President Muhammadu Buhari has continued work today at around 11:20am.
The president did not go to his office, but rather worked from his official habitation.
A Presidency official disclosed to State House columnists this was on account of the president's office was being remodeled.
The official, who argued secrecy, said the president would move to his office when the redesign is finished.
He additionally expressed that the president, from his habitation toward the beginning of today, marked a letter advising the National Assembly administration of his arrival from his therapeutic excursion in London.
Addressing State House reporters later, presidential representative, Mr Femi Adesina, affirmed that the president had continued work and transmitted a letter to the National Assembly.
Later in an announcement, Adesina said Buhari, in accordance with sacred arrangement, had composed the National Assembly, advising the lawmaking body of his arrival to office, in the wake of coming back from therapeutic excursion in London.
He expressed: "President Buhari had come back to the nation on Saturday, August 19, 2017, and in a letter dated August 21, 2017, he told the Senate and also the House of Representatives, that he was continuing office.
"The letter expressed to a limited extent: "In consistence with Section 145 of the 1999 Constitution (as revised), I write to imply that I have continued my capacities as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with impact from Monday, 21st August, 2017, after my restorative follow-up in the United Kingdom."
President Buhari had left for London on May 7, 2017, and gave control of government to the Vice President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, who worked as the Acting President.
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