Taxation is our civic duty
Club Birth
The need for a tax advocacy platform at the University of Ibadan informed the creation of the Club in the last quarter of 2016 with eight founding members. The Club seeks primarily to educate and sensitize students, young business owners, and small and medium enterprises on the operational aspect of taxation as a regulatory framework.
Club Target Audience
Students of the University of Ibadan, other University Students, and the Society at Large.
The students of the University of Ibadan forms the core of our primary target audience. We believe that arming the students with the knowledge of taxation and raising tax awareness as much as we can within our local community will go a long way in influencing a tax conscious society.
We also believe that other university students and the society at large can get benefits from our primary objective which is to create tax awareness, by simplifying complex areas of tax on our social media pages so that "the ordinary man is tax aware".
Club Incubation & Growth
TTC UI started in November, 2016 and has since grown rapidly under the mentorship of Prof. Abiola Sanni, Dr Peter Oniemola and Miss Adure Uzo-Peters, Our Staff Advisers. The Club is constituted by, but not limited to, students from the Faculties of Law and The Social Sciences, Technology and the School of Economics of the University of Ibadan.
Over the course of its first few months, the Club have taken giant strides in terms of a full registration, membership growth, Club constitution, recognition with relevant professional bodies and agencies, formal launching of The University of Ibadan Tax Workshop, remarkable events amongst others.
In May 2017, the Club was represented by ten of its members at the Annual Tax Conference 2017 in Abeokuta, Nigeria and also participated in The Youth Tax Summit organized by the Tax Club, University Of Lagos where it emerged third at the Inter University Competition.
Since its inception, the club has been represented in various tax conferences including but not limited to ; NTRN (Nigerian Tax Research Network) Annual Tax Conference, CITN Annual Tax Conference, Tax Summit amongst others.
About the Founder
Ogochukwu Scholastica Akaeze
Founder
Ogochukwu Scholastica Akaeze is an innovative lawyer with interest in commercial law, tax, energy and intellectual property law. She was the founding president of the Tax Club, University of Ibadan.
She is currently working at Arya cares, a leading law firm in Nigeria. Ogochukwu is also a certified mediator and conciliator and an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators.
Ogochukwu’s passion for taxation was triggered by the need to diversify the Nigerian economy and the burgeoning responsibilities of lawyers in ensuring effective implementation of Nigeria’s tax laws.
Education
B.L, The Nigerian Law School Yola Campus ( First Class Honours)
LL.B, University of Ibadan (First Class Honours)
Awards
Recipient, Professor CS Ola Prize for 2018 Best Graduating Student in the Faculty of Law, University of Ibadan.
Recipient, Director-General’s Prize for First Class student issued by the Nigerian Law School.
Professional Membership
The Nigerian Bar Association.
The Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators.