About S.B. Bakare
S.B. Bakare was a businessperson.
Saliu Bolaji Bakare was a Nigerian businessman who owned one of the largest stevedore business in Nigeria during the 1960s. Originally providing staffing services to Nigerian Railways, he later extended the service into the shipping sector and acquiring some of the assets of William Hamilton Biney.
Life Bakare was born in 1922 in Ilesha to Jegede and Abigail Bakare. His father was a trader who travelled to different regions in Nigeria to conduct business. He attended two schools in Ilesha, ending his education in 1933 at St John's Anglican, Iloro, Ilesha.
Bakare owned Surulere Night club, one of the venues of Fela and the first place Fela called the shrine.
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