The Emir of Rano, Dr Tafida Abubakar Ila II, is dead. He died on Saturday at Nassarwa Specialist Hospital at about 4:45pm after a brief illness. H e was 78.
We earlier today reported his being rushed to the hospital while he was having breathing problems. He was rejected at AKUTH because they had no oxygen.
His Rano emirate is one of four new emirates created in Kano in the wake of the balkanisation of the Kano emirate.
He was reported to have been hospitalised on Friday though details of his ailment were uncertain. Confirming the death to Daily Trust, Turakin Rano, Kabiru Alhassan Rurum, said the late emir was admitted at the hospital on Friday. Rurum, who is a former speaker of the Kano State House of Assembly, said the emir would be buried on Saturday, according to Islamic injunctions.
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