Former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor and Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi has bagged a PhD from a London University.
Emir Sanusi started the PhD programme after he was dethroned as Emir by the former Kano Governor, Abdulahi Ganduje in 2020.
The panel of assessors on Tuesday informed the Emir of the approval of his thesis without much correction.
According to the Financial Times of London, Sanusi’s 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 monarch started the PhD programme in 2020, shortly after his ouster from the throne by then-Governor of Kano State, Abdullahi Ganduje.
He relocated to the United Kingdom to fully focus on the programme.
Barely five months after his dethronment, Sanusi was granted a visiting fellowship at the African Studies Centre of the University of Oxford.
Sanusi was awarded an honorary doctorate in finance at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London in 2019.
He earned his first degree in Economics in 1981, followed by a second bachelor’s degree in Islamic studies from the Africa International University in Khartoum, Sudan in 1997.
