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Professor Uwalomwa Uwuigbe is currently a faculty member at the Department of Accounting University Nizwa. He was the former Dean of the College of Management and Social Sciences at Covenant University (2018 - February 2022) and the former Head of the Accounting Department at Covenant University (2014 - 2016) in Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor of Accounting Degree in Accounting (B.Sc Accounting 1998), a Master in Business Administration Degree (MBA, 2003), a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD in Accounting, 2011) and a Master of Science Degree (MSc Accounting, 2012). As part of his professional qualifications, Uwalomwa Uwuigbe is an Associate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Taxation (ACTI) and an Associate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management(Chartered) (AMNIM). Similarly, he is a certified Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) and an Associate of Cost and Management Accountants (ACMA) with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) United Kingdom. He is a consultant to GIZ on the Good Financial Governance in Africa Programme, sponsored by the German Development Cooperation. He has successfully supervised over 10 Master's degree students and 9 PhD students in Accounting. Professor Uwalomwa Uwuigbe is the first editor-in-chief of the African Multidisciplinary Tax Journal.

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Kemi began her professional journey with KPMG Nigeria, earning her qualification as a Chartered Accountant from the 'Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria' in 1992. Subsequently, she transitioned to Deloitte Nigeria before venturing into the private sector, where she assumed various senior management positions. In 2012, she moved to academia after completing her PhD at the Leicester Business School, De Montfort University. She has since held positions at various universities, such as the University of Nottingham, serving as an Associate Professor, and at SOAS University of London, where she became the University's inaugural Professor of Accounting in its century-long history. Currently, she holds the position of Professor of Accounting at Aston University, actively contributing to the advancement of research activities within the accounting department. Throughout her academic journey, Professor Yekini has assumed numerous leadership roles.

Kemi's extensive industry experience has significantly influenced her research interests in the field of accounting. Primarily, her interests revolve around sustainability accounting and transparency in corporate disclosure practices. Her research findings have been published in esteemed international journals, furthering sustainability and corporate accountability discourse. Kemi engages in reviewing high-impact academic journals and has been actively involved in editorial positions, including serving as an editorial board member for various esteemed national and international academic journals. For more details, please visit: https://research.aston.ac.uk/en/persons/cecilia-olukemi-yekini

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Professor Olowolaju is a Professor of Accounting at the Federal University of Technology, Akure. He is a Fellow of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Associate member of Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of United Kingdom. He holds a Degree in Accountancy from University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Master in Business Administration, M.Sc and PhD in Technology Management (Industrial Option) from Obafemi Awolowo Univeristy, Ile-Ife.

Professor Olowolaju has about two decades of industrial experience as Accountant at Obafemi Awolowo University Ile Ife, Divisional Manager at Odua Investment Company Ltd., Head of Operations and Group Managing Director at Old Ondo State Investment Holding Company Ltd. before Ekiti State was created. He has also been in academic for over two decades. He has served in Project Management Department, Head of Department of Accounting and currently the Head of Department of Financial Technology. Prof. Olowolaju has served as Chief Examiner for Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria for many years. He has also been on the Board of many companies. Prof. Olowolaju has served as Chief Examiner for Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria for many years. He was the Group Managing Director of Ondo State Investment and the Chairman Access Sharing Committee of Ondo and Ekiti State of Nigeria.

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Professor Rufus Ishola Akintoye is a Professor of Accounting and Strategic Financial Management, a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), a Fellow of the Nigerian Accounting Association, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), a Life member of Nigeria Economic Society, a Fellow of Nigeria Institute of Management (Chartered) and a Certified Forensic Examiner. He holds a BA (Accounting and Financial Management), BSc (Economics), MSc and MBA (Accounting & Finance), PhD (Financial Management) and PhD (Accounting).

Having worked for eighteen years in the private sector as Group Accountant, Webisco Group of Companies, Lagos, Nigeria, Senior Assistant Registrar(Finance), West African Examinations Council(WAEC), Manager/Assistant General Manager, Hillcrest Merchant Bank/Rainbow Home Savings & Loans Limited, Nigeria, Manager, Awoyinfa Obafunso & Co, Chartered Accountants, Partner, Taiwo Abimboye & Co. Chartered Accountants and Principal Partner of I. R. Akintoye & Co Chartered Accountants before moving to academic in the year 2000. He has served as Head of Department of Accounting, Acting Dean of Faculty, Director, Centre for Executive Development and Head of Business School in some Nigerian Universities. He was appointed in 2019 as an Adjunct Professor of Accounting & Strategic Financial Management at the CBN-CPP Centre of Excellence, University of Ibadan, Nigeria in addition to serving as an adjunct Professor of Accounting & Strategic Financial Management at the Department of Accounting, Faculty of Economics & Management Sciences, and the UI School of Business, University of Ibadan, Nigeria to date.

