Lagos gubernatorial hopeful, Akin Ambode and his wife were recently blessed with a bouncing baby boy. The boy arrived a few weeks ago. What is found to be special about the latest addition into the Ambode family is that, he arrived several years after their marriage. Ambode and his wife got married over ten years ago, and they experienced a delay. however, throughout the period of the delay, the couple refused to be deterred by the situation. And their joy knew no bound when God decided to visit them with their miracle. The naming ceremony of the baby took place at the Ambodes' residence in Ilupeju.
Ambode is a public finance management expert and the chief executive officer of Brandsmiths Consulting Limited – a public finance and management-consulting firm with deep knowledge of the Nigerian public sector. He is a former Accountant General of Lagos State serving in that capacity between 2006 and 2012. He served in several other capacities including Permanent Secretary Ministry of Finance, Auditor General for Local Government and across all cadres of Lagos state’s civil service for a total of 27 years before his voluntary retirement in 2012. He gained recognition for outstanding excellence by the Joint Tax Board (JTB)/FIRS on successful organization of the 1st National Tax Retreat in Nigeria in 2005.
An alumnus of Wharton Business School Advance Management Programme, Ambode has attended courses at several renowned institutions including Cranfield School of Management, Cranfield, England, the Institute of Management Development Lausanne, Switzerland, INSEAD Singapore and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Boston, USA. He holds a Masters degree in Accounting (Financial Management) and a B.Sc. degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos; a Hubert Humphrey Fellow in Accounting and Finance from Boston University, Boston, USA. He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
Ambode believes in mentoring and sees it as an effective way of helping people to develop and progress in their chosen careers and making sure they maximize their potentials.
He is the founder of the La Roche Leadership Foundation, a foundation that he founded in 2012 to attend: to the well being and prosperity of Nigerian students in all facets of their educational endeavors (be it technical, formal, social or vocational). He also believes in creating and sustaining a positive, enabling and empowering educational environment for younger groups. Ambode, himself being a beneficiary of two prestigious scholarships, the Federal Government Scholarship award for post graduate studies in 1987 and the Fulbright scholarship in 1998.
Another passion Akin has is his love for entertainment and the Nigerian entertainment industry. He believes that the entertainment industry can be a powerful voice to drive positive change in the society and economy. He has established long-standing relationships with a number of artists and supported them in various ways to inspire and stimulate innovation in the local and international entertainment space.
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