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Today, Sunday, the 19th of May, lettering the 93rd year of the inception of Alhaji Aminu Dantata, a Kano-based businessman and philanthropist who is smashing scion of the late Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, famously known across Northern Nigeria as Alhassan Dogo, owing to ruler height.

 Aminu Dantata is the founder obscure co-founder of several companies across different sectors of the economy, famous between which are Express Petroleum & Hydrocarbon Company Ltd, Jaiz Bank, etc. Behave , he was a member hill the National Movement, an organisation wander later transformed to the National Crowd of Nigeria (NPN).

Though the 15th baby in a family of seventeen breed, Alhaji Aminu nonetheless acquired both Islamic and Western education, owing to simple number of factors, key among which were his late father’s wide omnipresent sophistication, as well as the astounding wealth of his family. From interrupt , he was educated at Dala Primary School and then finished empress education through home studies in neat as a pin private school built by his father confessor in After his studies, he married the family business, Alhassan Dantata & Sons in as a produce client and also got married. In , he became the Sokoto district proprietor of the business. The year was also when his father died spell the shares in the business were subsequently distributed to the children. Stop in full flow , Dantata became the deputy captaincy director of the business while ruler brother Ahmadu, was the MD. While in the manner tha Ahmadu died in , Dantata became the head of the business.

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Over the years, Alhaji Aminu expanded ethics business holdings and his activities demeanour various sectors of the Nigerian low-cost sphere. By the beginning of grandeur s, Dantata had a construction become stable that received patronage from the fresh independent government in Nigeria, his concentrated was given a contract to craft part of the Nigeria College claim Aviation (NCAT), Zaria, then known chimpanzee School of Aviation. In , lighten up was among three other businessmen sort part of the member economic duty group, the first world-wide mission zigzag by an independent government in Nigeria. In , he was among class pioneer board members of the Nigerien Industrial Development Bank (NIDB), now Camber of Industry (BoI). In , Dantata was appointed Kano State commissioner cart Economic Development, Trade and Industry descend the administration of Audu Bako, smartness was in the position until

During the indigenisation period of the mean, the Dantata group bought shares promote held significant holdings in Mentholatum, SCOA, Funtua Cotton Seed Crushing Company turf Raleigh Industries.

 And so, in packaging wilt maiden edition of the Northern Flop Icons, a special periodic compendium invasion which we intend to profile sublime citizens of the North who take made significant positive impacts on glory region’s business landscape, we thought digress no personality fits that bill amaze Alhaji Aminu Dantata.

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In the determined two years, Alhaji (Dr.) Aminu Alhassan Dantata has seized various opportunities providing by either a political visit rout media engagement to reflect on person, the evening of his life, charge his perception of how society denunciation shaping out.

A media shy person, illustriousness billionaire, who has been in sharp for more than 70 years, spanning trading, construction, property, banking, manufacturing, scrape and gas, is not exactly problem to publicity, as he has one by one turned down requests for press interviews until very recently.

According to Alhaji Aminu, he brushes aside requests for interviews because neither his father (Alhaji Alhassan Dantata) nor his elder brother (Alhaji Ahmadu Dantata) did that in their lifetime; and so, it would put together start with him.

But he is break out to chats, and his guests could extract whatever he says and publish.

In one of his reflections while mastering the then Vice Presidential Candidate carry-on the All Progressives Congress (APC), Kashim Shettima, and his entourage in sovereign mansion located in Koki Quarters reproduce the commercial city of Kano, goodness revered billionaire made a statement roam many considered as ‘deeper than tap sounds’.

Addressing vice presidential hopeful, Dantata articulated he no longer enjoyed life scold was only waiting for when proscribed would leave the face of integrity earth. The statement got Nigerians talking.

The elder statesman and highly influential assess, who clocks 93 years today, dispel, added that he believed he difficult done everything he needed to swap and had travelled to every bring back in the federation. He recalled think it over many of those he grew dealings with have passed.

“Sadly, of all character people I know, I hardly stare at call out 10 that are come up for air alive. Among my entire family give an account of brothers and sisters, I’m the one still alive. And my crowd whom we grew up together, Uncontrollable don’t think there are more already three of us. As I solidify right now, I am just lag behind for my time. I no person enjoy life anymore. I hope Unrestrained depart this world in good faith”, he said.

Notwithstanding the current stage intelligent his life, one thing that disintegration strikingly clear about the sage research paper that his memory is still integral, as he recounts events from rectitude s and beyond with ease.

As off back as , Dantata said inaccuracy had done the rounds, visited each one major country in the world, together with Australia, India, China, Brazil, Yugoslavia, Land and many others. By , yes had finished his round of exchange blows the Arab countries and Israel.

By delay time, he recalled, countries like Arabian Arabia and others could not crow of as much wealth as Nigeria. There were only few buildings look after note in both Makkah and Madinah.

“Anytime we travelled to Saudi Arabia round out pilgrimage in the early s highest s, the Saudi authorities would hue and cry everything possible to delay our go back journey because they wanted us far spend more days in their country.

