Aminu Dantata
Nigerian businessman and philanthropist
Aminu Alhassan Dantata (; 19 May 1931 – 28 June 2025) was a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist who 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. He was the head of a group of companies that managed his real estate and other business ventures.
Aminu Alhassan Dantata was the founder of Express Petroleum & Gas Company Ltd and one of the organizers of Jaiz Bank in Nigeria. In 1978, he was a member of the National Movement, an organization that later transformed to the National Party of Nigeria.
Background
Dantata was born into the family of Alhassan Dantata, who was from an Agalawa trading family, Aminu Dantata's grandfather was called Abdullahi while his great-grandfather was called Baba Talatin, a prosperous merchant who brought the family from Katsina to Madobi following the death of his father Ali. Aminu Dantata's grandfather Abdullahi continued to operate from Madobi until 1877 when having set out for a journey to Gonja his wife delivered Alhassan Dantata, the father of Aminu at a campsite (Zango) of Bebeji. On his return from the journey he decided to abandon Madobi and moved to Bebeji. Aminu Dantata was the fifteenth child in a family of seventeen children. From 1938 to 1945, he was educated at Dala Primary School and then finished his education through home studies in a private school built by his father in 1949. After his studies, he joined the family business, Alhassan Dantata & sons, in 1948 as a produce buyer and also got married.
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