Alhaji Mohammed Asha, the Emir of Kaura-Namoda in Zamfara State, is dead. According to reports, he died of complication from COVID-19.

According to the Zamfara Publicity Secretary for the Control and Prevention of COVID-19, Alhaji Mustafa Jafaru Kaura, the late Emir had been in isolation at the Yariman Bakura Specialist Hospital, Gusau for three days.

While at the isolation centre, they had sent his blood sample to Abuja, however, he passed on prior to the arrival of the result.

Mustapha said the corpse of the late Emir was still in the hospital awaiting burial by officials of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).