Alfred Rewane
He started his career as a manager trainee with UAC and became the beach master, Lagos Customs Wharf for the firm.In the 1940s he left UAC and focused on importing goods, especially cow bones and black pepper and then in the 1950s, he was also into the timber trade and he owned the Rex club in Yaba, Lagos where Bobby Benson was a regular musician.In the '70s, Rewane promoted a series of businesses in Sapele partnership with the Seaboard Corporation of the United States.The companies included Life Flour mills, West African Shrimps and Top Feeds.The Nigerian police arrested 7 persons in connection with his murder but 5 of the suspects died while in detention, the remaining two were freed based on weak evidence from the prosecution.