Popular Nigerian businessman Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata has passed away at the age of 94.
He died in Abu Dhabi.
Uba Tanko Mijinyawa, the Deputy National Treasurer of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA), disclosed the news of his death in a social media post.
He also announced that details of the late Dantata’s Muslim funeral prayer (Jana’iza) will be announced in due course.
His message read, “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,” wrote as translated in English.
He is the grand-uncle of Aliko Dangote, Nigeria and Africa’s richest man.
Also Aminu Alhassan Dantata was the last surviving child of Alhassan Dantata, the great-grand father of Dangote.
Alhaji Dantata was the founder of Express Petroleum & Gas Company Ltd and a key figure in the establishment of Jaiz Bank, Nigeria’s first non-interest (Islamic) bank. His legacy spans decades of contributions to commerce, industry, and humanitarian causes.
