Nigeria: Gowon, Shonekan Bid Williams' Wife Farewell

24 July 2009

Lagos — Former Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon, and his wife, Victoria, led other prominent Nigerians yesterday to bid farewell to the late Mrs Efuntiloye Akintola, wife of Chief Akintola Williams, the doyen of accountancy profession in Nigeria.

Former Head of the interim government, Chief Ernest Shonekan, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos, former Lagos State military governor, retired Brig.-Gen. Mobolaji Johnson, and representatives of the Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade, were among the personalities at the funeral service.

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