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New ICAN President: Hajiya Queensley Sofuratu Seghosime, FCA, mni, M.Sc
She was invested as the 62nd President of ICAN on Tuesday June 2, 2026 at the ICAN Council Chambers, Victoria Island, Lagos. She took over from the 61st President, Mallam Haruna Yahaya, FCA.
Queensley Sofuratu Seghosime, mni, M.Sc, FCA is a
Distinguished tax administrator from Edo State. She has over 26 years in senior positions at Federal Inland Revenue Service, now Nigerian Revenue Service. Last served as Coordinating Director for Compliance and Enforcement. She represented Nigeria at OECD and Commonwealth Association of Tax Administrators. She currently runs Quebaan Professional Services, an advisory firm covering tax, governance, audit, and dispute resolution.
Her 9-Point Agenda “WE ARE ICAN”
Unveiled at inauguration, focused on making ICAN globally competitive:
1. Member value & welfare: “Membership of ICAN must be both prestigious and beneficial”. Strengthen engagement, partnership, professional mobility, recognition + higher development opportunities.
2. Ethics & integrity: Integrity as foundation. Strengthen ethical compliance, professional discipline, quality assurance, continuous ethics education.
3. Accountability index + young accountants: Build ICAN’s accountability index and education for young accountants.
4. Digital transformation: Reinvent profession through AI, data analytics, emerging tech. Modernize systems so ICAN stays at the forefront of innovation.
5. Governance & operational excellence: Data-driven decision making, improved performance management, enhanced service delivery. “A great vision requires a great institution”.
6. *Global relevance*: Transform ICAN from “respected but Nigeria-centric credentialing body into a globally competitive force”
7. Economic leadership: Charged accountants to “lead change” not just respond. “We are participants. We are partners. We are guardians of the system that creates confidence, attracts investment”.
8. Varsity collaboration: Pushing stronger collaboration between professional bodies and tertiary institutions. 151+ tertiary institutions now run ICAN-accredited accounting programmes.
9. National development: Position ICAN as national asset for sustainable growth, fiscal resilience, investment, governance.
She took over as AI, automation, fintech reshape commerce. Faces “existential challenge of rapid transformation or imminent obsolescence”.
Ayoade Davidson Ojeniyi FCA 13 06 2026.
SB E-news.
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