Emir of Ningi, Bauchi State, HRH Yunusa Danyaya has died at the age of 88.
Secretary to Ningi Emirate Council, Alhaji Usman Sule, in a statement yesterday confirmed the death, saying Danyaya passed away in the morning after a protracted illness at a hospital in Kano.
Sule said the Emir died two days after returning from a medical trip to Mecca on August 22.
Funeral prayer of the deceased was held yesterday at the Emir’s palace in Ningi at 4:00 pm.
It would be recalled that Danyaya was installed in 1978 as a first-class traditional ruler in Bauchi State.
His reign witnessed rapid transformation of social and economic development of the Emirate Council.
Born in Ningi in 1936, the late Emir attended Ningi Elementary School between 1941 and 1946, and Bauchi Middle School between 1946 and 1951.
He was at the School of Hygiene, Kano in 1951, and attended Ahmadu Bello University Zaria for a one year course in Public Administration between 1956 and 1957.
