Orire Agbaje Biography: Age, School, Family, Social Media, & Networth

On Tuesday, August 8, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms at the Presidential Villa. The committee, which comprises a series of tax experts and some major private sector players, was joined by a young undergraduate, Miss Orire Agbaje, from one of the prestigious universities in the country. Miss Agbaje will join other experts to help initiate tax policies to boost revenue for Nigeria.

Miss Agbaje who is from Ogun State, South-western part of Nigeria at a young age, is already a tax genius and scholar of repute. She is currently the President of the Nigerian Universities Tax Club and holds an Association of Accounting Technicians (AAT) qualification. According to her Linkedin profile, she’s one of the selected candidates for the 2023 Nigeria Higher Education Foundation (NHEF) Scholars Programme.

In another Linkedin post, Miss Agbaje revealed why she picked an interest in accounting and disclosed her love and passion for “crunching digits.

The energetic and hardworking Orire Agbaje is a final year student at the University of Ibadan studying Economics majoring in International and Monetary Economics.

Despite her status, Agbaje and other tax experts, and key private sector stakeholders have been saddled with the responsibility of harmonising taxes in the country to boost revenue.

Below are some of the interesting facts about Orire Agbaje

• Orire Agbaje is a 400 level Economics student at the University of Ibadan.
• She has been appointed to the presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms by President Bola Tinubu.
• Agbaje is the president of The Tax Club, University of Ibadan, and the Nigerian Universities Tax Club.
• She is studying Economics with a major in International and Monetary Economics.
• Agbaje has an interest in corporate finance and taxation and is pursuing studies in Accounting (ICAN).
• Aside from academics, she is actively involved in sports and volunteering.

Orire Agbaje Undergraduate work experience

Although Orire Agbaje is still an undergraduate, she had been involved in various volunteer work both within and outside the university, as well as in corporate organizations.

From March 2020 to March 2021, she became the director of sponsorship at Noble Airstar Charity Foundation. Thereafter, she took up a part-time role as a campus ambassador at EduBridge Academy for almost two years.

Subsequently, she obtained a 4-month internship at SISU Africa and later assumed the role of Administrative assistant at WorldPRMedia Limited where she worked for over two years.

Thereafter she became the Senior Financial Analyst, Public relations officer and later Head of Masterclass at the Student Finance Club at the University of Ibadan where she currently studies.

She is currently a Fellow at Africans Who Invest Corporation and is also the Strategy & Transactions lead at Sierra Partners Limited.

Asides from these positions, she is the President of the Tax Club at UI and SEIH.