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Gombe Governor, Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya with the Chairman of Dangote Group of companies, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, left, during the condolence visit in Gombe
By Akanji Alowolodu, Gombe
Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya, earlier today in Abuja, received the founder and President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote who paid him a condolence visit over the demise of his younger sister, Hajiya Aishatu Yahaya Umaru .
Hajiya Aishatu, aged 48, died recently in Gombe after a protracted illness.
The business magnate and Africa’s richest man who was at the Gombe Governor’s lodge, Asokoro, conveyed his heartfelt condolences to Inuwa Yahaya and through him, the entire members of the bereaved family.
He urged them to take solace in the fact that “To Allah belongs what He takes, and to Him belongs what He gives, and for everything He sets a specific term. So we should have patience and seek the reward from Allah”.
Special prayers were led Engr Mansur Ahmed for Allah’s rahman upon the soul of the deceased, and for Him to grant her Aljannat Firdaus and her family to bear the great loss as contained in a statement by Ismaila Uba Misilli, Director-General, (Press Affairs), Government House, Gombe.
