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Alhaji Ganiyu Akanbi Bello (10 July 1930 – 5 June 2014) was a prominent Yoruba community leader and business tycoon.〔 ==Background== Dr. Alhaji G A Bello, a Yoruba community ambassador in Kano, was the chairman and chief executive of Criss Cross Ltd. He was popularly known as G A Bello. G A Bello was born in Oyo State on 10 July 1930 to Abdullahi Yusuf and Sinota Bello. He was his mother's second child out of three children. According to G A Bello, he and his mother were poisoned once. The poison got stuck in his throat and had to be surgically removed in the hospital. They both survived the incident but this incident made Bello wary about people generally. Both of his parents died during his childhood and he was then sent to live with his uncle who refused to send him to school. He left his uncle and started cutting wood in order to fund his school fees. He would wake up at dawn to go to the forest and cut wood, which he would then cart back to town and sell before going to school. He later used the Railway to make his way to Kano. Married in approximately 1959 to Sakirat Ayoka Ogabi Bello, they gave birth to their first child called Tawakalitu Bello Sanusi, followed by Moriliatu Bisola Bello Sanusi, and then Basira Biodun Bello Oyefeso. The fourth child was his first son, Nurudeen Bello. Between 1966 to 1967, during the civil war in Nigeria, know as the Biafran War, G A Bello sent his wife and four children to Lagos while he stayed behind in Kano. His family came back shortly after to join him, and he had his fifth child, Shamsideen Bello. He sixth child, Fausat Bello, was born around 1970. Fausat died of measles as an infant. In 1950, G A Bello joined the Nigerian Police under British colonial rule. He resigned around 1958 and founded a company which deals in Building and Civil Engineering, a personal estate business. During the time when G A Bello was a police officer, his closest friend was Alhaji Ado Bayero, the Chief of the Nigerian Police Force. Alhaji Ado Bayero was appointed as the Emir of Kano in 1963. His company was the first to build a Storey Building in Kano on Odutola Street which is a residential estate. He later bought his first private residence along Abedee Street Sabon Gari, Kano. G A Bello opened the first filling station in Kano in 1968. Behind the filling station, he opened a club known as Criss Cross Club selling drinks and chicken and pepper soup. G A Bello's company built their first hotel, the Criss Cross Hotel, in 1971. His second hotel is known as Gab Hotel and was built in 1980. His two eldest daughters, Tawakalitu and Moriliatu, got married on the same day in 1988. Tawa married Dr Lukman Sanusi while Morili married Retired Colonel Olawale Sanusi. In 1989, his youngest daughter, Basira, married Sakiru Olanipekun Oyefeso, the founder and managing director of Standard Trust Assurance Company. His eldest son, Nuru, married Salawat Titilope. From 1990 to 2000, G A Bello was the Vice-Chairman of Independent Petroleum Association (IPMAN) in the Kano Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ganiyu Akanbi Bello」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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