Ituah Olajide Ighodalo

Kemi Ajumobi

January 20, 2026

Ituah Olajide Ighodalo
Deputy Chairman, SIAO

There are people who are graced to create a blend of professionalism, faith and compassion. When it comes to work, they give their best, when it comes to their faith, they profess and show whose side they are, and when it comes to being humane, they fit in too. He is Ituah Olajide Ighodalo.

Ituah is the Deputy Chairman of SIAO, an independent Nigerian professional services firm, providing audit and assurance, accounting, tax, international financial reporting standards advisory, human resource, and financial advisory services.

He is Pastor-In-Charge of Trinity House Church, a non-denominational, free flow Christian worship centre powered with a vision to build leaders and destiny achievers.

Olajide is also a chartered accountant and a social reformer. He obtained a B.Sc combined honours degree in Economics and Accounting in 1982 from the University of Hull, England, qualified as a Chartered Accountant in July 1986 and attended a Business Management Course at the Harvard Business School, Boston in 2011.

Ituah is big on service to humanity but is also able to navigate multifaceted financial terrains with assiduousness, combining effortlessly his devotion to inspiring lives. So, if you call him a beacon of courage and leadership, you have spoken well. His persona and unpretentious care for people endears him to numerous hearts. Olajide is graced to brighten even the murkiest moments.

There is more to him than his profession as a chartered accountant and his decision to be a faith leader.  He lends his wisdom and depth as member of boards that include FAMAD Nig. Plc., Elizabeth R, Trinicorp, Tricontract, Capital Gate, Valency Agro Allied Ltd., The HUB Limited, Trinity Leadership School. He also sits on the Pastor E.A Adeboye Chair of Mathematics Board of UNILAG, and Chairs the Christopher Kolade Professorial Chair of the Lagos Business School, Celebr8 Music Festival, Vivian Fowler Memorial Governing Council, and several charitable organisations and NGOs like the Ibidunni Ighodalo Foundation among others.

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

Whether on his ‘As You Rise’ platform,  or ‘Command The Day prayers’, or as Publisher/Editor-in-Chief of the TIMELESS Media Group or as Chairman/Founder of Africa Leadership Group (ALG) and several other means of expression, Olajide consistently inspires hope, encourages you to embrace your capabilities and believe in the greatness of your nation, while also showing that indeed, your positive aspirations are valid and that you can strike a balance between being professional, being humane and blessing humanity.