SANWO-OLU, ABIODUN, DANGOTE, OTHERS BID AKINTOLA WILLIAMS FAREWELL •He was an outstanding Nigerian, big Lagosian, says Lagos Governor Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Thursday joined his Ogun State counterpart, Prince Dapo Abiodun and Chairman of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, among other eminent Nigerians, for the funeral service of the first indigenous chartered […]
SANWO-OLU MOURNS AKINTOLA WILLIAMS, SAYS HIS LEGACIES CAN’T BE FORGOTTEN Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has mourned the passage of the first indigenous chartered accountant and elder statesman, Akintola Williams, describing his death as colossal loss. The Governor said the legacies of Akintola Williams, who died at the age of 104 in his house […]
Pa Akintola Williams Dies At 104 Nigeria’s first indigenous chartered accountant, Akintola Williams, is dead. He was 104. Williams pioneered Nigeria’s accounting profession and was instrumental in developing the country’s financial sector. Born in 1919, Williams studied accounting at the University of London and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1947. He returned to Nigeria […]
By Rasaq Adebayo The first Nigerian Chartered Accountant, Chief Akintola Williams has clocked 104 years. Willians was born on August 9, 1919. His grandfather, Z. A. Williams, was a merchant prince from Abeokuta, and his father, Thomas Ekundayo Williams, was a clerk in the colonial service who set up a legal practice in Lagos after […]
