Dr. Emmanuel Itoya Ijewere was born on October 30, 1946 and married with children. He is one of Nigeria’s most respected Accountants/Tax Consultants.
He is the chairman in the following companies:
- Best Foods Group
- Apel Capital & Trust Limited
- Drum Resources (Nigeria) Limited,
- Citadel Business School.
- Cold Chain Supply Systems Limited
- Globe Crest (VFM) Nigeria Limited
He is a director in the following companies:
- Computer Warehouse Group Plc
- Pinehill Leasing Co. Limited
- Rosaab International Limited
He is an Independent Director of Nova Merchant Bank Limited.
- He is past President of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). He is past President – Accounting Bodies of West Africa (ABWA). He is past President of Institute of Directors Nigeria (IoD). He is past National President, Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS). He was Chairman – West African Sub-Region of International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. He was Pioneer Vice-President, Chartered Institute of Taxation (CITN).
- He was Chairman, Value Added Tax Committee. The Committee that created VAT in Nigeria. He was Chairman, Agriculture and Food Security Commission, (NESG). He was Chairman, Community of Agricultural Stakeholders of Nigeria (CASON). He was Chairman, Extractive Industries – Sub-Committee of National Council on Privatization. He was member, Technical Committee on Privatization of Federal Government Companies and Parastatals. He was member, Honourary International Investment Council (under Barones Lynda Chalker). He was member, Agricultural Transformation Implementation Council (ATIC) under past President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan Chairmanship. He served as Resource person on Agriculture to the Buhari Transition Committee. He was Past PTA Chairman, Lagos State Model College, Badore. He was Chairman, Longman Nigeria Plc (Book Publishing) now Learn Africa Plc.
- He is currently the President of Nigerian Agribusiness Group (NABG), the umbrella body for Agribusiness in Nigeria. NABG is an organized private sector platform for all agriculture and agribusiness associations in Nigeria providing an advisory platform for government policies in food security, economic diversification and bilateral agricultural relations and offer a unified voice to address and proffer solution options to resolve systemic issues and constraints facing agribusinesses in Nigeria.
