Popular Hausa singer and Kannywood star El-Mu’az Birniwa has passed on in Kaduna on Wednesday night.
The singer reportedly collapsed on the pitch and later died during a football match to celebrate the upcoming wedding of his musician friend Auta Waziri. The wedding was slated to hold tomorrow (Friday).
His janaza (funeral prayer) is slated to hold by 1:00pm at the Zangon Daura mosque in Kaduna.
“El-Mu’az slumped in the heat of the game and gave up the ghost shortly after,” a friend said, praying to Almighty Allah to forgive the singer.
Dateline Nigeria reports that the singer’s colleagues, including those in Kannywood, have taken to their social media handles to mourn his death.
El-Mu’az Birniwa was born in Unguwar Kaji in Kaduna but was originally from Birniwa Local Government Area of Jigawa State.
