Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

Emir of Kano

Date of Birth: 31-Jul-1961

Place of Birth: Kano, Kano State, Nigeria

Profession: banker, academic

Nationality: Nigeria

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

  • Muhammadu Sanusi II (CON, born Sanusi Lamido Sanusi 31 July 1961) is the 14th Emir of Kano, who was crowned on 8 June 2014 after the death of his granduncle Ado Bayero (25 July 1930 – 6 June 2014).
  • Emir Sanusi was a banker and former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
  • He was appointed on 3 June 2009 for a five-year term, but was suspended from office by the then President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan on 20 February 2014 after Sanusi accused the government of a $20 billion fraud in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Sanusi is the grandson of Muhammadu Sanusi I, the 11th Fulani Emir of Kano. A banker and Fulani nobleman, he is also a respected Islamic scholar. Sanusi received two awards from The Banker magazine: Central Bank Governor of the Year (worldwide) and Central Bank Governor of the Year for Africa.Time magazine listed him on its list of the 100 most influential people of 2011.
  • In 2013, Sanusi was honoured at the third Global Islamic Finance Awards (GIFA) in Dubai for his advocacy in promoting Islamic banking and finance during his tenure as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
  • He received the Global Leadership in Islamic Finance Award 2015 as the fifth GIFA Laureate, following Tun Abdullah Badawi (2011), Sultan Nazrin Shah (2012), Shaukat Aziz (2013) and Nursultan Nazarbayev (2014). Sanusi was born into the Fulani Torobe (Sullubawa) clan of Kano on 31 July 1961.
  • As the grandson of Muhammadu Sunusi, he was automatically a member of the Sullubawa clan of the Torobe Fulani.
  • His father, Ambassador Aminu Sanusi, was a career diplomat who was the Nigerian Ambassador to Belgium, China and Canada and the Permanent Secretary of the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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