{"id":240869,"date":"2026-02-02T09:22:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/breaking-popular-zaria-islamic-cleric-rigi-rigi-is-dead-photo\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T09:22:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T09:22:48","slug":"breaking-popular-zaria-islamic-cleric-rigi-rigi-is-dead-photo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/breaking-popular-zaria-islamic-cleric-rigi-rigi-is-dead-photo\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Popular Zaria Islamic Cleric Rigi-Rigi is Dead [PHOTO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"the-post\">\n<p><!-- .entry-header-outer \/--><\/p>\n<div class=\"featured-area\">\n<div class=\"featured-area-inner\">\n<figure class=\"single-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"470\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/breaking-news-780x470.jpg\" class=\"attachment-jannah-image-post size-jannah-image-post wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" data-main-img=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content entry clearfix\">\n<p data-start=\"49\" data-end=\"157\">Renowned Zaria Islamic scholar, Sheikh Khalifa Usman Idris, popularly known as Rigi-Rigi, has passed away.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"159\" data-end=\"272\">The cleric\u2019s death was confirmed\u00a0on Monday morning by his son-in-law, Malama Abubakar \u018aanyaro.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"354\">\u018aanyaro said the scholar died on Sunday night at a private hospital in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"356\" data-end=\"493\">The funeral prayer is scheduled to take place on Monday after Asr prayer at Rigi-Rigi\u2019s residence in the Kusfa area of Zaria, he added.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"495\" data-end=\"659\">Before being transferred to the private hospital in Barnawa, Kaduna, the cleric had been receiving treatment at the 44 Nigerian Army Reference Hospital in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"814\">Rigi-Rigi was widely known for his humorous preaching style, with videos of his sermons circulating extensively and gaining popularity on social media.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"661\" data-end=\"814\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1898\" src=\"https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/HAIi4g0XUAEenJH-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"598\" height=\"385\" srcset=\"https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/HAIi4g0XUAEenJH-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/politicsnigeria.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/HAIi4g0XUAEenJH.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\"\/><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content \/--><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned Zaria Islamic scholar, Sheikh Khalifa Usman Idris, popularly known as Rigi-Rigi, has passed away. The cleric\u2019s death was confirmed\u00a0on Monday morning by his son-in-law, Malama Abubakar \u018aanyaro. \u018aanyaro said the scholar died on Sunday night at a private hospital in Kaduna. The funeral prayer is scheduled to take place on Monday after Asr prayer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":239334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/breaking-news.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}