Mohammed Badaru, minister of defence
A federal government delegation has arrived in Saudi Arabia ahead of the funeral of Aminu Dantata, the late business mogul and elder statesman.
Dantata died in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on June 28 at the age of 94.
The delegation, which departed Nigeria late Sunday, arrived in Madinah in the early hours of Monday.
Mohammed Badaru, minister of defence and former governor of Jigawa, is leading the delegation.
Advertisement
Other members of the delegation include Lateef Fagbemi, attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice; Mohammed Idris, minister of information and national orientation; and Yusuf Abdullahi Ata, minister of state for housing development.
Also in the delegation are Islamic clerics — Bashir Aliyu Umar, Aminu Ibrahim Daurawa, and Khalifa Abdullahi Muhammad, imam of Dantata Mosque in Abuja.
Members of the Nigerian consulate general in Jeddah, led by Ambassador Muazzam Ibrahim Nayaya, are also part of the delegation.
Advertisement
The funeral is scheduled to take place later on Monday in Madinah.
On Saturday, Salatul Ga’ib, an Islamic funeral prayer in absentia, was held in Kano for the late Dantata.
The funeral prayer was held at the Umar Bin Khattab Mosque in Kano metropolis and was led by Ibrahim Khalil, chairman of the Kano state council of Ulamas.
Advertisement
