Buhari pays tribute to Gorbachev, says “he was a courageous reformer” President Muhammadu Buhari has described the last leader of the former Soviet Union, Mr Mikhail Gorbachev, as “a courageous reformer who will be remembered for years to come because of his immeasurable contributions to world peace and openness in his own once rigidly closed society.” Reacting to the death of Gorbachev at 91 on Tuesday, President Buhari said: “The late Gorbachev was a remarkable gentleman whose reformist agenda had fundamentally changed the Soviet society through his policy of Perestroika and...