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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:31:40 GMT
Omoyemi Akerele, founder of Lagos Fashion and Design Week Omoyemi Akerele founded the Lagos Fashion and Design Week in 2011 and is also founder and artistic director of Style House Files, the organising body behind the annual four-day fashion showcase. Style House Files is a Creative Development Agency that primarily focuses on the advancement of the Nigerian and African Fashion Industry. Omoyemi is widely regarded as a driving force behind the burgeoning Nigerian fashion industry. She helps brands gain essential international exposure through presenting showcases at Pitti Immagine in Italy, and through Lagos Fashion and Design Week.
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:37:33 GMT
Fut Conceptus Manufacturing Limited, the shoe and leather products manufacturing company which is reputed to be the biggest in whole of Africa, is owned by Olumide Wole-Madariola, who is the Chief Executive Officer. Wole-Madariola is an industrialist and entrepreneur. He is also a security consultant and Chairman, Lagos State Police Stakeholders Forum, which serves as one of the consultants to the Nigeria Police. As a young man, he had the opportunity of selling shoes for his grand father who was one of the first set of distributors to Lennard, in those days. As he grew older up, he dreamt of opening shops and selling shoes, but never thought of setting up a leather footwear factory. His shoes which are branded as FutWear are made in African, Spanish and Italian styles. They meet international standards and are exported around Africa. It has also established operations in Spain and the United Kingdom. Started in 2008, the company got off to a good start by seeking out the best expertise to train its staff. Shoe-making experts from Spain were brought in to do the training. The company also imported top-quality machinery from Italy and Spain to make sure its operations were modern and efficient.These first, smart moves have meant the company is able to run an efficient and high-skilled operation in Nigeria, while also making its products to international standards. Their range of products covers anything that has to do with leather, from Men's Shoes, to Women Shoes, Kiddies Shoes, Belts, Bags, Gift Items etc. Fut-Conceptus early this year was said to have bought over Nuneco, a leading footwear company from Spain in a deal that was said to be worth several millions of dollars. www.nollywoodgists.com/news/3094/bukky-wright-emerges-face-of-fut-conceptus.html
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:39:02 GMT
Dele Bakare is the Chief Executive of Findworka, an online place for services and also the co-founder of JobsinNigeria. He co-founded JobsinNigeria with long-time friend, Tayo Olufuwa, a certified ethical hacker. Dele Bakare is also a co-founder of the $400k-backed BudgIT platform, and Bosstable, an HR software. Bosstable has a complete suite of HR applications covering all company needs, from recruitment to managing staff records and compensation, all seamlessly integrated. JobsInNigeria (JIN) was a social recruitment resource for the unemployed and employed professionals, in Nigeria. It was shut down recently for re-engineering & overhauling. JIN was a web and mobile platform that allowed jobseekers to find jobs and connect with employers in real time. It was at some point, one of Nigeria’s leading job board with over 200,000 members in over 15 countries across Africa. The app crossed the 150,000 downloads mark, was a finalist for the Anzisha prize for Africa in 2013 and Leap Africa awards nominee as a social innovation product Findworka provides an online marketplace where users can search for any type of artisan or service provider they need for a project; or post a project listing and invite applications. According to the founder Dele Bakare, the startup stems from the experience that “most people have trouble finding competent and trustworthy service providers who deliver without drama.”“We have all experienced challenges with people we hired to fix our phones, make our furniture or service our generators and did horrible jobs.”
