Dangote’s Billionaire Uncle, Aminu Dantata is dead.
NaijaOnPoint Nigeria reports that Alhaji Aminu Dantata, a reknown Kano businessman and an uncle to Africas richest man, Aliko Dangote, has died.
The business mogul and philanthropist died at the age of 94.
His passing was disclosed on Saturday on a Facebook post by his Principal Private Secretary, Mustapha Abdullahi Junaid.
The announcement reads, “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 entrepreneur was born on 19 May 1931, to the family of Alhassan Dantata, who was from an Agalawa trading family.
Dantata assumed executive leadership of Alhassan Dantata and Sons in 1960.
Established by his father as commodity firm trading in groundnut, kolanut and a few other commodities, Dantata later invested in some foreign enterprises operating in Nigeria.
According to his Wikipedia profile, in the 1970s, he founded Northern Amalgamated and Marketing Company Limited, this unit has two main parts, a fertilizer division generally supplying governments and a technical division trading in WARD generators and Barford construction equipment.
The firm maintained a division that held a Mercedes Benz dealership and another that maintained a terminal at Warri Port. By the 1990s, the group had changed its identity to become Dantata Organization with additional investment in oil exploration through Express Petroleum.
As part of his philosophy, Dantata was one of the promoters of Kano State Foundation, an endowment fund that supported educational initiatives and provided grants to small-scale entrepreneurs in Kano.