Tokunbo awolowo biography of williams
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Akintola Williams
Nigerian accountant (–)
Akintola Williams | |
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| Born | ()9 August Lagos, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria |
| Died | 11 September () (aged&#;) Lagos, Nigeria |
| Nationality | Nigerian |
| Occupation | Accountant |
| Known&#;for | First Chartered African Accountant |
| Spouse | Mabel Efunroye née Coker |
| Children | Tokunbo Seni |
ChiefAkintola Williams (9 August – 11 September ) was a Nigerian accountant. He was the first Nigerian to qualify as a chartered accountant.[1]
Williams began his education at Olowogbowo Methodist Primary School, Bankole street, Apongbon, Lagos Island, Lagos, in the early s; the same primary school his late junior brother Chief Rotimi Williams attended. His youngest brother Rev. James Kehinde Williams was a pastor in the same church, Olowogbowo Methodist Church.
His firm founded in , later grew organically and through mergers to become the largest professional services firm in Nigeria by [2] Williams participa
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About Tokunbo & Dapo Williams Foundation
Tokunbo & Dapo Williams foundation was founded in and it is a (c)(3) tax exempt organization. Below is a background to why we formed the foundation. I, Adedapo Williams, am an MD MPH originally from Nigeria. I am an attending psychiatrist and clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and neurosciences at the University of California, Riverside. My wife, Tokunbo Williams MD, and I established this foundation that aims to sponsor a suitably qualified physician in residency training in Public Health in Nigeria to study at a top US university for an MPH. This will be for one physician per year.
I attended the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife in Nigeria where I obtained my medical degree in and subsequently went into PH residency training at the same institution in I applied for a master's degree program in Biostatistics and was offered admission at Johns Hopkins University in but I was unable to attend because I could not
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Akintola Williams, First African Chartered Accountant, Turns
SATURDAY TRIBUTE
Bennett Oghifo
Chief Akintola Williams, the first African to qualify as a chartered accountant, clocked years yesterday, putting family, friends and well-wishers in celebration mood.
Akintola Williams was born on August 9, into the family of Thomas Ekundayo Williams, a clerk in the colonial service, who later trained as a legal practitioner in London and set up his practice in Lagos.
In , he lost his wife of 60 years, Mabel Efuntiloye Williams with whom he had two children, Tokunbo and Seni.
The young Williams had his education in the early s at Olowogbowo Methodist Primary School, Bankole street, Apongbon, Lagos Island, Lagos, and CMS Grammar School, also in Lagos. The bright young man then went to Yaba Higher College on scholarship of UAC, and obtained a diploma in commerce.
He moved overseas to England in to studied Banking and Finance at the University of London where he graduated in wit