BIOGRAPHY OF ALHAJI SHUAIBUGARA IBRAHIM BABALLE
He was involved in the running of his father's business, the purchase and transportation of herds of cattle to different places in Nigeria. Upon the death of Baballe, he started driving the
lorry of his elder brother, Alhaji Yakubu Gombe, the first businessman in Gombe to own a lorry
as well as serve as a licensed buying agent of GBO and later UAC. Shuaibu Gara was one of
the most prominent drivers in Gombe at the time. He was among the few selected to undergo
training and obtain a driving license under European instructors at Lokoja. He was so adept at
driving trailers and lorries that he was affectionately called Gara (a Hausa short form of
Gangarami bicycle wheel-rim). Shuaibu Gara was said to be skilled at playing and running with
a bicycle wheel-rim at a tender age and eventually became a master at steering a lorry once
on the road. His ability to handle the steering wheel of a lorry was adjudged superb, hence he
was fondly called Gara, a t...