FIRS

MUHAMMAD NAMI

The Executive Chairman

Mr Muhammad, is a well-trained Tax, Accounting and Management Professional with highly rated qualifications and professional practicing licences from relevant professional bodies; has almost three (3) decades of practical working experience in Auditing, Tax Management and Advisory and Management Services to clients in the Banking, Manufacturing Services and Public Sectors as well as Non- Profit organizations.

He is an expert in rendering advisory support services to investors in respect of new businesses. He has also continuously rendered outsourced services to clients in both trading, service and manufacturing sectors of our economy.

Mr Muhammad Nami attended Bayero University, Kano and Ahmadu Bello University where he obtained a Bachelor Degree in Sociology (1991) and a Masters of Business Administration (2004) respectively.

He is a Fellow of Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, Chartered Institute of Forensic and Investigation Professionals of Nigeria, Institute of Debt Recovery Practitioners of Nigeria and Associate Member of Nigerian Institute of Management (Chartered) and Association of National Accountants of Nigeria.

He started his career with PKF in 1993 and rose to the position of a Senior Consultant in charge of Tax management and advisory services. He was also the Managing Consultant of Manam Professional Services (Chartered Tax Practices and Advisers) based in Kaduna, Abuja and Minna from October, 2018 to December, 2019.

Mr Muhammad also served on many companies’ Board and Statutory Board Audit Committees. He was appointed as a member, Presidential Committee on Audit of Recovered Stolen Assets in November, 2017 by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The President appointed him as the Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on 9th December, 2019. In addition, Mr Nami is also the Chairman, Joint Tax Board (JTB) and Chairman of African Tax Administrators Forum (ATAF). These added feathers confer on him the enviable responsibility of contributing to the economic growth and development of the continent of Africa.

Mr Muhammad Nami has since proved bookmakers right that he is more than equal to the task. The reforms he is implementing at FIRS attest to his dexterity, visionary leadership and patriotism.

He is happily married with children.