By Yakubu LAAH InvestAdvocate
Lagos (INVESTADVOCATE)-Newly listed Computer Warehouse Group Plc (CWG) on Monday said it has appointed Emmanual Itoya Ijewere as a new director of the company.
The firm in a notice to the Nigerian stock exchange (NSE) in Lagos Nigeria said Ijewere a chartered accountant and a tax consultant was born on October 30, 1946.
According to CWG, Ijewere started his professional career with Coopers & Lybrand (Chartered Accountants) London 1965 – 1972 before partnering with D.O Dafinone & Co. (Chartered Accountants) – 1972 – 1979. He later became the group CEO, Messrs Ijewere & Co (Chartered Accountants).
The ICT sector firm says Ijewere has headed the directorship of several organisations among which are: Best Food Global (Nig.) Ltd – chairman, Apel Capital & Trust Ltd-chairman, Drum Resources (Nig.) Ltd – chairman, Anchoria Investment & Securities Ltd – director, Pinehill Leasing Co. Ltd – director, Rosaab International (Ghana) Ltd -director among other organisations.
The company said his professional membership ranges from: the past president of the institute of chartered accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), past president – accounting bodies of West Africa (ABWA), past president – institute of directors (IoD), past national president Nigerian red cross society (NRCS), chairman – West African sub-region (3) of international federation of the red cross and red crescent societies and pioneer vice president, chartered institute of taxation (CITN).
Ijewere was once the chairman, modified value added tax committee; the committee that midwifed VAT in Nigeria, chairman, agriculture and food security commission (NESG), chairman, community of agricultural stakeholders of Nigeria (CASON), chairman, extractive industries – sub-committee of the national council on privatisation among other many national assignments.
