Ifueko omoigui okauru biography of williams

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 , 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.

Ifueko omoigui okauru biography of williams family

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 not