Nigeria, July 1 -- The Senate has postponed the zonal public hearing on the Review of the 1999 Constitution for the North-west region, initially scheduled to be held in Kano State, as a mark of respect for the late business mogul and elder statesman, Aminu Dantata.

The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, disclosed this during the plenary on Tuesday after the senators returned from a closed-door session that lasted about two hours.

"We resolve to observe one minute's silence, in honour of the late Lachie Aminu Dantata, and also resolve to postpone the Zonal Conventional Conference of the North-west to a date to be mutually agreed between the stakeholders of the North-west as soon as the deputy senate president is back from Saudi Arabia,"...