Ifueko omoigui okauru biography channel
Lecture delivered by Mrs. Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru; Managing Partner, Compliance Professionals PLC, at the NES #30 Public Lecture and Founders'..
Born on December 10, , Omoigui Okauru attended Queen's College, Yaba and Federal Government College, Warri for her secondary school education and.Ifueko OMOIGUI-OKAURU
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 federal tax manager, she introduced a new system of receiving and remitting taxes through automation. Omogui shifted emphasis from income to consumption taxes effectively slamming indirect taxes on Nigerians[i].
Childhood
Ifueko is the third child of a family consisting of seven, including her parents who were civil servants.
A former chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service, Mrs Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, talks about her childhood and career with ALEXANDER OKERE.
She got a scholarship from primary five which continued through her secondary school. As the only girl of five children she never got to be treated differently from her four brothers. And parents made effort to encourage positive attributes for a child which was