SaharaReporters reports that Alhaji Hassan Danbaba, grandson of late Premier of the defunct Northern Region, Sir Ahmadu Bello, is dead.

Danbaba passed away on Saturday at the 44 Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna after a brief illness.

The deceased held influential traditional titles including the Magajin Garin Sokoto before his demise.

His body has since been moved to Sokoto for burial Muslim rites.