Hakeem Dickson
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Hon. Hakeem Dickson was born on May 5th, 1957. He had his Breadfruit Primary School in Lagos Island and then transferred to Surulere Baptist School in the late ’60s after his family relocated to Surulere, Lagos due to the construction of the Eko Bridge which greatly affected the Dickson’s family house. He completed his Primary Education at Surulere Baptist School and obtained his first school leaving certificate in 1972. Hakeem Dickson attended Victory High School, Ikeja and obtained his West African School Certificate in 1976.is a seasoned Accountant and Health and Safety practitioner by profession as well as a Politician. Hakeem Ologun Onikoyi-Dickson is an Awori Prince from Itireland and Onikoyi kingdom.
Hakeem Dickson holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Thomas A. Edison State College, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.A and two master’s degrees in Business Administration specializing in Accounting and Finance respectively, both from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Rutherford, New Jersey, the U.S.A in 1983 and 1985.
Upon completion of his National Youth Service program which he did at Nigerian Airways in 1984. Hakeem Dickson started his career at Coopers and Lybrand CPA, Newark, New Jersey as a Staff Accountant/External Auditor/ Tax Adviser in 1988.
Hakeem Dickson then returned to Nigeria to contest and won an election as the Executive Chairman of the Surulere Local Government in 1998. Afterwards, he was Director-General for Lagos State Safety Commission until 2018.
Dickson’s strengths are his ability to plan and counterplan, as well as his ability to take calculable risks and invest in people.m As both an innovative, creative, and strategic, into the bargain, Hakeem Dickson has been praised as an excellent manager of people and properties and an excellent innovator who came up with the blueprints of some of the structures that exist in Lagos today. As a business-minded individual, his appointment as Director-General of the Lagos State Safety Commission, his innovation revamped the Commission from a liability to an asset.
Hakeem Dickson is married with children.
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