After 26 years on the throne, 62-year-old
Emir of Tsafe in Zamfara state, Alhaji Habibu
Aliyu, who died on Wednesday has been
buried.
The Commissioner for Local Government and
Chieftaincy Affairs, Alhaji Muttaqa Rini,
announced the demise of the monarch in a
statement in Gusau.
Rini said the emir died in the early hours of
Wednesday at the Usmanu Danfodio
University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto in a
brief illness.
He said that the deceased left behind four
wives, 25 children and 62 grandchildren.
The commissioner had also said that the
remains would be buried at his palace in
Tsafe by 2 p.m on Wednesday according to
Islamic rites.
He succeeded his father in 1991.
