BREAKING: Well-liked Zaria Islamic Cleric Rigi-Rigi is Lifeless [PHOTO]

Famend Zaria Islamic scholar, Sheikh Khalifa Usman Idris, popularly often called Rigi-Rigi, has handed away.

The cleric’s loss of life was confirmed on Monday morning by his son-in-law, Malama Abubakar Ɗanyaro.

Ɗanyaro mentioned the scholar died on Sunday night time at a personal hospital in Kaduna.

The funeral prayer is scheduled to happen on Monday after Asr prayer at Rigi-Rigi’s residence within the Kusfa space of Zaria, he added.

Earlier than being transferred to the personal hospital in Barnawa, Kaduna, the cleric had been receiving remedy on the 44 Nigerian Military Reference Hospital in Kaduna.

Rigi-Rigi was broadly identified for his humorous preaching type, with movies of his sermons circulating extensively and gaining reputation on social media.