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:39:53 GMT
Olateju Oyeleye was an engineer, broadcaster and skilled manager of men and resources. He started the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) with his friend in the late fifties. After studying engineering in the UK, he joined a broadcasting station, on his arrival in Nigeria. He rose to become the General Manager of the Western Nigerian Television - Western Nigeria Broadcasting Services (WNTV-WNBS), the first television station in Africa. During his tenure, the coverage of the station was significantly expanded. From there he joined Total Nigeria Plc as the General Manager, from where he rose to become the Group Executive Director, of the downstream oil company. Under his watch, several of its subsidiaries such as Nigerian Gas Cylinder Manufacturing Company (NGCMC), Ibadan; Total Industries Ltd. Koko; Total Agrik Ltd., Olokoto (now Yakoyo Agrik Ltd.) and Rhone-Total Nigeria Ltd, were developed. Unfortunately, the NGCMC closed down several years later, due to several constraints. He retired from Total in 1992, to establish his own engineering and management consulting firm, and Yakooyo Agrik Farms. He died on July 8, 2013 at the age of 89 years.
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:40:59 GMT
Greg Odutayo is a man who knows his profession, inside out. He spent over 22 years gaining top flight experience in the Film and Television industry, as a trained film & video director and manager. His career spanned companies like Ogilvy Benson & Mather (OBM Nigeria), SO & U (Saatchi & Saatchi), Bates Cosse (Nigeria) etc., before he decided to set up Royal Roots Communication Networks Limited.Odutayo is an alumnus of the prestigious Owner Manager Programme of the Lagos Business School, Pan African University, Lagos. He has built a fully equipped, world class TV studio worth millions of naira, from scratch. The Royal Roots Studio is Nigeria's newest film and television studio complex. The studio is equipped with all the studio facilities needed to produce any genre of television show; be it reality shows, light entertainment, award winning situation comedy, factual drama, talk shows etc. His TV production credits include - Bella’s Place, My Mum & I, Edge of Paradise, Deal or No Deal Nigeria, Tides Of Fate, House A-part, Global Cuisine etc. Royal Roots has experienced creative minds, with a pulse on current trends, and diverse perspectives, drawn from different backgrounds. This has given the company a pool of talent, with which they can meet clients' diverse demands in production services, media production, marketing, and design and communication. The firm also offers Events Management Services and a Brand Management System, whereby every programme/brand under management for clients, is handled by a brand manager working within a management cell. Royal Roots Communications Network are also the owners of R2TV and now R2 92.9FM. R2 92.9 FM was officially launched on Friday, November 11, 2016 in Ibadan, Oyo state, and is basically a youth-centred radio station targeted at both genders (male and female), between the ages 15 – 35 year old. The station is powered by youth talent and with a passion for youthfulness where youths are given a voice and a medium of expression. R2FM showcases light entertainment such as Fashion, Lifestyle, Music, Drama, Talk shows – discussions & debates, Sports, News – strictly entertainment news.
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:42:56 GMT
Abayomi Sonuga is known to many people, as a dealer of a wide variety of high class cars, under his brand name, Bras Motors. But very few folks are aware that he also owns and sells boats, ferries and all kinds of watercraft, under the auspices of his firm Bras Marine and Yacht Services’ Limited. Two years ago, he partnered with a few friends to host the Annual Boat and Yacht Exhibition at Bay Lounge, Lekki, Lagos. His company is poised to ensure that clients, have access to brand new boats and cruisers, with top class after sales services and genuine spare parts. Sonuga's company, which started operations a year and half ago, focuses on the sale, lease, and servicing of luxury boats and cruisers in Nigeria. He signed a partnership deal with Sea Ray Marine, a Knoxville, US-based globally renowned luxury boat and yacht builder with 30 per cent market share. The partnership also gives his company access to genuine parts and accessories produced by Brunswick Marine, makers of Mercury engines.
