Professor Jane Ande

Professor Jane Ande (full name: Janet Oyemine Modupe Ande) is a Professor of Accounting, specialising in Environmental Accounting and Sustainability Reporting, Auditing and Management Information Systems, and a Fellow of the Association of National Accountants of Nigeria (ANAN). She is the first female Professor of Accounting in Nigeria and Africa, with 47 years of teaching and lecturing experience at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria; the University of Jos, Jos, Nigeria; and the University of Ghana, Ghana. She earned a BSc in Accounting in 1979 and also holds an MSc in Accounting and Finance and a PhD in Accounting.

At the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies (NIPSS), Kuru, Nigeria, she was Head of the Centre for Financial Economics, a Directing Staff (DS), and Head of Short Courses. She is currently a Visiting Professor.

She was the first female President of the African Accounting and Finance Association (AAFA), obtaining a World Bank Group grant for research initiatives in collaboration with the Pan African Federation of Accountants (PAFA). She was the first Editor of the AAFA Journal and Vice President at Large of the International Association for Accounting Education and Research (IAAER).

She occupied the first Professorial Chair in Accounting at the University of Ghana Business School, Legon, Ghana, sponsored by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ghana, and served as an External Examiner for 11 years. She is an International Faculty member of Haggai International for Advanced Leadership, USA. She was a consultant on a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) mapping survey of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria in collaboration with TVT Synergy, New York, USA. She was the guest speaker at the inauguration of Nigerians in Diaspora, New Jersey, USA, in 2010, and an External Examiner for the PhD in Accounting at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya.

At the University of Jos, she served as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences from 1993 to 1994, Head of the Department of Accounting and Management Sciences (now the Faculty of Management Sciences) from 1998 to 2004, and General Manager of Unijos Consultancy Ltd from 2007 to 2010. Her 2002 proposal, “Sustainability after Carnegie”, secured US$500,000 out of US$2 million to establish an Advancement Office. She has carried out SME research supported by a UniJos Senate Research grant, a Central Bank of Nigeria grant and the Industrial Training Fund (ITF).

She was the Principal Investigator of a Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) research grant on the Development of Methodology for Corporate Governance in Banks and a consultant on the panel recruiting staff for Centres of Excellence established by the Central Bank of Nigeria at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria; the University of Ibadan; and the University of Nigeria.

She served on National Universities Commission (NUC) accreditation, verification and visitation panels to universities from 1999 to 2026. She was Director General of the Nigerian College of Accountancy and Chairperson of ANAN’s Adhoc Committee on International Membership Drive/Education and Research Committee when the Association gained membership of the Association of Accountancy Bodies in West Africa (ABWA), the Pan African Federation of Accountants (PAFA) and the International Federation of Accountants (IFAC). As Director General, her proposal to ANAN led to the establishment of the ANAN Postgraduate Centre at the University of Jos. She is a member of the Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria Adoption Readiness Group on Sustainability Reporting Standards.

At NIPSS, Kuru, she organised Strategic Pension Fund Administration Courses (SPAC) in collaboration with the National Pension Commission (PenCom), Abuja, for Pension Desk Officers in ministries, departments, agencies and the private sector. With the endorsement of the Director General of NIPSS, a policy brief addressing pension challenges in Nigeria provided recommendations and implementation strategies that have been, and continue to be, used to address these challenges. One recommendation was for government to sell bonds to finance pension challenges involving delays in paying retirees, lack of enhancement, mortgages and shortfalls. In March 2026, she organised a Pension Clinic at NIPSS with PenCom in attendance.

She is now a retiree. She married Rev. Emmanuel Usman Ande, a retired banker and pastor, 47 years ago. She is a mother of four biological grown-up children, many extended children and grandchildren.