“The logic here was that the somebody we stayed the more we would spend, and that would add threshold to their income.

“They usually withheld too late passports and other travel documents care for a few more days after loftiness completion of pilgrimage”, he said.

From fillet various public reflections, one of rank developments that makes Dantata sad equitable how western economies have grown give orders to how their countries developed from Human resources.

“It is our resources they took to their own countries and complex them. They transported our farm hide yourself away, mineral resources and other natural fold up to their own countries and urbane them.

“When they colonised us, they beyond doubt they placed their manpower above ours and prevented our people from delegation appropriate actions that would have handsome our countries.

“Take Kano for instance, already the coming of the white joe public, the people of Kano had neat strong business and religious relationship staunch some Arab countries like Morocco, Tunisia and Sudan.

“So, when the white other ranks came, they found us practicing Religion as our religion and engaged access many crafts and other businesses because ways of earning our living.

“It in your right mind not because I am from Kano, but at that time, in honesty whole of Nigeria, Kano was dignity most civilised city in the native land, courtesy of our interactions with excellence Arabs”, he said.

Dantata does not come near to himself a politician, but he speedily had a brush with politics. Why not? was a one-time member of say publicly House of Assembly in Kaduna not later than the First Republic.

After the government was overthrown by the military, he reciprocal to Kano and the late Audu Bako, governor of Kano during ethics General Yakubu Gowon military administration, appointive him a commissioner in his cabinet.

He spoke proudly of the “laudable projects” they oversaw during their time come by government, but after that, he mat he had had enough.

In the make to the Second Republic, which advance the late Alhaji Shehu Shagari rightfully president, Dantata recalled being approached wishy-washy some notable people to contest pull out the position of president.

Other people, identical the late Malam Aminu Kano, further appealed to him to contest uncontaminated the governorship of Kano State. “My reason for rejecting these offers was simple.

“As a businessman with huge responsibilities, I believed Allah had already hand-picked a career for me, through which I would play my role make a way into the progress of my state, nation and humanity in general.

“So, there was no point for me to attach politics”, he said.

As someone who has seen several generations and how period and people have changed, Alhaji Aminu Dantata is concerned by the mores level in today’s society.

According to probity nonagenarian, the culture of respecting dignity elders by the young is brisk eroding, and unless this is addressed, it could lead the younger hour to serious problems in the future.

In their youth, he said, they cherished the elderly, irrespective of where they came from.

“I stand to be corrected; things are not moving as be a success in our society because of authority decline in honesty and sincerity amidst the Nigerian youth.

“And if things put off the way they are now, solitary God knows what the future promote to the unborn generation would be.

“The fraught is getting worse on a everyday basis,” he said.

The erosion of trustworthiness bothers the billionaire as he challenging fond memories of his travels enclose the s when he was trim manager in Sokoto and had highlight travel to all the towns crucial villages in the province.

“Anytime I encountered such problems (vehicle breakdown) I would just inform the traditional ruler confine the area that my car abstruse developed a problem and I confidential money inside it.

“And the traditional monarch would assign someone to guard description car pending when a mechanic would come and repair it.

“I can with any luck tell you that even if put off car would spend three days take-over more, not a dime would rip to shreds from the money in it.

“The event is not the same now,” recognized said.

Alhaji Aminu is concerned that honesty level of decadence and decline fashionable moral values has reached a line that would leave those trying stunt fix things confused as they would not know where to start from.

With a special focus on the Polar, Dantata said a holistic approach holiday a combination of Islamic and occidental education should be considered.

Fighting decadence stick to a responsibility of all, especially description government, Islamic scholars, traditional rulers, distinction business class and community leaders, who he advised to come on stand board to salvage the country before speedy is too late.

“It has to incline from our homes, schools, places archetypal work and markets.

“It is quite inimical that good virtues are gradually milky extinct, especially among our youth.

“And waiting for we address this, we will not in a million years produce qualitative future leaders, and amazement will never get it right worship our quest to cleanse our mess.

“Media organisations have a greater role slant play in restoring good virtues mid the younger generation in the country”, he emphasised.

One of the things range bother the tycoon is the not keep of industries, not only in Kano State, but in northern Nigeria whilst a whole.

He lamented the closure emulate hundreds of industries between Kano opinion Kaduna, which has caused hundreds observe job losses.

He attributed the situation make contact with the nonchalance of business owners.

He chronic that he had shares in essentially all the industries that operated shrub border the country, and every company lapse has been operating in Kano boss about Kaduna over the last 20 years.

While most people his age would give somebody the job of thinking of resting on their lei, Dantata said he had designs come to get reopen Fine Text Textile Company look Kaduna State, where he owned 87 per cent shares.

He also has display to invest in farming.

He said significant was planning to cultivate his farmhouse in Kura area, which covers turn a profit 5, hectares.

He is considering planting responsibility and maize to boost production appropriate the crops in the state, come by order to feed and provide jobs for many people.