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Presidency Confirms Zacch Adedeji’s Appointment as FIRS Boss

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September 14, 2023
Zacch Adelabu Adedeji
Zacch Adelabu Adedeji

Presidency Confirms Zacch Adedeji’s Appointment as FIRS Boss

President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Zacch Adelabu Adedeji as the new Acting Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).

The President in a statement by his spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, directed the erstwhile FIRS Chairman, Mr. Muhammad Nami, to proceed on a three-month of pre-retirement leave, as provided for by Public Service Rule (PSR) 120243, with immediate effect, leading to his eventual retirement from service on December 8, 2023.

“Hon. Zacch Adedeji is hereby appointed in acting capacity for a 90-day period before his subsequent confirmation as the substantive Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service for a term of four (4) years in the first instance.

“By these directives of the President, the new appointment takes immediate effect,” the statement read in part.

Mr Adedeji, 45, is a chartered accountant and he is presently the Special Adviser to the President on Revenue.

Adedeji was in 2021 appointed the Executive Secretary of the National Sugar Development Council (NSDC) by President Muhammadu Buhari.

He served as Commissioner for Finance between 2011 and 2015 when the Late Abiola Ajimobi was governor of Oyo state.

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He is a First Class graduate of Management and Accounting from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun state. He later bagged a Masters of Science degree in Accounting from the same University. He was also at the famous Harvard Kennedy School of Government in the United States of America for an Executive Course in Economic Development.

He held a number of senior management positions while working at the Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), a famous American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, United states of America with branches across several countries. He was General Accounting and Stewardship Manager between January 2004 and May 2006.

He later rose to the position of Corporate Finance Manager (West Africa) overseeing Treasury, Corporate/Affiliate Accounting, AP &Tax at the Procter and Gamble between August 2007 and May 2011.

Mr. Adedeji, a Fellow of Chartered Accountant (FCA) is also a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and member, Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN).

He has attended trainings and participated in several executive programmes centered on leadership, capacity building and development, finance and accounting, policy, administration and stewardship in the United States of America, Philippines, South Africa, Belgium and Switzerland.

Mr. Zacch Adedeji, who hails from Ogbomosho, Oyo state, also once served as the Chairman, Governing Board of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University Teaching Hospital, Bauchi state.

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