Aminu Alhassan Dantata, renowned billionaire businessman, is dead.
He was 94 years old.
Mustapha Junaid, his aide, announced his passing early
Saturday.
“Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun. Innalillahi wa inna
ilaihi rajiun. It is with heavy heart that I announce the passing of our
beloved father Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata. May Allah grant him Jannatul
Firdaus and forgive his shortcomings. The Janazah details will be shared later
insha Allah,” Junaid wrote.
Dantata was granduncle to Aliko Dangote, the Forbes richest
black man.
Aminu’s father, Alhassan, is touted as the first Nigerian
millionaire and one of the wealthiest in West Africa in the first half of the
1900s.
Alhassan Dantata is Dangote’s great grandfather.
Aminu Dantata was commissioner for planning and development
in Kano from 1967 to 1972.
It is in the Kano and northern business scene, however, that
his name rings a bell. He was the founder of Express Petroleum & Gas
Company Ltd and one of the organisers of Jaiz Bank in Nigeria.
The first chancellor of Al-Qalam University in Katsina,
Dantata is one of the promoters of the Kano state endowment fund which supports
educational initiatives and provides grants to small-scale entrepreneurs in
Kano.
Dantata has donated funds to various institutions around
Kano.
He donated the Alhassan Dantata Haemodyalysis Centre to
Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital.
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