Bukka Hut Founder, Laolu Martins Commits Suicide
Category: Bizarre & Strange News
Laolu Martins, an investment banking expert, who was also the co-founder and
executive director of Bukka Hut, is dead.
Martins committed
suicide in his home in the early hours of Tuesday, 3 am precise, after giving
up on his alleged long-fought battle against depression.
Journalist,
Eniola Daniel shared the news on Twitter writing;
”Founder of
Bukka Hut, commits suicide. The founder of Bhukka hospitality limited, Laolu
Martins was said to have committed suicide around 3.a.m today in Lekki, Lagos.
So sad.
A friend of he's claimed he committed suicide for a reason
I don’t want to state here.”
Bukka Hut is a restaurant that offers a wide
variety of tasty homemade meals.
He was a Chartered stockbroker and
a Chartered Accountant with 12 years of experience in investment banking,
corporate banking, stockbroking, asset management and pension fund management,
Martins started his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers in 1999.
He
joined Investment Banking & Trust Company Plc now Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc
where he served in the Financial Control and Trade Finance/Foreign Operations
units of the Bank before being seconded to Stanbic IBTC Asset Management Ltd
where at various times he was Financial Controller, Head Asset Management and
lastly Head Stockbroking.
He resigned in 2005 to join Shell Nig.
CPFA Ltd, the Fund Manager of the Shell Companies in Nigeria Pensions Scheme
where he was Head, Investments up till 2008 when he resigned to join Nigeria
International Security Limited, NISL, an independent financial services firm
specializing in investments within the Nigerian space.
Until his death, he was the CEO of NISL.
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