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Exchange. He remained actively involved with these organisations into his old age. At a stock exchange ceremony in May 2011, he called on operators to protect the market and ensure there was no scandal. He said that, if needed, market operators should not hesitate to seek his advice on resolving any problem.
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Williams played a leading role in establishing the
Association of Accountants in Nigeria in 1960 with the goal of training accountants. He was the first President of the association. He was founding member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. He was also involved in establishing the
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Williams began his education at
Olowogbowo Methodist Primary School, Bankole street, Apongbon, Lagos Island, Lagos, in the early 1930s; 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,
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Companies Act of 1968, which required that companies operating in Nigeria formed locally incorporated subsidiaries and published audited annual accounts. The drive in the early 1970s to encourage indigenous ownership of businesses also increased demand. In 1973, AW
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for services to the accountancy profession and for promotion of arts, culture and music through the
Musical Society of Nigeria. The Akintola Williams Arboretum at the Nigerian Conservation Foundation headquarters in Lagos is named in his honour. On 8 May 2011, the Nigeria-Britain Association
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Between April 1999 and May 2004, Akintola
Williams & Co. merged with two other accounting firms to create Akintola Williams Deloitte (now known as Deloitte & Touche), the largest professional services firm in Nigeria with a staff of over 600.
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He married Mabel
Efunroye Williams (née Coker) who was a member of the Coker family, a very prominent and influential family in Nigeria. Akintola Williams' brother-in-law, Mr. F.C.O. Coker, along with Williams helped create the
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Consultant Ltd, a management consultancy headed by Chief Arthur
Mbanefo, was spun off. The company acquired a computer service company and a secretarial service, and in 1977, the company entered into an agreement with
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Society of Nigeria. In April 1997, Williams was appointed a
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on a UAC scholarship, obtaining a diploma in commerce. In 1944, he travelled to England where he studied at the
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Akintola Williams was born on 9 August 1919. His grandfather, Z. A. Williams, was a merchant prince from
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