A renowned Nigerian Islamic Scholar, Sheikh Ahmad Lemu, is dead. He died on Thursday morning in Minna, according to his daughter, Maryam Lemu.
Late Lemu was born in Lemu, Niger State, on 21st December 1929.
The late scholar received his early education at the Quranic School in 1932, followed by the elementary school (1939), then the intermediate school (currently the Government College) in Lemu, from which he obtained his intermediate school certificate in 1948.
Subsequently,he joined the School of Shari’a Law (currently the School of Arabic Studies) in Lemu from which he obtained Middle (1950) and High (1952) Teachers’ Certificate (Level Two) in Arabic Language, Islamic Studies, Shari’a Jurisdiction and General Education. In 1954, he went to the United Kingdom to study at London University’s School of African and Oriental Studies.
