President Bola Tinubu has appointed a 400-level Economics student of the University of Ibadan (UI), Orire Agbaje, as a member of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms.
Agbaje is the President of The Tax Club, University of Ibadan (UI), and also the President of the Nigerian Universities Tax Club.
In her LinkedIn profile, Agbaje describes herself as “assertive and hardworking”.
Her profile reads: “Presently, I’m an undergraduate student of the University of Ibadan reading Economics; I major in International and Monetary Economics.
“My love for crunching digits made me take up Accounting (ICAN) and further exposed me to Corporate finance and taxation which I’m learning. Academics aside, I’m into Sports and volunteering.
“I like being productive in whatever I engage in. I also have great leadership and interpersonal skills.”
The committee, which comprises experts from both the private and public sectors, was inaugurated by Tinubu on Tuesday.
The committee, headed by a tax and fiscal policy expert, Taiwo Oyedele, is responsible for various aspects of tax law reforms, fiscal policy design and coordination, harmonisation of taxes, and revenue administration.
