Large Turnout At The Burial Of The Late Emir Of Kano.

Ado Abdullahi Bayero, the Emir of Kano passed on to the great beyond his morning at the age of 83, he was the longest serving emir till date. As per muslim custom, he was buried the same day.

There was a large turn out to pay last respects to the Emir, including prominent Nigerians which included ex-vice president Atiku Abubakar, present vice president Namadi Sambo and host of others.

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Born on June 15, 1930, in Gidan Rumfa, Bayero was coronated in 1963 as the 13th Emir of Kano.


He studied the Qur’an and later attended the Kano Middle School, and School for Arabic Studies, Kano.

He started his working career in 1947 at the then British Bank for West Africa, now First Bank of Nigeria Plc.

In 1949, Bayero join the services of the Kano Native Authority (NA), and attended courses at the Clerical Training Centre, Zaria; and the United Kingdom, and rose to the rank of Chief Clerk at the Kano Town Council.

He later joined partisan politics and contested and won election into the Northern Regional House of Assembly in 1954 on the platform of the defunct Northern People’s Congress (NPC).

In 1957, he resigned his membership of the House and took up the appointment of Wakilin Doka, Chief of Kano Native Authority Police.

He was appointed Nigeria’s Ambassador to Senegal five years later, and became the Emir of Kano in 1963 while studying French in Switzerland.

Bayero was the Chancellor of various Nigerian universities, including the University of Nigeria, Nsukka; the University of Ibadan, and University of Maiduguri.

He was the longest serving Emir of Kano, and spearheaded the construction of many mosques and Islamic schools in the emirate.