Deposed Kano Emir, Muhammadu Sanusi II gets new job

Authority of Oxford University in the United Kingdom has given the deposed Emir of Kano,Muhammadu Sanusi II approval to start a fellowship programme at the the institution.

ROYAL NEWS gathered that the ex-banker is scheduled to resume later in October 2020.

The Management Committee of the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford, recently approved Sanusi’s request for a Visiting Fellowship (Academic Visitor) at the Centre for the 2020-2021 academic year.

Oxford University’s African Studies Centre is one of the world’s leading Centres of African Studies.

The Centre notes that Sanusi who is also a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), intends to use the period of his affiliation to write a book around the theme: ‘Central Bank Response to Global Financial Crisis: A Case Study of the Central Bank of Nigeria 2009-2013.’

This will be based on his experience as the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria and as a banker and public intellectual.