Renowned billionaire businessman, Aminu Alhassan Dantata is dead.
He was 94-years-old.
Mustapha Junaid, his aide, announced his death early Saturday.
Junaid wrote, “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.”
The news of billionaire businessman’s demise was also confirmed via a social media post on Saturday by the Deputy National Treasurer of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), Uba Tanko Mijinyawa.
According to him, details of the Muslim funeral prayer (Jana’iza) for Dantata will be announced in due course.
“Inna Lillahi wa’inna ilaihi Raji’un. Allah ya yi wa babanmu Dattijo, Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata, rasuwa. Muna addu’a Allah ya jikan sa, ya gafarta masa. Za a sanar da lokacin jana’izarsa,” Tanko wrote in Hausa language.
Tanko’s message about the late philanthropist, who is also an uncle to Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, was translated as “Indeed, we belong to Allah and to Him we shall return. May Allah have mercy on our father and elder, Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata. We pray for his forgiveness. The time of his funeral will be announced.”
Dantata has donated funds and buildings to various institutions around Kano. He donated the Alhassan Dantata Haemodyalysis Center to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital.lahi wa inna ilaihi rajiun. It is with a 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 said.
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.
