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Akinola Ojo

Nigerian accountant and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ137590001 ↗
Source-derived summary

Akinola Ojo is a Nigerian accountant, administrator, and politician who serves as Commissioner for Finance of Oyo State.

Education

Ojo attended King's College, Lagos from 1982 to 1987. He then studied Accounting at the University of Lagos, graduating with a bachelor's degree between 1987 and 1992. He later obtained a master's degree in Leadership and Strategy from the London Business School.

Career

Ojo has worked with both indigenous and multinational oil and gas firms.

Political career

In 2019, he was nominated by Governor Seyi Makinde for a commissioner position and was subsequently confirmed by the Oyo State House of Assembly. He was appointed Commissioner for Finance and has held the office since then.

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Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 1987, 1992, 2019—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Akinola, Nigerian and accountant can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as nigerian accountant and politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137590001. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982, 1987, 1992 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Akinola Ojo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.