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One year after demise, Oando CEO, Wale Tinubu remembers Ngozi Okonkwo

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Oil tycoon and the Group Chief Executive Officer, Oando Plc, Wale Tinubu, could no longer hold his emotions today as he remembers his close ally Ngozi Janice Okonkwo, former Chief Legal Officer of Oando Plc, who bid this sinful world farewell after a long battle with deadly cancer on the 4th of June 2020 at age 45. The generous businessman had often described the deceased as a wonderful soul who was ready for every goal-oriented endeavor remembered a year after her demise by sharing his tribute on social media. Tinubu took to his verified social media page where he shared his tribute saying; “It’s been a year since we lost one of the most wonderful souls I have been opportune to meet in my professional capacity. An epitome of intellect, excellence, audacity, stealth, persistence infused with an incurable dose of optimism. Oando has missed you dearly.”

 

Ngozi-Janice-Okonkwo

After her shocking demise on the 4th of June 2020, the highly cerebral lawyer was finally laid to rest, on Saturday, 11th of July 2020 at a private cemetery in Ikoyi, Lagos. Sources averred that she had recovered and resumed her duty post before suffering a relapse during the heat of the deadly COVID-19 lockdown and was unable to travel abroad to see her doctors for proper treatment. After series of efforts by medical personnel in Nigeria to save her; she was visited by the dreaded grim reaper.

Before joining Oando, the deceased had worked as Junior Counsel with F.O. Akinrele & Co., and also with KPMG Professional Services (previously known as Arthur Andersen) as Manager in the Tax, Regulatory and People Services Unit and Head of Indirect Tax Services. She obtained LLB (Hons) from University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1997 and BL from the Nigerian Law School, Lagos in 1999.

She was a member of the Nigerian bar Association; an honorary fellow of the Association of Fellows and Legal Scholars of the Centre for International Legal Studies, Austria; an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, United Kingdom and an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, Nigeria. Ngozi was survived by her husband, Chukwunenye Okonkwo, and their four children.

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