President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite.
Uzoka-Anite has been reassigned to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State — her third portfolio under the current administration.
The President conveyed Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
Until his nomination, Oyedele, an indigene of Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms. The committee was responsible for spearheading major reforms aimed at overhauling Nigeria’s tax system.
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert with over two decades of professional experience. He began his academic journey at Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance. He later earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
He also completed executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Professionally, Oyedele spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he joined in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
In addition to his policy and corporate roles, Oyedele is a professor at Babcock University and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
If confirmed by the Senate, Oyedele is expected to play a key role in advancing the administration’s fiscal and economic reform agenda.
