BREAKING NEWS! Sanusi Lamido Becomes New Emir Of Kano.

Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi (born 31 July 1961) is the current Emir of Kano in Nigeria, he was appointed by the Council Emirates of Kano. He was also Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, appointed on 3 June 2009 and suspended from office by President Goodluck Jonathan on 20 February 2014 after exposing a $20 billion fraud committed by the presidents associates in the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC).^[1] He is a career banker and ranking Fulani nobleman, and also serves as a respected Islamic scholar. The global financial intelliegence magazine, The Banker, published by the Financial Times, has conferred on Sanusi two awards, the global award for central Bank Governor of the Year, as well as for Central Bank Governor of the Year for Africa. The TIME magazine also listed Sanusi in its TIMES 100 list of most influential people of 2011