Professor Akintoye served as a Financial Consultant to the World Bank, a part of the team that worked on the Medium Term Expenditure framework (MTEF) currently being used for the budgetary processes by States and the Federal Government of Nigeria. He also worked as a Financial Consultant to Partnership for Child Development (PCD) of Imperial College, London and developed a Costing and Budgeting template for the School Feeding Program in Nigeria on behalf of the PCD. He was at various times Examiner and Chief Examiner to the Examinations of ICAN and CITN from 1989 to 2019. He was one of the pioneer Supervisors/Chief Examiners to the Multidisciplinary Case study of ICAN and at various times, Vice-Chairman(Examinations Committee), Chairman(Examinations Committee) and a Council member to ICAN and CITN. He has handled trainings on tax audit, investigations and forensic tax audit for the Federal Inland Revenue Service and some state internal revenue services to date.

He is a 2017 Merit Awardee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria(ICAN) and currently an External Examiner to some Federal, State and Private Universities in Nigeria and abroad; specifically to the University of Cape Coast-Ghana, Valley View University, Ghana and University of Professional Studies, Accra, Ghana. Professor Akintoye is currently a Federal Commissioner on the Nigeria Tax Appeal Tribunal, sitting in Abuja till date. He bagged the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants of London' African Academic Influencer' award in 2019 and became certified in November 2021 via National Universities Commission(NUC)/VICBHE as a 'Global Certified Higher Education Accreditor' by Global University Network for Innovation (Africa) and the African Quality Assurance Network. He is an alumni of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, Nigeria, University of Ibadan, Nigeria, University of Calabar, Nigeria, Delta State University, Nigeria, University of Education, Ghana, University of Sunderland, UK and University of Cape Town, South. He was inaugurated as a member of the Chartered Institute of Risk Management on May 11, 2023.

An International Scholar, he has over one hundred(100) publications, local and international to his credit, attended many local and international conferences and read many papers in the areas of Accounting, Strategic Financial Management, Taxation and Financial Economics. In addition to mentoring hundreds of undergraduate and postgraduate students at the Ogun State University (Now, Olabisi Onabanjo), Osun State University, Osogbo, Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, he has supervised and graduated 89 PhD, 46 MSc and 32 MBA candidates to date. Some of his supervisees and mentees are currently Professors and Associate Professors.

He has been part of the NUC Core Curriculum (CCMAS) Committee and assisted the Chairman of Administration & Management discipline from 2020 to 2023. His name eventually entered the NUC' Hall of Fame' in 2023 (Page 14 & 112)

He is an Editor to some prominent National and International journals and has been serving as member and Chairman on the Accreditation Team of the NUC from 2012 to date.

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Johnson Olanrewaju holds BSc. Accounting, MBA, M. Sc Accounting and Finance degrees. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Associates member of the Institute of Financial Accountants UK (IFA), and Institute of Public Accountants Australia (IPA). He is an alumnus of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, (LAUTECH) Ogbomosho, The University of Salford Manchester United Kingdom and Robert Kennedy College, Zürich, Switzerland.

Johnson Olanrewaju has acquired work experience from major sectors, including banking, manufacturing, oil and gas services, and public governance. He started his career as an accountant with Benkaof Beverages Limited, Nigeria in 1987. He joined the services of Nigeria Oyo State Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning in 1989 as Head Internal Audit. In 1991, moved to Thodel Savings and Loans Limited, Nigeria as Assistant Finance Manager. In 1994, he later resigned to join Duncan Savings and Loans Limited, a Financial Institution in Nigeria. In 1998, he moved to American Bureau of Shipping Europe Limited as Accountant for the West Africa operations, the position he occupied till 2012 when he moved to the United Kingdom.

In the United Kingdom, he worked briefly with Crownwise Consult Limited as an Accounting staff, with Barclays Bank Plc and Lloyds Bank Plc as agency staff. He is currently a Senior Partner and Director of High Glory Associates Limited, a Financial Engineering Firm in the UK. He is the Coordinator of the Global Initiative Centre office in London.

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Adegbemi Babatunde ONAKOYA is a Professor of Business and Applied Economics (Crescent University, Nigeria, 2016) and Professor of Development Economics (Babcock University, Nigeria, 2021). He holds a BSc in Economics, MBA in Marketing Management, MSc in Economics and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Business and Applied Economics.

He is a fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants and The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He is an internationally certified expert in quality systems management and business transformation. He has acquired working experience from the major sectors of the economy, including banking, manufacturing, oil and gas services, telecommunications, tertiary educational institutions and public governance. He was the Director General- Management and Budget and the Secretary to the Government of Ogun State, Nigeria. Professor Adegbemi Onakoya currently lectures Economics, Finance and Accounting at Babcock University, Nigeria. As of December 31, 2023, his 78 academic publications have been viewed 111,436 and downloaded 4,025 times in 175 countries & territories (http://babcockuni.academia.edu/adegbemionakoya). In the AD Scientific Index 2023, Professor Onakoya was ranked the 15th and 74th topmost researchers in the Economics & Econometrics and Accounting & Finance categories, respectively, in Africa (https://www.adscientificindex.com/onakoya

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Dr Adeyemi Alabi, PhD, ACA is a professional in accounting and finance with more than 10 years of cumulative experience in areas including financial management, financial systems, ERP implementation, financial reporting, corporate governance, business partnering and strategic financial management in multifaceted and multi-entity organizations.

