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First Female UBA Chairman Kuforiji Olubi Reportedly Dead

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The former minister of Commerce and Industry, Dr. Bola Kuforiji-Olubi, 80, is reportedly dead. 
She was said to have died on Saturday morning in Lagos.

The banker, who turned 80, was recently accompanied by one of her sons to meet President Muhammadu Buhari at the presidential Villa.
Buhari as a military Head of State appointed her the first female Chairman of United Bank for Africa.

President Buhari receives HRH Otunba Ayora (Dr.) Bola Kuforiji Olubi OON in Statehouse on 20th October, 2016 

Her highness,the Otunba Ayora Bola kuforiji Olubi served in various capacity locally and internationally. She was the 25th president Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigeria, the first female to become president of the Institute; while she was in the office she launched Accounting Technicians Course 1989–1990.

First Nigerian woman to be CEO of a multinational company (VYB Industries Limited, with British affiliates (incheape & Co Plc) and first female Chairman of a public quoted company (Bewac Plc). Otunba Ayora Bola kuforiji chair and served on the boards of many other companies. The first Chair man of Ogun, Osun River basin development (1976–1980), member governing council Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic research (NISER) . 

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