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Tinubu Appoints KWASU Student to Serve on Presidential Committee

The university made this announcement via a tweet on the evening of October 12, Thursday.

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Olamide Obagbemileke, a student in the Department of Economics at Kwara State University (KWASU) currently in her 400-level, has been chosen to join the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms as a research assistant and analyst.

The university made this announcement via a tweet on the evening of October 12, Thursday.

The tweet stated: “Miss Obagbemileke received notice of her selection through a letter signed by the Policy and Research Analyst and Executive Assistant to the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, Bomate Ogaree-Lawson.”

Obagbemileke is the second undergraduate student to be appointed to the presidential committee since its inception. She will work alongside the committee for a duration of three months and assume the role of the committee’s student ambassador.

President Bola Tinubu inaugurated the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms on August 8, at the presidential villa in Abuja. The committee is headed by Taiwo Oyedele, and another member of the committee is Orire Agbaje, a 400-level economics student at the University of Ibadan.

The committee’s primary objective is to evaluate Nigeria’s fiscal and tax policies, providing recommendations for necessary reforms. It is expected that the committee will present its report to the president within a six-month timeframe.

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