Sheik Ahmad Bamba, Kano-based Islamic Scholar, is dead

Kano-based Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim Bamba, popularly known as Dr Ahmad BUK, is dead.

The late scholar died at Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital Friday morning after a brief illness.

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Ahmad Muhammad Ahmad, one of the scholar’s sons, announced the cleric’s death on Facebook, on Friday.

The deceased was a lecturer at the department of Arabic language in Bayero University Kano before he resigned to focus fully on his Islamic propagation school called Darul Hadith at Tudun Yola in Kano metropolis.

Funeral prayer would hold at Darul Hadith Mosque, Tudun Yola, Kano metropolis, by 1.30pm.

The Sheik’s death comes four days after that of Alhaji Bashir Tofa, also a prominent Kano indigene.