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Muhammadu Sanusi II, CON (Ajami: محمد السنوسي, Muhammadu Sanusi na biyu (Listen ⓘ); born 31 July 1961), [1] known by the religious title Khalifa Sanusi II (Ajami: خليفة السنوسي), is the spiritual leader of the Tijanniyah Sufi order in Nigeria and the emir of the ancient city-state of Kano. [2]
Muhammadu Sanusi II dan ciroma Aminu Sanusi Bayero dan Muhammadu Sanusi I 2014 2020 Sanusi II was the first Sullubawa prince since the 19th century founding of the Dabo dynasty to become emir not through royal primogenitureship. His six-year reign marks also the first to usher in a dynastic generational-shift away from the old regime of 1903 ...
Sanusi was replaced as emir by Aminu Ado Bayero. [9] Emir of Kano in 2024. In May 2024, Muhammadu Sanusi II was reinstalled as Emir of Kano by the local government (now led by Abba Kabir Yusuf). The emirates of Bichi, Karaye, Gaya, and Rano were disbanded, and the original borders of the emirate (pre-2019) were re-established.
Muhammadu Sanusi I, Emir of Kano from 1953 to 1963, grandfather of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (born 1961), Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria 2009-14 and Emir of Kano 2014-20. Joseph Oladele Sanusi (born 1938), Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 1999 to 2004; Anthony Sanusi (1911-2009), Nigerian catholic bishop
On 8 June 2014, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi a grandson of former Emir Muhammadu Sanusi I emerged as the new Emir of Kano. [38] His accession led to widespread protests from supporters of Sanusi Ado Bayero the Chiroman Kano (Crown Prince) and son of the late Emir Ado Bayero, [ 39 ] with allegations that Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso interfered with the king ...
The 14th Emir of Kano, Nigeria, Muhammadu Sanusi II, on his throne before the Durbar, September 2016 Goodwill Zwelithini, Zulu King (1968-2021), at a tribal event in South Africa. In addition to independent African monarchical states, a series of sub-national polities exist as constituencies of a number of the 52 remaining sovereign states of ...
Son of Ali Babba bin Bello House of Bello 10 Abd al-Rahman bin Atiku: c. 1828 Unknown – 1902 Unknown (aged ~74) 25 March 1891 10 October 1902 Son of Abu Bakr I Atiku House of Atiku 11 Muhammadu Attahiru I: Unknown – 1903 Mbormi. 13 October 1902 15 March 1903 Son of Ahmadu Atiku House of Atiku 12 Muhammadu Attahiru II: 21 March 1903 1915 Son ...
The death of the vizier and subsequent capture and exile to Lokoja of Emir Aliyu Babba spelled the formative end of the Kano Emirate. [1] The British made Kano an important administrative centre and kept most of the emirate's institutions in the form of the Kano Emirate Council , subject to the British crown in a newly formed state called ...