Category: Finance – Budget
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OGWUMA, Paul Agbai; Economist, Chartered Accountant, administrator and Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN between 1995 and 1999. He is a recipient of the national honour of the order of the Federal Republic, OFR. Born in Isiala Ngwa, Abia State in April 24, 1932, Ogwuma was at various times, Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of…
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Akintola Williams; the doyen of chartered accountants in Nigeria. Williams is Nigeria’s first chartered accountant. Impressed by the high standard of accounting practice in the United Kingdom, he saw a need to organise and professionalise it in Nigeria. To this end, he arrived home in 1952 to establish, at 32, Africa’s first indigenous chartered accounting…
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Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru; Tax practitioner and accountant, Chairman of Nigeria’s Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS during President Obasanjo years. Ifueko was the first female professional staff hired by Arthur Andersen, a leading accounting firm in 1983, rising through the ranks to become the first female professional manager as well as the first female national partner. As…
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala; Economist, as cabinet minister belonged to the crop of energetic technocrats of President Obasanjo’s second term in her position as Nigeria’s finance minister. Before her appointment, Okonjo-Iweala was Vice-President of the World Bank. While in office, she headed a team of 13 other ministers largely responsible for fashioning the administration’s series of economic…
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Nenadi Esther Usman; Nigerian federal minister under President Obasanjo, who succeeded celebrated Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in the ministry of finance. Usman under Iweala was part of the brains of the economic reforms of Olusegun Obasanjo government. Her focus in the finance ministry as stated by her was to bring the effect of past reforms to the…
