Ekiti State Governor, Biodun Oyebanji, has renewed the appointment of Olaniran Olatona as Executive Chairman of the Ekiti State Internal Revenue Service (EKSIRS) for another four-year term.
The reappointment takes effect from November 1, 2026, and will be forwarded to the Ekiti State House of Assembly for confirmation. Olatona, an indigene of Okemesi-Ekiti and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN), was first appointed in November 2022.
According to the state government, his first tenure recorded more than 60 per cent growth in the state’s Internally Generated Revenue, a development said to have strengthened the government’s capacity to finance public services and development projects.
In a related development, Governor Oyebanji has appointed a former Commissioner for Finance, Ishola Akingbade, as Chairman of the Ekiti State Security Trust Fund, with immediate effect.
Akingbade, who hails from Ilukuno-Ekiti in Ijero Local Government Area, is a chartered accountant and fellow of ICAN and the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He also holds a Master of Business Administration in Financial Management and has decades of experience in public finance and administration.
