Kaduna State Governor Nasir El-Rufai has approved the appointment of Ahmed Bamalli as the 19th Emir of Zazzau.
Commissioner of Local Government Affairs Ja’afaru Sani made this known in a release on Wednesday.
Bamalli succeeds Shehu Idris who died on September 20 after reigning for 45 years.
Bamalli is the first emir from the Mallawa ruling house in 100 years, following the demise of his grandfather Emir Dan Sidi in 1920.
Until his appointment as emir of Zazzau, Bamalli held the title of Magajin Garin Zazzau and served as Nigeria’s ambassador to Thailand, with concurrent accreditation to Myanmar.
He has been a permanent commissioner in the Kaduna State Independent Electoral Commission since 2015.
He has worked in the banking sector as an executive director and later acting managing director of the Nigerian Security Printing and Minting Corporation.
He was a member of staff of the Abuja Metropolitan Management Agency before a stint as head of human resources at Tad, the mobile communications arm of the defunct Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL).
Born in 1966, Bamalli studied Law at the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.
He holds a master’s degree in International Relations and Diplomacy and a diploma in Organisational Leadership from Oxford University.
He is also a fellow on Conflict Resolution of the University of York, US.