He is an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) with professional certifications from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). Dr Alabi has a PhD in Accounting from Babcock University in Nigeria and Master’s degrees in FinTech and Accounting & Finance from the University of the West of England, UK.

Dr Alabi has extensive hands-on experience in designing, implementing and optimizing financial systems. As Multi-Entity Finance Lead, Dr Alabi spearheaded the implementation of QuickBooks Online ERP in 18 entities with 30% faster financial reporting. Previously, he implemented Tally ERP9 financial system, which resulted in 20% reduction in manual reporting errors.

Professional experience includes healthcare, real estate, construction, energy, marketing and consulting industries which enable him to have a wide view on the role of accounting information in financial decision-making and organisational success and management.

As a finance professional he has managed financial processes including financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, statutory compliance, audit relationships, financial control, cost efficiency and stakeholder relations. He has contributed to organisational performance through delivering tangible results such as over £120,000 in cost saving measures, 15% reduction in budget variance and 18% reduction in outstanding receivables.

In addition to technical skills in finance and accounting, Dr Alabi has shown considerable skills in financial system transformation, management of finance teams, training of system users during implementation, mentoring of finance professionals and assisting senior managers in decision-making through providing financial information.

The combination of scholarly achievement, professional skills in accounting and industry experience clearly fits into the aims and philosophy of the Centre.

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Olufemi Oguntade, PhD, FCA, FCTI has about 38 -year professional working experience as a Chartered Accountant and Tax Practitioner. He started his working career as a credit officer with United Bank for Africa. He has since distinguished himself as a brilliant and successful Accountant haven functioned variously as Chief Accountant and Finance Director in various sectors of the economy including Manufacturing, Oil & Gas and Agro Allied.

Olufemi Oguntade was the Managing Director/CEO of Portland Paints and Products Nigeria Plc, a leading paint manufacturing company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange and retired voluntarily in September 2015 to start his firm – O.M. Associates. He joined the Board of Portland Paints in June 2011 as the Deputy Managing Director. Prior to joining the Board of Portland Paints, he was the Executive Director/CFO of Nigerian German Chemicals Plc, a leading pharmaceutical company also quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

He is presently the Managing Partner of O.M. Associates, a consulting firm of Audit, Tax, Financial, and Management Services.

Olufemi Oguntade is an award-winning 1986 Accounting graduate of Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti, having won the Rector Award as the best graduating student. Holder of B.Sc. in Accounting from Oxford Brooks University, UK. He also have a master’s degree in business administration (MBA) from Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife and a D.Sc. in Accounting from Atlantic International University, USA. He is a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN). He is an alumnus of the prestigious IESE Business School, Barcelona, Spain (Developing Leadership Competencies Course), Wharton Business School, Philadelphia, USA (CFO becoming a Strategic Partner Course) and Lagos Business School (Advanced Management Program). He recently completed his PhD in accounting at Babcock University, having successfully defended his Thesis on the Assortment of the Disparate Economy for Revenue Optimization and Sustainable Infrastructure in Selected States in Nigeria.

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Dr. Temitope Mopelola Arasi is an accomplished C-suite finance executive, accountant and strategic business leader with over two decades of progressive experience in the Nigerian banking sector. Her career spans Oceanic Bank, Sterling Bank Plc and Unity Bank Plc.

She has provided transformational leadership across finance, taxation, regulatory compliance, corporate governance and enterprise strategy. She is a Fellow of ACCA and a member of ICAN, CITN and the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria.

Dr. Temitope Mopelola Arasi earned her PhD (Finance) from Babcock University. She holds a master’s degree in Professional Accountancy from the University of London and an MBA from the University of Ibadan Business School, complemented by executive training in Strategy Execution at London Business School. Her doctoral research examines financial inclusion and poverty incidence in selected African economies. She is especially committed to policy, strategy, innovation and end-to-end automation of business operations and processes.

She is recognized for translating complex financial and regulatory challenges into sustainable solutions while modernizing processes, strengthening governance and improving institutional efficiency. She is the current CFO of Nova Bank Ltd. Lagos.

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Dr. Chukwuma James Ucheagwu IS the Managing Director of Valmon Securities Limited, a leading stockbroking firm in Nigeria. He is also financial Analyst with over 20 years’ experience in developing tailored investment solutions for Corporates, High Net worth and Retail investors. Dr. Chukwuma James Ucheagwu has expertise in accounting, financial engineering, taxation, asset management, capital market analysis and clients’ advisory services.

He is also a graduate of Babcock University with a doctorate degree in accounting, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and Chartered Institute of Taxation, Nigeria. He also attended executive diploma programmes in pension management, risk management, corporate governance, and strategic management at Lagos Business School.