{"id":30840,"date":"2020-10-07T18:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=30840"},"modified":"2020-10-07T18:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T18:51:21","slug":"gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau","title":{"rendered":"Gov El-Rufai appoints new Emir of Zazzau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p>Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has named the new Emir of Zazzau.<\/p>\n<p>El-Rufai, who spent hours in a meeting with Zazzau council of chiefs on Tuesday, chose Ambassador Ahmed Bamalli as the 19th Fulani emir for the emirate.<\/p>\n<p>The seat was left vacant after the death of Alhaji Shehu Idris, the 18th Fulani Emir.<\/p>\n<p>Idris died on Sunday, 20th September 2020, at the age of 84.<\/p>\n<p>It is confirmed that the late Emir had some health challenges and was taken to the hospital where he died.<\/p>\n<p>A document circulating on social media confirmed the appointment, stating that an announcement will be made on the coronation of the new Emir.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has named the new Emir of Zazzau. El-Rufai, who spent hours in a meeting with Zazzau council of chiefs on Tuesday, chose Ambassador Ahmed Bamalli as the 19th Fulani emir for the emirate. The seat was left vacant after the death of Alhaji Shehu Idris, the 18th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":30842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-30840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-el-rufai"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov El-Rufai appoints new Emir of Zazzau - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has named the new Emir of Zazzau.El-Rufai, who spent hours\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov El-Rufai appoints new Emir of Zazzau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:Governor Nasir El-Rufai of Kaduna State has named the new Emir of Zazzau.El-Rufai, who spent hours\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-07T18:51:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/El-Rufai.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Gov El-Rufai appoints new Emir of Zazzau\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-07T18:51:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau\"},\"wordCount\":118,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/El-Rufai.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"El-Rufai\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/gov-el-rufai-appoints-new-emir-of-zazzau\",\"name\":\"Gov El-Rufai appoints new Emir of Zazzau - 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