Emir Sanusi completes PhD in Islamic Law at University of London

Muhammadu Sanusi II, the 16th Emir of Kano, has completed his doctorate degree in Islamic Law at the University of London, United Kingdom.

A video that has soon gone viral shows the monarch getting emotional after he was told that his thesis was approved without any corrections.

The video showed the monarch being congratulated in a meeting held virtually. The thesis was on: “Codification of Islamic Family Law as an Instrument of Social Reform: A Case Study of the Emirate of Kano and Comparison with the Kingdom of Morocco.”

The former Central Bank of Nigeria governor started the Ph.D. program after he was deposed by the then governor of Kano, Abdullahi Ganduje, in 2020, and he relocated to the UK to focus on it.

However, five months after Sanusi’s dethronement, he was granted a visiting fellowship at the African Studies Centre of the University of Oxford.

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In 2019, the monarch was awarded an honorary doctorate in finance at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.

The former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) had in 1997 earned a second bachelor’s degree in Islamic studies and fiqh at the Africa International University in Khartoum, Sudan.

He earned a degree in Economics in 1981 and is arguably one of the most educated Nigerians who has ever become a monarch in the country.

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