Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote is bereaved. The founder
of Dangote group of companies lost his niece to the cold hand of death last
week. Fatima Bello Dangote, who reportedly lost her father alongside Ibrahim
Abacha in an ill-fate plane crash in 1996 lost her 2-year battle to brain
cancer in a private hospital in the United Kingdom on Friday.
Dangote, who acted as her guardian and foster father, after
her father’s death, single-handedly brought her up and trained her through
schools and universities. The Kano-born billionaire is reported to be very
shattered by her death.
