BREAKING: Tinubu nominates Oyedele as minister of state for finance
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka. The President has also redeployed Anite-Uzoka to the Ministry of Budget
- …Anite-Uzoka moves to Budget and National Planning
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka.
The President has also redeployed Anite-Uzoka to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, marking her third ministerial portfolio under the current administration.
Tinubu conveyed Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday.
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, where he led the overhaul of Nigeria’s tax system as part of the administration’s broader fiscal reform agenda.
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert with over two decades of experience spanning the public and private sectors.
He holds a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
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He has also completed executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Before his appointment, Oyedele spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he joined in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader, playing a key role in advising governments and multinational organisations on tax and fiscal policy matters.
In addition to his professional career, Oyedele is a professor at Babcock University, Ogun State, and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
His nomination is expected to further strengthen the administration’s fiscal reform drive, particularly in the areas of revenue mobilisation, tax administration, and economic coordination, subject to Senate confirmation.
