Meet Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, the first Northerner to open a bank account in Nigeria.

Alhaji Alhassan Dantata is the great grand father of the Nigerian Business mogul and Billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote. He was the first Northern businessman to open a bank account in Nigeria in 1929.

When bank of British which is now First Bank of Nigeria opened a branch in Kano in 1929 , Alhaji Alhassan Dantata opened an account and deposited 20 camel load of Silver coins, making him the first Northern businessman to deposit money in a bank in Nigeria.

He traded in kola nuts, groundnuts, cattle, cloth, beads, precious stones and many other valuable goods. He was the major distributor of general merchandise to Royal Niger Company and one of the initiators of the groundnut pyramids in Kano

At the time of his death in August, 1955, he was the wealthiest man in West African region.

Below are more photos of him and his groundnut pyramids.

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Written By Illikannu Donald

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Northern youths must start investing and growing
They have shunned honestly and embraced western fraud.
The North and the east can handle this nation right

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Innovation growth finesse
Northern youths must start investing and growing
They have shunned honestly and embraced western fraud.
The North and the east can handle this nation right

The North and East got nothing in common. The North and Yoruba should handle their nation right cos they're one.



Learn not to bring East in irrelevant things.

The first to open a bank account in Nigeria!?
Who recorded this history?
You guys want to humanize the Dangote-Dantata makavelian escapades in Nigeria business environment?

Is there anything that has been done by those two in business within this country that can be done in any saner clime without the two finding themselves in jails with sentences longer than that Bennie Mardoff?

Don't let any motivational speaker decieve you with any stupid quote about Dangote that will lead you to Early grave,like all those their rubbish aspire to require shiit

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Meet Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, the first Northerner to open a bank account in Nigeria.

Alhaji Alhassan Dantata is the great grand father of the Nigerian Business mogul and Billionaire businessman, Aliko Dangote. He was the first Northern businessman to open a bank account in Nigeria in 1929.

When bank of British which is now First Bank of Nigeria opened a branch in Kano in 1929 , Alhaji Alhassan Dantata opened an account and deposited 20 camel load of Silver coins, making him the first Northern businessman to deposit money in a bank in Nigeria.

He traded in kola nuts, groundnuts, cattle, cloth, beads, precious stones and many other valuable goods. He was the major distributor of general merchandise to Royal Niger Company and one of the initiators of the groundnut pyramids in Kano

At the time of his death in August, 1955, he was the wealthiest man in West African region.

Below are more photos of him and his groundnut pyramids.

What's your opinion about this article.

Share in the comment section.

Follow this page for more updates.

Written By Illikannu Donald

cc; lalasticlala

Please edit the caption of the thread with "Meet Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, the first Northerner to open a bank account in Nigeria". Most Nigerians seem to enjoy the life on the lane of insincerity. This dubious act shows in the retrogressive growth of the shithole called Nigeria.