COVID-19 Nat’l Coordinator, Dr. Sani Aliyu looses 96yr-old father

Late Aliyu Daneji

The National Coordinator, of Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, has lost his father, Alhaji Aliyu Daneji, at the age of 96.

A son of the deceased, Mahmud Daneji told a Kano based news medium, solacebase.com that, Alhaji Aliyu Daneji died in Kano after a protracted illness on Wednesday.

The deceased whose funeral prayers were observed early on Thursday at his residence at Sabuwar Kofar, close to Kwalli Primary School, in Kano Municipal was buried this morning.

Alhaji Aliyu Daneji was a Permanent Secretary, Kano State Ministry of Finance from 1972-1975.

He was a District Officer in Niger, Benue and Plateau.

He was Chairman Kano Cooperative bank and Kano Foundation.

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According to an elder statesman,  Alhaji Tanko Yakasai in a condolence message described the late Aliyu Daneji as an astute civil servant, honest and dedicated who worked together with Daneji as Permanent Secretary in Finance ministry while he was the Commissioner for Finance.