Dantata’s remains arrive in Madinah for burial after documentation delay

The physique of Nigerian industry icon and philanthropist, Aminu Dantata, has arrived in Madinah, Saudi Arabia, where he's going to be buried in a while Tuesday following delays linked to documentation.

Dantata, who died on Saturday in Abu Dhabi at the age of 94, had expressed a lengthy-standing care for to be buried in Islam’s 2d-holiest metropolis. His funeral used to be first and most important scheduled for Monday, but it used to be postponed due to the processing delays nice looking the Nigerian embassy and his family.

Minister of Files and Nationwide Orientation, Mohammed Idris, confirmed the fresh burial procedure at some level of an interview with the BBC, noting that closing preparations had been underway for the interment.

Sanusi Dantata, the son of the deceased, announced on social media that his father’s remains had arrived in Madinah early Tuesday.

He disclosed that billionaire businessman Aliko Dangote, who's Dantata’s gigantic-nephew, accompanied the physique from Abu Dhabi. A video shared alongside the put up showed Dangote and fellow businessman Femi Otedola seated at the airport.

Sanusi acknowledged funeral prayers will expend topic at the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah after the Asr prayer, at roughly 1:30 p.m. Nigerian time, followed by burial at the historic Baqiyya cemetery.

A federal govt delegation led by Defence Minister Mohammed Badaru arrived in Madinah on Monday to picture Nigeria at the funeral. Other members of the delegation consist of Lateef Fagbemi, Attorney-Total and Minister of Justice; Yusuf Abdullahi Ata, Minister of Speak for Housing Style; and important Islamic clerics, alongside side Bashir Aliyu Umar, Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, and Khalifa Abdullahi Muhammad, the imam of the Dantata Mosque in Abuja.

In Kano, where Dantata’s death used to be first and most important announced, a Salatul Ga’ib (funeral prayer in absentia) used to be held at the Umar Bin Khattab Mosque, led by Ibrahim Khalil, chairman of the Kano Speak Council of Ulamas.
Dantata is survived by three wives, 21 younger americans, and 121 grandchildren.