The chairman of Tahir Guest Palace Hotel in Kano State, Tahir Fadlallah, is dead.
Family sources disclosed that the owner of the five-star hotel died in the early hours of Friday in Beirut, Lebanon after a protracted illness.
Late Fadallah died at the age of 74 According to the family source.
The source further revealed that the late hotel owner had suffered renal failure for over two hours and has been on dialysis.
The source added that the remains of late Fadallah will arrive in Kano State from Lebanon on Saturday for burial.
Meanwhile, the Kano State Acting Governor Dr .Nasiru Yusuf Gawuna has commisserated with the family and the Lebanese community in the country over the passing of a notable industrialist Mr.Tahir Fadlallah.
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The condolence message was contained in a statement by Hassan Fagge, the Chief Press Secretary to the Acting Governor and issued to newsmen on Friday.
He said: I received the news of the death of Mr.Fadlallah with shock.
Gawuna pointed out that the Late entrepreneur had made remarkable contributions to the development of Kano State as a businessman and philanthropist which culminated to the solid and cordial relationship with the Government and people of Lebanon.
He will be greatly missed. I therefore on behalf of Governor Abdullahi Ganduje, the Government and people of Kano State extend our condolence to the deceased’s family and his friends.
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The Acting Governor also urged the family to take equanimity of the deceased’s loss to death,describing death as inevitable to everybody.
He prayed that Almighty Allah bless the soul of the deceased and reward him with Jannatul Firdaus.
