for three extra days before returning on June 19, 2016.