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:46:16 GMT
Ade Kassim has had an interesting career as an Oracle Solutions Architect. It is a job that has taken him to Australia, Belgium, New Zealand, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom. He was even nominated for Consultant of the Year Award for the Australasia region, representing Oracle New Zealand. During his journey to different countries, Ade Kassim (or 'Kass', as he is popularly called) dreamt of lush meandering vines, grape-stained hands, and golden light washing over his own vineyard. Life passed through years of travel, career and family, but the dream remained constant until he bought a vineyard, in Australia. Nestled on the outskirts of Mansfield in the foothills of the Victorian Alps, Kass became custodian of the mature vines, passed on from a man who had planted the seeds, and sown the story. Grape growing is a fine balance between art, science, patience and hard work. To help maintain the symmetry, Kass brought on board, expert viticulturist, Timo to help him create the right blend of wines from his vine. When the grapes were hand-picked, Kass employed the expertise of Ros, an award-winning local winemaker to press the fruit and make the juice Today, his vineyard produces Vitis Botanica, a light refreshing finely crafted wine, without alcohol.
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:47:05 GMT
Ebenezer Ajayi Fashogbon is a Medical Radiation Practitioner(MRP) resident in Australia. He is the owner of GIG Radiology in Australia. GIG Radiology was founded in Traralgon in May 2005, and was known as Gippsland Imaging Group. GIG quickly grew by acquiring MDI Pakenham and MDI Rosebud sites, in 2009. It was then that Gippsland Imaging Group became GIG Radiology. In February 2012, GIG Radiology opened a new clinic in Cranbourne North, and soon after that was 100% privately owned by GIG Radiology's very own Senior Sonographer - Ebenezer Fashogbon. Eb led the way with his small and hardworking team to open the fifth clinic at the Arena Shopping Centre in Officer which launched in April 2015. The centre is fully equipped with different kinds of specialised equipment and well-qualified staff. CT Scanning X-Ray Services Dental X-Ray Services Musculo-Skeletal Ultrasound Obstetric ultrasound
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:48:39 GMT
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 3:58:05 GMT
Bola is a UK-trained lawyer and entrepreneur. Following graduation from Manchester Metropolitan University in 1992, he started his legal career with T&N Plc as an in-house lawyer before moving into private practice with Messrs Linder Myers (Manchester) and Davenport Lyons (London). Bola left legal practice in 2001 when he co-founded and became CEO of Maine Oil & Gas Limited an oil Exploration & Production Company. He spearheaded the acquisition of oil blocks OPL 234 and OPL 454 in 2005. Bola subsequently built a portfolio of interests and served on the Boards in the capacity of CEO or Executive Director, of a number companies operating in the Energy and Extractive Industries sector, such as Alphapetro (Pty) Ltd, Astra Petroleum Ltd, (Petroleum Trading), Doxford Power (UK), Genesis Electric (Power Generation), PPI Group, EER Petroleum Limited (Upstream) and Allied Minerals Limited (Mining) amongst others. Bola also currently serves as Chairman of Shipbuilding Company, Trans Ocean Consultants. Lambert Willis started as a merger between Lowndes Lambert in London and Rasheed Alaba Williams in Nigeria to form Lambert Willis & Associates in 1969,a firm that grew to become one of the top five indigenous insurance brokerage firms in Nigeria. Lambert Willis & Associates later decided to diversify its interests by coming together with the other four largest brokerage companies at the time which where, T.A Braithwaite & Co, African Insurance Brokers, Femi Johnson & Co and J Akin-George to create the United African Insurance Brokers (UAIB) in 1974. UAIB was initially set up as a Lloyds company in conjunction with Willis Faber & Dumas Ltd, London. UAIB later moved to Nigeria in 1992 and wound up its Lloyd registration in 1996 and ever since its operation has grown and still exists today. The vision of the founding fathers was to create capacities for African Markets to meet the need in the African insurance market based on international best practices. When its chairman decided to retire Lambert Willis & Associates was rebranded as Lambert Willis Investment Company Ltd, a broad based investment group acting as a bridge for foreign companies coming into Nigeria. We are motivated by our commitment to local capacity development, operating at the highest international standards, with integrity as our cornerstone. Our interests lie mainly in maritime, financial services, environmental remediation and energy sectors respectively, with a team, advisory board and associates that have over 50+ years of combined experience over a wide range of our chosen sectors. BOLA ADEFEHINTI CEO
