Nigeria, May 27 -- Kano State has lost another traditional ruler with the death on Wednesday of the Sarkin Ban Bichi, Wada Waziri.

Mr Waziri died at the age of 80 years due to age-related illness.

He was the district head of Dambatta and one of the kingmakers of Bichi Emirate, one of the four emirates created by Governor Abdullahi Ganduje in 2019.

A former civil servant and labour unionist, the deceased led a task force on environmental sanitation popularly known as 'Ruwa-ruwa' during the military government of late Hamza Abdullahi in Kano.

In his condolence message, Governor Ganduje condoled with the Bichi Emirate Council, the deceased's family and people of the state over the death of the monarch.

"May Allah give his families, the ...