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Billionaire Alhaji Ishiaka Rabiu Is Dead by NASTYNASOSO: 6:37am On May 09, 2018
Billionaire Alh. Ishiaka Rabiu Is Dead.

Kano Billionaire, Alhaji Ishiaka Rabiu, according information available to Hope For Nigeria is dead.
Alhaji Rabiu was among the prominent Mallams called to prepare the late Emir of Kano for burial collapsed and died now while bathing the late Emir's body.

Rabiu was born into the family of a religious scholar, Rabiu Dan Tinki. Isyaku's religious upbringing influenced his development as a young man, as a youth, he embraced Islamic scholarship and was popularly known as a Mallam.It wasn't until the early 1960s that Rabiu delved into commercial enterprise. As a close confident of Kano businessman Ibrahim Musa Gashash, he established a procurement agency for textiles produced by the Kaduna Textile Factory, a firm controlled by Gashash. After success in trading textiles, he established his own textile factory, and was also involved in selling sewing machines. In the 1970s, three economic events, the oil and construction booms and the movement towards indigenization, helped cement his status among Kano's industrious elites. He capitalized on the favorable conditions by building housing estates and buying up shares of some foreign nationals in the country.


Isyaku Rabiu has four wives . The head of this very large family, he has 42 children and quit few grandchildren, including his first son Nafiu Rabiu, and influential Nigerian businessmen Abdulsamad Rabiu, Chairman of BUA Group, Rabiu Rabiu, owner of IRS Airlines,Naziru Rabiu, Quraish I Rabiu, Makiu Rabiu, Abdullahi Rabiu, Muhammad Rabiu and Daha Rabiu. among his grand children are Abdulrahman Ladan, Abdulsamad Rabiu, Nafiu Nafiu Rabiu And Moha Rabiu. He also has many grandchildren, all vying to live up to the great reputation of their grandfather. Isyaku Rabiu still lives in his Gorun Dutse mansion in kano, the biggest single house in kano. He is widely loved and respected and known for his generosity,and Islamic spirituality.
Re: Billionaire Alhaji Ishiaka Rabiu Is Dead by marwanafrica: 7:03am On May 09, 2018
him no get Picture, RIP mallam
Re: Billionaire Alhaji Ishiaka Rabiu Is Dead by Mynd44: 7:09am On May 09, 2018

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