The Emir of Tsafe in Zamfara, Habibu Aliyu, is dead.
The Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs, Muttaqa Rini, announced the demise of the monarch in a statement in Gusau.
Mr. Rini said the emir, aged 62, died in the early hours of Wednesday at the Usmanu Danfodio University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto after a brief illness.
He said that the deceased left behind four wives, 25 children and 62 grandchildren.
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The commissioner said that his remains would be buried at his palace in Tsafe by 2 p.m. on Wednesday according to Islamic rites.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the late emir had spent 26 years on the throne.
He succeeded his father in 1991.
(NAN)
