President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr. Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite.
In a statement issued on Tuesday and signed by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, it was disclosed that Uzoka-Anite has been redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, where she will serve as Minister of State — marking her third portfolio in the current administration.
The statement also confirmed that President Tinubu formally transmitted Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
Until his nomination, Oyedele, who hails from Ikaram, Akoko in Ondo State, served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led efforts to overhaul Nigeria’s tax system.
The 50-year-old economist, accountant and public policy expert holds a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University. He has also completed executive programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oyedele spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), joining the firm in 2001 and rising to the position of Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader. He is currently a professor at Babcock University, Ogun State, and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.