Lambert Willis & Associates
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 4:10:56 GMT
Mrs. Omotayo Adeola is the CEO and founder of Restorium Capital Limited. Before founding Restorium Capital she has gathered over 25 years’ experience in Investment Banking; originating, structuring and executing complex transactions, Treasury Management, Mortgage Banking, Securities Trading (including Fixed Income and Equities), Business Development, Risk Management, Compliance, Asset and Wealth Management, Project Management and Financial Advisory. A versatile and well exposed Investment Banker; Mrs. Adeola began her career with Icon Limited (Merchant Bankers) in 1991, joined Consolidated Discounts Limited in 1996 as a pioneer securities dealer and managed assets in excess of 1.2billion USD. She was the Chief Operating Officer of Safetrust Mortgaged Bank Limited and Managing Director/Chief Executive of Capital Express Asset & Trust Limited. She has attended various training programs both locally and internationally including EuroMoney Asset & Liability Training, EuroMoney International Asset Management, EuroMoney Private Banking, Enterprise Risk Management (Dun & Bradstreet), Fixed Income workshop (ICAP) amongst others. Adeola is a fellow of the Wimboard Institute, Pension Institute of Nigeria and the Portfolio Management Institute; Cerified Risk Analyst, Senior Associate of the Risks Managers of Nigeria, an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and an authorized dealing Clerk of the Nigerian Stock Exchange. Mrs. Adeola holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics (second class upper division) from the University of Ado Ekiti, a Master of Science degree in Finance and Banking from the University of Lagos and Treasurers Dealership Certificate of the Financial Market Dealers Association (FMDA). She served as the Assistant Secretary General of the FMDA and a member of the Risk Management sub-committee of the bankers committee on Basel II Accord. She serves on the Executive Committee of The Risks Managers Association of Nigeria since 2012. Mrs. Adeola is an avid reader, a member of the Haggai Institute, the Chartered Institute of Bankers, the International Women Society, Institute of Directors (M.insD), She has also attended executive development programs of both local and international institutions including prestigious Harvard Law School, National University Of Singapore, IE Business School, Madrid and Lagos Business School. Omotayo Adeola CEO & Founder
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 4:24:05 GMT
Fashpa and the face of the ever rising African fashion industry Driven by the desire to impact lives, she is the founder of e-commerce platform, Fashpa. She’s all about building a sustainable online retail businesses and is also convinced women are essential to the “Africa Rising” narrative. Oyindamola Honey Ogundeyi is the queen of Fashpa and the face of the ever rising African fashion industry. Young, pretty and elegant, Oyindamola is one of the visionary Africans who have gallantly secured a brilliant position for African women to be seen, heard and celebrated in business, especially in the fashion industry. With her “student’s mite” Oyindamola founded fashpa, a retail ecommerce startup whose main focus is to provide on trend clothing at affordable prices, with the use technology. Its key focus areas include: sourcing, logistics, customer service and user experience. “Ten years ago, I came back to Nigeria after university to complete my NYSC before starting out at Mckinsey & Co. I wanted to purchase a pair of shoes and the options were basically super expensive at a brick and mortar store or cheap knockoff version at an open air market and I ended up ordering a pair abroad. I remember thinking there must a viable option in Nigeria if you don’t want to sacrifice on price or brand and still want a cool pair of work shoes at good price. Since that time, I gained a lot of experience in technology, retail and business and moved back to Nigeria. The problem of accessing trendy clothing at great prices still existed .However this time the Internet provided a unique opportunity to solve it at scale and build a fashion brand that would serve a fashion conscious customer. As they say, planning met opportunity – it was the perfect time to start Fashpa.com.” She tells Leading Lady Africa in an interview.
