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Nigerian businessman and philanthropist (born 1931)

Aminu Dantata ((Listen^ⓘ); born 19 May 1931) is a Nigerian businessman and philanthropist who is one of the promoters of Kano State Foundation, an endowment fund that supported educational initiatives and provided grants to small-scale entrepreneurs in Kano.^[1] He is the head of a group of companies that manages his real estate and other business ventures.^[2]

Dantata is 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.^[3]

Life

Dantata was born to the family of Alhassan Dantata, who was from an Agalawa trading family, Aminu Dantata's grand-father was called Abdullahi while his great-grand father was called Baba Talatin a prosperous merchant who brought the family from Katsina to Madobi following the d