On Tuesday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inaugurated the presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms and appointed Orire Agbaje, a 400-level Economics student of the University of Ibadan, to the committee.
Agbaje has a strong interest in tax policy and will be working closely with Taiwo Oyedele Oyedele, a former Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader at PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC), who was named chairman of the committee.
She is the President of the Nigerian Universities Tax Club and holds an Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) qualification.
The undergraduate was one of the few talented young Nigerians selected for the 2023 Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) Scholars Programme.
In her LinkedIn bio, Agbaje says that her love for “crunching digits†led her to take up accounting and taxation.
Agabje is passionate about using her skills to make a difference and would see the Presidential Committee on Tax Reforms as an opportunity to add to her knowledge.
The committee’s mandate is to address the challenges faced by Nigeria in the areas of fiscal governance, tax reforms, and growth facilitation.
It has a one-year deadline to deliver a schedule of quick reforms that can be implemented within 30 days.