Nigeria, May 24 -- Former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Lamido Sanusi, is in Kano and set to receive his letter of reinstatement as the Emir of Kano at the Government House in the city.

PREMIUM TIMES observed Governor Abba Yusuf and his officials at the Government House preparing to receive Mr Sanusi for the presentation of his letter of reappointment as the sole first-class Emir of the state.

The preparation came despite the Federal High Court in Kano on Thursday restraining the governor and the state government from implementing the new emirate law under which Mr Sanusi was reinstated.

The law, passed on Thursday by the state House of Assembly and assented to immediately by Governor Yusuf, dissolved the four emirates...