By Jimmy
A former National President of the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines, and Agriculture and the Iyalode of Yorubaland, Chief Alaba Lawson, is dead.
The prominent educationist and founder of the popular Alaba Lawson Group of Schools, Abeokuta died in the early hours of Saturday.
The news of her demise was contained in a statement signed by the Executive Secretary of Abeokuta Chambers of Commerce, Industry Mines and Agriculture AbdulRahman Maku.
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Here are seven things to know about the late Iyalode:
- Chief Alaba Lawson was born on January 18, 1951, into the Jiboku-Taiwo family of Abeokuta, the capital of Ogun State
- She got her diploma in education at St. Nicholas Montessori Teachers’ Training College at Prince’s Gate, England in 1973
- She started her teaching career in 1969 at Children House School, Ibara. She taught at Queen’s Gate Montessori Nursery School and Mill Hill Nursery and Junior School before she later came back to Nigeria in 1977
- Alaba Lawson later established a trading/distributing firm known as Capricorn Stores Ltd, between 1968 and 1996. She became the President of the Abeokuta Chambers of Commerce in 1995 and later became the President of the Ogun Council of Chambers of Commerce from 2000 to 2002.
- On May 25, 2017, Alaba became the first woman to be elected President of the National Association Of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines And Agriculture (NACCIMA).
- Chief Lawson was the President pro-tempore of the Forum of Female Traditional Rulers in Nigeria. She also served as chairman of the board of the Governing Council, Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Ogun State.
- She was until her death the Iyalode of Egbaland and Chairman of Chairman Board of Trustees of ABEOCCIMA.
