The body of Sani Dangote, a younger brother to Africa’s richest man, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, is billed to arrive Nigeria, on Tuesday, from the United States (US).
Sani, the Group Vice President of the Dangote Group, died on Sunday after a brief illness in the US.
A source close to the family said, “Sani Dangote had been battling colon cancer and he travelled to the US in search of a cure, but as God willed, he died at the age of 61.
“Indeed, the Dangote family really feel the death, but we have accepted it with total submission to the will of Almighty Allah.”
Sani is survived by his aged mother, wife, eight children and brothers and sisters.
Since the news of Sani’s death filtered in, sympathisers have been thronging the Dangote family residence at Koki Quarters in Kano City.
However, Daily Trust gathered that the funeral prayer may be observed at the residence of Aliko Dangote in Nasarawa GRA.
When our reporters visited the Koki Quarters’ family home of the deceased, it was observed that the daily feeding of hundreds of indigents went ahead as usual.
“We have gathered here as we use to, and if not for one of Hajiya Mariya’s maids we wouldn’t have known that Hajiya has lost one of her sons.”
“We have held a special prayer session for her late son and we will keep praying for his soul to rest in peace,” said an aged woman, Malama Hinde Bako.
Before his death, Sani Dangote was the Group Vice President of Dangote Industries Limited and Deputy Chairman of the African Gum Arabic Producers Association (AGAPA) and a two-time President of the Lagos Polo Club.
He was also a member of several chambers of commerce, a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Shipping of Nigeria (CISN) and President of the Fertiliser Producers and Suppliers Association (FERSAN), as well as the owner of Dansa Foods Limited, Dansa Energy, Sagas Energy Limited, Bulk Pack Services Limited, Dansa Agro Allied Limited and Dangote Farms Limited.
