A statement issued in Abuja by Programme Coordinator of the General Ibrahim Attahiru Foundation (GIAF), Dr Titus Orngu, said other dignitaries expected at the event, where the Foundation will be formally launched, include: top serving and retired military officers, captains of industry, members of the diplomatic corps, political leaders, members of the academia and associates of the late General.
Browsing: Kano Emirate
This is in order to resolve the lingering conflict between the two Kano State prominent indigenes Aliko Dangote and Abdussamad Isyaka-Rabi’u over the establishment of a sugar plant by BUA.
The Arewa Consultative Forum has called for calm and understanding over the removal of the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II.
It would be recalled that the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, led a team of eminent Nigerians, including renowned industrialist, Aliko Dangote, to reconcile the feuding power brokers last week
The restoration of Gaya, Rano and Karaye emirates in Kano State was not meant to despise Kano Emirate or any personality as perceived by some narrow-minded elements in the society.
Kingmakers in Kano have dragged the Kano State Governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, to court over his decision to create four new Emirates out of Kano Emirate and engaged seven Senior Advocates of Nigeria and 17 other lawyers.
Ganduje said this on Friday in reaction to the creation of four new Emirates from the Kano Emirate supervised by Sanusi, which was regarded as a way of whittling the influence of the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria
The president’s condolence message is contained in a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Friday.