Lamido Sanusi was never afraid of offending. "I love controversy", the Muslim leader said earlier this year. "If you think there has to be change...you need to step on a few toes." Mr Sanusi lived by that mantra as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, embracing reform and rooting out corruption. He was sacked in February after claiming that some $20 billion of oil revenues had gone missing from government coffers. The powers-that-be were irked when, only four months later, he was made emir of Kano.
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