Since its inception in 2013, fashpa has established a position as Nigeria’s leading online fashion retail store. The company name, fashpa was coined from the phrase “Fashion Parade”. An expression which was used during Oyindamola’s days in high school to describe Fashion Pageants or competitions or as an expression when someone was looking particularly dressed up. Having traversed different areas of business and the corporate world, from Banking and Brand Management to Internet and Telecoms, the power woman remains a force to be reckoned with in Africa and beyond. In 2014, she was selected as one of the ambassadors for the Junior Achievement of Nigeria (I am JAN) campaign. The journey, according to Oyindamola has been enormously challenging, but totally worth it. Source(right)
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 4:35:20 GMT
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 4:37:28 GMT
Chief Bode AkindeleThe Parakoyi of Ibadanland and the Chairman of Madandola Group, is today celebrated as a successful entrepreneur and a renowned industrialist in Nigeria. Chief Bode Akindele was born 83years ago, precisely on the 2nd of June 1932. His father, Pa Joshua Laniyan Akindele, was a Chief Tax Clerk for the whole of the Western Region and as such his position can be equated to that of the Chairman of the Inland Revenue today and his mother, Rabiatu Adedigba, was a wealthy Ibadan trader who was politically influential. It is interesting to note that Alhaja Rabiatu was the first woman to go to Mecca in Ibadan. Chief Akindele’s business empire operates under the name Modandola Group Of Companies, named after his mother, which translates to ‘God, if you give me the wealth, give me a child that can take care of it.’ Madandola Group spans from maritime to properties, manufacturing, real estates, investments, finance and flour milling with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The Fairgate Group, (a company owned by Chief Akindele, located on Bond Street, London, England), deals mainly in properties. Some of its tenants include giant retail stores like Sainsbury and Asda Wall Mart. As at the last quantification, the Fairgate Group was said to be worth over a billion pounds sterling.Among the subsidiaries of the Madandola Group making waves in the business world include Standard Breweries, Ibadan, Diamond Foods Ltd, Ibadan, United Beverages Ltd, Ibadan, Associated Match Industry, Ibadan, merged with Ilorin, Port-Harcourt and Lagos to form a company with a large share of the Nigerian market and Standard Flour Mills in Lagos. Bode Akindele was not born with a Silver spoon. His encounter with schooling was quite an interesting one. He would help his elder brother carry his school bag to Baptist School, Idikan, Ibadan, when they lived in Mapo, trekking the distance. He later enrolled at Olubi Memorial School Ibadan. He attended Lisabi Commercial College, in Abeokuta for his secondary school education. Though he had wished to attend Grammar School or Boys High School just like his friends, he was restricted due to his inability to pass the arm test. However, the business mogul believed that it was God who was preparing him for something great in life. Basically, feeling inferior being in a commercial school could be quite understandable. Most parents wanted their children to become lawyers and doctors and for that reason commercial education was a no go area as it was not so popular. Today, Akindele is of the opinion that it was at the Commercial School that he received the training that has helped him in building a successful business in life. After completing his secondary school education, Akindele and a couple of his friends had nursed the idea of traveling to the United Kingdom to study Law, but the growth of his business activities eventually took precedence. Like his other peers, he was given money to obtain a passport but rather than go for the international passport, the young Bode, who was more business inclined at that time, used the money to place an order for a sewing machine which he sold at good profit. He got his first paid employment in 1952, as secretary to an assistant district officer and later became a cadet manager with the United Africa Company (UAC), where he was an assistant to the expatriate manager at Oyo. Akindele left UAC foods for the Western Nigerian Union of Importers and Exporters. Akindele realised that becoming a civil servant, which his father had desired, was not what he wanted to do. He had developed a good business orientation during his college days. He helped his mother who had a factory in the North where dried meat is prepared for the market in the South. He registered his first company at the age of 20, sourced for goods from anywhere in the world as he sold everything, including medicine, which he got from a pharmacy in