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sweetgala:
Chai.. I'll estimate current value at over 5 million dollars given a 250gto Ferrari sold for 25 million at auction recently

sweetgala:
That car has been in the ownership of the emirate for over a decade possibly 3 decades now from the history I have been able to gather.

Would probably buy 2 new. RR phantoms

The instruction was to do anything that was required, irrespective of cost, and we ultimately rebuilt pretty well everything, starting with a new ash frame for the alloy body. Along the way we created replacement Perspex covers for the unique front lights, and persuaded the speedometer in the rear compartment back into life, where we also fitted a genuine Rolls-Royce badge bar to serve as a handrail for the emir when he needed to stand and acknowledge his people.

mmsen:
Price is no indicator of quality or function.

Retailers can afford to sell overpriced goods because there will always be fools like Sanusi who will overpay for them.

naptu2:
Nubar Gulbenkian's Rolls Royce Silver Wraith (It was used by the Queen when she visited Nigeria in 1956).



More pictures. https://www.nairaland.com/2560289/muhammadu-sanusi-ii-abuja-today


Nubar Gulbenkian was an eccentric Armenian-British millionaire who was crazy about Rolls Royces. He had many custom made Rolls Royces (the Rolls Royce company was not always happy with the designs that he chose for his cars). This particular car was designed by Gulbenkian in 1952. It's a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith, but its lights are different from any other Silver Wraith.

The Emir of Kano, Abdullahi Bayero (Emir from 1926-1953) bought the car shortly afterwards. Bayero died and the car was inherited by his successor, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi I. The car was used to convey Queen Elizabeth II when she toured Northern Nigeria in 1956 (Kano, Jos, Kaduna, etc).

The car was also inherited by the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero and it has now been inherited by the current Emir, Muhammad Sanusi II.

Picture - Queen Elizabeth in the car in 1956.

https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/10632755_1478989435691692_7493044243735052885_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=5a30884daad55be04db6f379d1d566b0&oe=58C91CF3

naptu2:
It's a Silver Wraith, but it was designed by Gubenkian and its headlights make it the only one of its kind in the world. It's been in the Kano Royal Family since 1952. It was restored in 2009.


Queen Elizabeth in the car in 1956
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Emir Sanusi in the car in 2015.

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skywalker240:
thats 1932 phantom

naptu2:
The Kano Royal Family has bought quite a lot of Rolls Royces in the past 60 years and the Emir has a fleet of Rolls Royces which are handed down from one generation to the other.

Alhaji Ado Bayero was in this blue Rolls Royce when he was attacked by Boko Haram in 2012.


[img]http://1.bp..com/-4WcQbIFsc98/UPqseG-_kMI/AAAAAAAAX9E/NNvWdxnVu0g/s1600/Emir.jpg[/img]


The Rolls Royce in the picture below is over 53 years old and has been in the Royal Household for decades.

https://www.theparadigmng.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sanusi-car-rolls-royce-620x330.jpg

naptu2:
Nubar Gulbenkian's Rolls Royce Silver Wraith (It was used by the Queen when she visited Nigeria in 1956).



More pictures. https://www.nairaland.com/2560289/muhammadu-sanusi-ii-abuja-today


Nubar Gulbenkian was an eccentric Armenian-British millionaire who was crazy about Rolls Royces. He had many custom made Rolls Royces (the Rolls Royce company was not always happy with the designs that he chose for his cars). This particular car was designed by Gulbenkian in 1952. It's a Rolls Royce Silver Wraith, but its lights are different from any other Silver Wraith.

The Emir of Kano, Abdullahi Bayero (Emir from 1926-1953) bought the car shortly afterwards. Bayero died and the car was inherited by his successor, Alhaji Mohammed Sanusi I. The car was used to convey Queen Elizabeth II when she toured Northern Nigeria in 1956 (Kano, Jos, Kaduna, etc).

The car was also inherited by the late Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero and it has now been inherited by the current Emir, Muhammad Sanusi II.

Picture - Queen Elizabeth in the car in 1956.

https://scontent-amt2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/fr/cp0/e15/q65/10632755_1478989435691692_7493044243735052885_n.jpg?efg=eyJpIjoiYiJ9&oh=5a30884daad55be04db6f379d1d566b0&oe=58C91CF3

VomeSchakleton:
The car was given to sarki ado bayero by the queen of england small fry. It wasnt a waste. Its a beautiful vintage car with sentimental value, i dont expect you to understand.

emeka2847:
Simple. The selfless ones of those time were replaced by them. Unfortunately they're all selfish and ungrateful bastards!

They must all go if we have to move forward.

Ayanko:
pls where is Ondo State representative.

naptu2:
Meanwhile, Abia and Ondo states are meant to have representatives on the board, but people from the two states have rejected President Buhari's nominees because they are not from oil producing communities.

https://www.nairaland.com/3247035/abaribe-rejects-donatus-eyinnah-nddc

repogirl:
nap.tu just posted the guidelines on the NDDC act where there should be three reps from non oil producing states but I still wonder why all three members had to come from the north...... why noone from Osun/Kwara/kogi or any other southwestern state? All three from North.

Funny.

(c) three persons to represent non-Oil mineral producing States [b]provided that such membership should be drawn from the
remaining geo-political zones which are not represented in the Commission

[size=14pt]NDDC Act[/size]


2.- (1) There is hereby established for the Commission a governing Board ( in this Act referred to as (“the Board”), which shall consist of:


(a) a Chairman;

(b) one person who shall be an indigene of an oil producing area to represent each of the following member States, that is,

(i)Abia
(ii) Akwa-Ibom State;
(iii) Bayelsa State;
(iv) Cross River State;
(v) Delta State;
(vi) Edo State;
(vii) Imo State;
(viii) Ondo State; and
(ix) Rivers State;

(c) three persons to represent non-Oil mineral producing States provided that such membership should be drawn from the
remaining geo-political zones which are not represented in the Commission;

(d) One representative of Oil producing companies in the Niger-Delta nominated by the Oil producing companies;

(e) one person to represent the Federal Ministry of Finance;

(f)one person to represent Federal Ministry of Environment;

(g) the Managing Director of the Commission; and

(h) two executive Directors;