Achieving Excellence in Governance

Achieving Excellence in Governance 

🎯 “ A government business is making his people happy” - Sheikh Al Maktoum - 5:03

🎯 Achieving excellence in governance is taking governance to a degree of best practice in the best possible environment in the best possible time - 5:49

🎯 Governance does not happen in a vacuum or all by itself, the people who govern the people come out of the people and most of the time, either by coercion or by assertion, the person accept the people who govern them even if it’s only temporarily - 9:24

🎯 People usually go in the direction in which they are persuaded or directed to go - 14:17

🎯 To get the people to work with government, you need 4 things; information, education and enlightenment, benefits, consequences - 15:21

🎯 The church is largely responsible for where Nigeria is today and there’s many reasons for that - 16:45

🎯 The role that the church has to play in governance is; - 16-56

- Hear from God and tell the government what God is saying by way of advice. 

- The church is the grooming ground for capacity for leadership 

- Support government in areas why government is not able to do everything 

- Speak truth to power -criticize and tell governments when it has gone wrong/commend government when they have done right

🎯  - To establish an excellent government, we need a hard core of people who understand what good governance is and they need to demonstrate boldness, commitment, unity and almost new determined to lose their life for this - 22:58

Ituah Ighodalo is a Pastor, an Accountant, a Thinker, a Social Reformer and a Writer. He attended the prestigious Kings College Lagos, the International School University of Ibadan, and obtained a B.Sc combined honors degree in Economics and Accounting in 1982 from the University of Hull, England. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in July 1986 and attended a Business Management Course at the Harvard Business School, Boston in 2011. 

He commenced his professional career in September, 1982 at Pricewaters House now Price Waterhouse Coopers (PWC) and later founded Ighodalo & Co., a professional public Accounting firm in January 1987. In October 2004, Ighodalo & Co. merged with 3 other firms to form SIAO/RSM Nigeria becoming arguably the 5th largest accounting practice in Nigeria, today.  

Pastor Ituah is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation Nigeria; he is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management, a Member of the American Society of Industrial Security and a member of the American Institute of Management.

He has also sat on various government panels’ (State and Federal), and has been an adviser/consultant to government at different levels since 1991. He is on the Council of the Nigerian British Chamber of Commerce (NBCC), the Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA), and he is on the Board of the National Council on Privatization (NCP/BPE). 

He is the Pastor-in-Charge of Trinity House, a non-denominational free flowing International Christian Worship Center.

He was married to the late Ibidunni Ituah Ighodalo and they were blessed with two wonderful children