The Ghanaian Minaret

Accra: The 40-day adua (supplication) for the late business mogul, Alhaji Asoma Banda, will be held on Thursday, April 10, 2025.

The event to be held at the Asoma Banda Mosque in Accra will be under the spiritual guidance of the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Usman Nuhu.

The Abu Banda family announced the date during a press briefing on Tuesday, April 8, 2025.

In his address, the head of the Abu Banda family, Alhaji Mohammed Abu Banda, said the family has not sanctioned any other event apart from the adua on the said date.

He has therefore urged the media and the public not to give traction or honour any funeral event that is to be held without the family’s authorisation.

He called on Ghanaians to honour the wishes of their illustrious son, who died in the early hours of Saturday, March 1, 2025, the first day of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan.

He was buried on the same day at the Banda mosque premises.

Asoma Banda was born in June 1933 at Kintampo in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana into a family with a strong business orientation.

He started working at a tender age with his father in the road transport business, where he showed early signs of hard work and entrepreneurship.

He would later become a wealthy businessman who served on the board of some public and private institutions, such as the Ghana Port and Harbours Authority, Meridian Port Services, Ghana Maritime Authority, Shippers Council, Ghana Airways, Cal Bank, CFAO Ghana, BUSAC Fund, and JESCAN Construction Limited.

The former chancellor of the University of Education, Winneba, was also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ghana Police Trust Fund and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Ghana College of Physicians and Surgeons and chairman of the Crime Prevention Foundation.

The state conferred on him the prestigious Award of the Companion of the Order of Volta, and he was given the title of Fellow by the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) for acts of benevolence in 2002 during the university’s Special Golden Jubilee Congregation Award.

KNUST and the University of Cape Coast also conferred on him an honorary degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) and an honorary degree of Doctor of Entrepreneurship (Honoris Causa), respectively.