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Glo/CNN’s African Voices features Sultan of Sokoto

Posted by ndy on June 10, 2011 at 2:33pm
Television viewers across the globe will have the opportunity of watching the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Abubakar Sa’ad, on this weekend’s edition of CNN’s African Voices, sponsored by Nigerian telecommunication giants, Globacom.Sultan Abubakar will be the star guest on the programme which runs on Saturdays, from 9.30 to 10.00 a.m. and 3.30 to 4.00 p.m. There are also repeat broadcasts on Sunday from 9 .00 to 10.30 a.m. And 10.30 p.m. to 11.00 a.m. and on Monday from 11.30 to 12.00 p.m. and 6.30 to 7.00 p.m.The Sultan was born on August 24, 1956 in Sokoto and is the 20th Sultan of Sokoto. He is the titular ruler of Sokoto in northern Nigeria, the head of Jama’atu Nasril Islam (Society for the Victory of Islam - JNI) and the president-general of the Nigerian National Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). As Sultan of Sokoto, he is considered the spiritual leader of Nigeria’s millions of Muslims. On November 2, 2006, Sa’adu Abubakar succeeded his brother, Mohammadu Maccido, who died in a plane crash. He is also a younger son of the 17th Sultan, Siddiq Abu Bakar dan Usuman, who held the Sultanate for over fifty years.Sultan Abubakar had a distinguished military career which began in 1975. He was commissioned a second lieutenant two years later. After that, he served in the elite Armoured Corps. He did military training overseas, including in India and Canada. He headed a presidential security unit of the Armoured Corps that guarded then military ruler General Ibrahim Babangida in the late 1980s. Abubakar also commanded a battalion of African peacekeepers in Chad during the early 1980s as part of the Organisation of African Unity’s force and was military liaison officer for the West African regional body ECOWAS in the mid 1990s. In addition to that, he served with West Africa’s peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone and was Nigeria’s military attaché to Pakistan when he was recalled to take office as the 20th Sultan of Sokoto.
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