NewsNigeriaPoliticsGovernor Yusuf Sacks Emir Of Kano, Reappoints Sanusi II

Following repealing the 2019 Emirate Councils Law that altered the state’s over 1000-year history and signing the Kano Emirates Bill 2024 into law,Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf has approved the reappointment of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II as Emir of Kano under the new laws.

The Governor while signing the law that was attended by the Speaker of the State Assembly, Ismaila Falgore, Deputy Governor Aminu Abdussalam, Secretary to the State Government Abdullahi Baffa Bichi among others gave former emirs 48 hours to vacate their palaces and hand over Emirate Council properties to the Commissioner of Local Government, who also serves as State Deputy Governor.

By signing the bill, the governor declared that the 2019 law has been repealed and is now history.

The State Assembly has fulfilled one of its constitutional roles by signing the bill into law.

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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