TOPSHOTS A mammoth crowd gather outside the royal palace in the northern Nigerian city of Kano for the funeral of Ado Abdullahi Bayero, the late Emir of Kano, on June 6, 2014. Hundreds of thousands of people flocked the streets of Nigeria's second city on Friday to pay their final respects to the Emir of Kano, second in the hierarchy of Nigeria's Muslim monarchs and the ancient kingdom's longest-serving emir, ruling for 51 years until his death after a long battle with cancer. AFP PHOTO / AMINU ABUBAKAR