Ben Akabueze is a

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Chartered Accountant and the current

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of the Budget office for the

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. He served as the CEO of NAL Bank Plc (now

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) and was two terms Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget with the

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Education and personal life

Akabueze obtained a B.Sc in

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from the University of Lagos and a postgraduate degree in Business Administration and Management from the

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. He was the Pastor-in-charge of Lagos Province 39 of the

Redeemed Christian Church of God The Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG) is a Pentecostal megachurch and denomination founded in Lagos, Nigeria. The General overseer (most senior pastor) is Enoch Adeboye, ordained in 1981. The church in Lagos had an average church attendanc ...

till his appointment with the Federal Government and is married to Ngozi, the CEO of Foundation for Sapphire (a non profit organisation).

Career

Akabueze was elected the

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of NAL Bank Plc in 2000 a post he retained till its merger in 2005 to become Sterling Bank Plc. He was thereafter in 2007 appointed as the Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget by the Lagos State Government till 2015. In February 2016 he was appointed as Special Adviser to the President on National Planning and was made the Director General for Budget office in June. On 17 May 2020, President Muhammadu Buhari reappointed Akabueze as the Director General of Budget Office. Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), Fellow, Institute of Credit Administration (FCA) and Honorary Member, Chartered Institute of Bankers (CIBN) Ben Akabueze is also the head pastor of th
Kings Court
Parish of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).

Public speaking

As the director general of Nigeria's Debt Management Office he has engaged in public speaking at several events including

breakfast club where he spoke on ''budget and national strategy; leverage and synergy potentials'',

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's Nigeria Tax Breakfast seminar where he made a presentation on ''key objectives and expected impact of the FGN 2021 Budget'' making a case for the need for increased domestic revenue by state governments and other events where he continues to advocate for increased domestic revenue generation and more efficient management of allocated revenue.

Legal issues

In October 2022, a retired staff of the Budget Office of the Federation, Bilkisu Sannusi accused Ben Akabueze, of abuse of power in a suit filed at the National Industrial Court of Nigeria. She alleged that Akabueze, the Director-General of the Budget Office of the Federation in collaboration with officials of the Finance Ministry and the Head of Service of the Federation had removed her name from payment vouchers, due to her refusal to compromise on the manipulation of budget proposals by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDA).

References

External links

* https://rccgtkclagos.com/our-head-pastor/ *https://www.budgetoffice.gov.ng/ *https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSrXzeLvGfk {{DEFAULTSORT:Akabueze, Ben University of Lagos alumni 21st-century Nigerian economists Nigerian business executives Living people Year of birth missing (living people)