[2] Upon the establishment of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna State, Ahmadu Bello College was renamed to Abdullahi Bayero College, after Abdullahi Bayero, Emir of Kano[3] and soon thereafter it became a faculty, admitting its first set of ten undergraduate students for a B.A.

[4] Initially located on the grounds of the School of Arabic Studies near the palace of the Emir, the college moved to a location at the old Kano Airport Hotel, where it remained until March 1968, when it moved to Western Kano to make way for a military hospital (the Nigerian Civil War having started the previous year).

The university also houses the International Institute of Islamic Banking and Finance (IIIBF), the only one of its kind in the country.

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