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369:. Aminu Dantata is 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. In 1955, he became the
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Nigerian political and economic sphere. By the beginning of the 1960s, Dantata had a construction firm that received patronage from the newly independent government in Nigeria, his firm was given a
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in Zaria and a civil aviation training school in Zaria. A Merchandise division that was founded in the middle of the 1970s traded in building materials primarily in
Northern Nigeria. Northern Amalgamated and Marketing Company Limited, this unit has two main parts, a fertilizer division generally
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district manager of the business. The year 1955 was also when his father died and the shares in the business were subsequently distributed to the children. In 1958, Dantata became the deputy managing director of the business with his brother Ahmadu, was the MD. When Ahmadu died in 1960, Dantata
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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
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Foundation, an endowment fund that supported educational initiatives and provided grants to small-scale entrepreneurs in Kano. He is the head of a group of companies that manages his real estate and other business ventures.
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353:, 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
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During the indigenization period of the 1970s, the
Dantata group bought shares and held significant holdings in Mentholatum, SCOA, Funtua Cotton Seed Crushing Co and Raleigh Industries.
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Dantata has donated funds and buildings to various institutions around Kano. He donated the
Alhassan Dantata Haemodyalysis Center to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital. He was the first
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Society and Regional Elites: A Study of Three Associations in Kano, Nigeria. African Affairs, 93(370), 21–38. Retrieved from Jstor. Pp. 24–26
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Labinjoh, J. (1981). The
National Party of Nigeria: A Study in the Social Origins of a Ruling Organization. Africa Spectrum, 16(2), 193–201. Pp. 194. Retrieved from Jstor.
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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
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