Defence Minister Badaru leads Nigerian govt delegation for Dantata’s burial in Madina
Story By Maryam Shehu
A Federal Government delegation has arrived in Saudi Arabia, to receive to remains of late business icon and elder statesman, Aminu Dantata ahead of his funeral in the Islamic holy city of Madinah.
Mr Dantata died in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on Saturday aged 94.
A statement by Rabiu Ibrahim, the spokesperson of of the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, disclosed that the delegation, which left Nigeria late on sunday arrived Madinah in the early hours of Monday.