Mohammud Modibbo, believed to be the oldest school pupil in Nigeria, has died at the age of 83.
He started primary school in his mid-seventies, and had recently begun secondary school in Kano.
He was unable to go to school as a child because he worked as a trader, travelling from place to place.
“He was easygoing and very jovial,” Abdulkarim Ibrahim, a teacher at his school, told the BBC Hausa Service.
“During classes, he was very attentive and asked questions when he didn’t understand – either asking the teacher or a student sitting beside him.”
