Nigeria’s accomplished accountant, David Dafinone, has passed on at age 91.

Guinness World Records recognised the family of the Sapele-born administrator for producing the largest number of accountants in human history.

His three sons and two daughters are all chartered accountants, together with himself.
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Dafinone attended Abeokuta Grammar School and worked with the colonial government in Records and Registration Department in Kaduna.

He got a publicly-funded scholarship to study public administration at University of Exeter, England, in 1951.

In 1962, he became a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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