Iconic Nigeria’s accountant, 104-year-old Akintola Williams is dead.
Williams who is Nigeria’s first indigenous chartered accountant died in the early hours of Monday, BusinessDay reports.
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Williams pioneered Nigeria’s accounting profession and was instrumental in developing the country’s financial sector.
Born in 1919, he studied accounting at the University of London and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1947.
He returned to Nigeria and later set up his accounting firm, Akintola Williams & Co., now Deloitte & Touche, in 1952.