Last updated: 24 february, 2010 - 14:25 GMT

President Yar'Adua returns to Nigeria

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Nigerians are waking up this morning to news that their president has returned home after three months in a hospital in Saudi Arabia.

President Yar'Adua's prolonged absence sparked a political crisis, due to concerns that it had created a power vacuum.

This pressure appears to have eased after parliament voted to hand over power to Vice President Goodluck Jonathan.

The BBC's Ahmed Idriss saw the ailing president's plane touch down in Abuja early this morning.

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