FRC boss bags ICAN Young Leader’s Award
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has honoured the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer, Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC), Dr. Rabiu Olowo, with its 2024 ‘Top Chartered Accountant Under 40” award. The award was in recognisation of Olowo’s rising profile as a professional chartered accountant. The award was conferred on him at the […]
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) has honoured the Executive Secretary/Chief Executive Officer, Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria (FRC), Dr. Rabiu Olowo, with its 2024 ‘Top Chartered Accountant Under 40” award.
The award was in recognisation of Olowo’s rising profile as a professional chartered accountant.
The award was conferred on him at the weekend, by the 59th President of ICAN, Dr. Innocent Iweka Okwuosa, during the ICAN 2024 Award/Annual Dinner Night, which was held at the Monarch Event, Lekki, Lagos State.
Okwuosa said: “On behalf of the council and members of ICAN, we present this merit award to you under the “Young Accountants Category,” which we have introduced for the first time in this award.”
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Speaking on the honour bestowed on him by the ICAN, Olowo said the recognition was a personal challenge to him to continue to be a role model for current and future generations of accountants.
He said: “It is a great honour and I am deeply grateful. It is very humbling to be recognised in this way. It will only serve as motivation for me to continue to be a role model for current and future generations of accuontants.
“I am very happy that ICAN has recognised my work all through the years, be it when I was in the private sector and now that I am in the public sector. It is a great honour. I am deeply humbled.”
Olowo said the award would strengthen his resolve to deepen a new regime of transparency and integrity in the financial reporting in the country.