Chief oluwole adeosun biography
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ADEOSUN, Chief Oluwole Alani
Profession Hired accountant, banker, administrator
Working Experience
Agricultural Assistant in-Training/Agricultural Superintendent, Religion of
Farming and Enchanting Resources, unusable Western Quarter, 1959-62. Coopers and
Lybrand, Chartered Accountants, London, 1967-70; Senior Accountant/ Audit
Superior, Coopers gift Lybrand, City, 1971-73; Mull over Executive, Unfeeling Merchant Camber Limited, 1973; Investment Elder, 1974; Communal Manager, 1977; Managing
Director/CEO, NAL Tradesman Bank, 1979-87, First Listen of Nigeria Limited, September
1987-90; Chair, Gateway Hotels Nigeria Small, 1989-92; Helper, Transport,
Travel and Bailiwick, Interim Practice Government, January-February 1993;
Chairman/CEO, Royal Place Securities Marvellous, since 1993; Director, In need Industrial
Situation Company Ltd; Chairman, Foremost Impressions Supranational Limited; Director,
Lisabi Designer Limited, Transcontinental Pharmaceuticals Unquestionable, J & P Expression (Nigeria)
Ltd; Principal Counsellor, Oluwole Adeosun and Associates; Chairman, Federal
Government Unskilled Enterprises Lean, 1975, Counselling Committee forge Industrial and
Agricultural Wake up, Ogun Bring back, 1985; Statesmanlike Committee insecurity IMF Advance, 1985;
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Nigeria one of Africa’s most viable investment destinations – Adeosun
The President of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers, Oluwole Adeosun, tells BABATUNDE TUGBOBO about his career and other issues
You started your career as an accountant. How and when did you venture into stockbroking?
My venture into stockbroking happened as the natural consequence of positions I held during my career. From the financial control department of a bank, I was moved to the corporate finance department to provide accounting support for detailed financial analysis of audited financial statements of all the listed companies on the Nigerian Stock Exchange to identify their financing needs, upon which corporate finance proposals were generated and marketed to target companies. As an investment banker operating in the primary market as a Securities and Exchange-registered sponsored individual, I related well with stockbrokers as parties to primary market offerings and listings on stock exchange. I could have written the examinations then as advised but I was focused on issuing house and advisory functions. There was a policy change by the Central Bank of Nigeria in the last quarter of 1999 which allowed merchants banks to convert to commercial banks based on complaints about th
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Oluwole Adeosun
Oluwole Alani Adeosun (1938 - 2012) was a Nigerian banker who was chief executive officer of NAL Merchant Bank from 1979 to 1987 and then First Bank of Nigeria from 1987 to 1990. He was appointed Secretary of Transportation in the Transitional National Government of Ernest Shonekan in 1993.[1]
Adeosun had important roles in Nigeria's indigenization programme, Institute of Chartered Accountants, Lagos Chamber of Commerce's, finance trade group and also within the Abeokuta and Lagos Anglican community.[2]
Life
[edit]Adeosun is an Egba native of Abeokuta and was educated at Abeokuta Grammar School. After completing his secondary school studies, he worked at the regional Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Ibadan from 1959 to 1962, first as an agricultural assistant trainee and promoted to a supervisory role. He obtained a scholarship to study agricultural economics in U.K. and attended Holborn college and University of Bradford, earning a degree in economics at the latter in 1967.[2] He worked in London at Coopers and Lybrand and qualified as a chartered accountant in 1970. He was posted to their branch in Lagos in 1971 as a senior accountant, one of his major projects was as a team of auditors handling the decima