General Ishola Williams (rtd) is an octogenarian born and bred in Lagos. He attended primary and secondary schools in Lagos among is Kings College, where he graduated in 1962. He joined the Army in 1964 and rose through the ranks to become the commandant of Army Signals, Commander of Training and Doctrine (TRADOC) and Chief of Defence Training and Planning, from where he resigned from the Army in July 1993. A former Chairman of the Nigerian chapter of Transparency International. He then embarked on a new career as a political and social activist. He is a crusader against corruption. He is happily married to Prof. Stella Williams, a retired Professor of Agricultural Economics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State and they are blessed with four children.