Lagos. He was one of two federal agents out of a dozen in Lagos for whom the produce trade was profitable. He bought land in Agege, a Lagos suburb and constructed a 80ft by 350ft warehouse where he stockpiled and grade cocoa. The importation of goods and the high volume of cocoa exports led to an interest in clearing and forwarding and road haulage. A company was set up (Coastal Services Ltd.) and that led to the termination of patronage with Umarco and Panalpina. Later, he became a shipping agent, chartering vessels in London and using old school connections with the National Bank of Nigeria which had opened a London office in 1956, to finance his transactions. During the 1970s, the Group opened a large roll-on roll-off (RORO) terminal and warehousing operation at Tin Can Island port. The RORO Terminal Company was the managing agent of the Nigeria Ports Authority for RORO terminals in all Nigerian ports. The Group also started fishing venture after securing four trawlers from Ghana in 1971. Obelawo Farcha Fishing Industries Ltd currently has a fleet of 28 trawlers and five shrimpers are under construction. In the early 1980s, the Group expanded into boat building and ship repair as well as dry-dock facilities in a joint venture with Damen Shipyards of Holland. A new phase in the development of the Group began with the start-up of manufacturing and process industries at Alomaja, a village very close to Ibadan. These included a large brewery, biscuit, plastics and soft-drinks (the largest single unit in Nigeria) factories, four match factories acquired from Lebanese owners and a large flour mill with $80 million invested. The group has also been active in construction, real estate and equity investment and farming. Its first experience in construction was a joint venture with DC Savage, an American company that built the US embassy in Lagos and the Lagos Durbar Hotel. Savage left Nigeria and the Modandola Group sustained some losses before it closed down operations. The Group opened a full service-advertising company, Oricom (Nig.) Ltd in 1983. Initially, the agency did well and made publicity through the ‘Oricom Lectures’, sponsorship of beauty competitions and sporting events. To honour his mother, the octogenarian and philanthropist decided to build the ARAMED Medical Centre in Ibadan to assist human kind in the society. Just like the Modandola name was one of his mother’s names, ARAMED is also named after his mother as it stands for Alhaja Rabiatu Adedigba Medical Centre and regards ARAMED as the healing ministry of Bode Akindele Foundation. Chief Bode Akindele in no doubt a man of esteemed virtues and we have chosen this day to honour and celebrate you DAWN Commission
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Post by Her Highness on Aug 26, 2017 4:52:15 GMT
Otunba Olasubomi Michael BalogunOtunba Subomi Balogun is regarded as one of the foremost bankers in Nigeria today, having established the first successful indigenous bank. He was born in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, on March 9, 1934, to Muslim parents. Otunba, as he is fondly called, read Law in England and happens to be the first Nigerian to receive special training in Legal Drafting. He is a trained lawyer whose tremendous success in the financial sector has since overshadowed his law profession. He is fondly referred to as the Grand-master and Baron of the Nigerian Capital and Money Market. He graduated from Igbobi College in 1952 with Grade 1 and LLB Honours from the London School of Economics in June 1959 and was called to the English Bar in December 1959. He was an Assistant Parliamentary Counsel in 1962, First Principal Counsel and Company Secretary to the Nigerian Industrial Development Bank from 1966 to 1975, and Director of Operations for Icon Securities Limited in 1973. He is a member of the Council of Stock Exchange representing City Securities Limited and Icon Securities from 1973 to 1988. He resigned from Icon Limited (Merchant Bankers) in December 1977 to set up his own company, City Securities Limited, the first Nigerian institution to combine stock broking and issuing house, and in 1979 set up the first solely Nigerian-owned merchant bank known then as First City Merchant Bank. He also set up a Chair for Capital Market Studies in the Department of Economics, University of Ibadan, in 1987 and became a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management in August 1988. He donated the Iye Subomi’s Child Care Centre to the Ijebu-Ode General Hospital in 1989 and started construction of the Otunba Tunwase National Paediatric Centre in 1994, which was commissioned in 2000. In that same year, he established the Otunba Tunwase Foundation and published his memoirs, ‘Cross, The Triumph and The Crown’ in August 2000.
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