Muhammadu Kobo

Muhammadu Kobo dan Aliyu Gana, OBE, CON (1910- 13 June 2002) was the 11th Etsu Lapai of Lapai Emirate, a traditional state from (1953 - June 2002) succeeded by his niece Umaru Bago Tafida II the 12th Etsu Lapai.
Education and career.
Etsu Kobo was born into the royal house of Lapai Emirate. He started his education in Agaie Elementary School from (1920 - 1922) and later attend the Bida Provincial School finishing in 1928 and then attended Katsina Teachers Training College graduated there with teacher grade II in 1932 and later had his certificate in Local Government Administration at the United Kingdom.
He started his career as a teacher in Bida province school where he also served as one term headmaster and was later transferred to Okene primary schools later changed as Okene middle school. He was also headmaster in Katsina-Ala province school and Zaria Province middle school in 1948 all his term as headmaster and later joins politics being elected member, in the Northern Federal House of Assembly he was also Tswaidan of Lapai Emirate and Bida Native Authority there he was member before his appointment as the Etsu Lapai Emirate in 1954. He was member in the Northern House of Chiefs he was awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by the Queen Elizabeth of England.
Kobo also served as head of Northern Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (NNBC) in 1953.
Publication.
He was also a writer, he published a book titled A "Short Foundation History of Lapai Emirate" in English, Hausa and Nupe.
He was an elderly statesman, his burial was led by the Etsu Nupe Umaru Sanda Ndayako and the attendance of Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, Abdulsalami Abubakar, Abdulkadir Kure, and Senator Isa Mohammed Bagudu.