Tinubu urges Senate to confirm Oyedele as minister, Abe as NUPRC chairman, others
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally requested the Senate to screen and confirm a tax policy expert, Taiwo Oyedele, as Minister of State for Finance. The request was contained in
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has formally requested the Senate to screen and confirm a tax policy expert, Taiwo Oyedele, as Minister of State for Finance.
The request was contained in a letter read during plenary on Tuesday by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
According to the letter, Oyedele’s nomination is intended to replace Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite in the Ministry of Finance.
Before his nomination, Oyedele served as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he spearheaded initiatives aimed at restructuring Nigeria’s tax framework and improving government revenue generation.
The 50-year-old economist, accountant, and public policy expert spent 22 years with global consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, rising to the position of Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
He obtained a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and later earned a Bachelor’s degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
He has also attended executive education programmes at institutions such as the London School of Economics, Yale University, Harvard Kennedy School, and the Gordon Institute of Business Science.
Oyedele currently serves as a professor at Babcock University and is also a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
In a separate communication, President Tinubu also asked the Senate to consider and confirm Senator Magnus Abe as Chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.
The President further nominated Engineer Paul Yaro Jezhi, a former chairman of the Trade Union Congress in Kaduna State, and Mr. Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director at the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources, as non-executive commissioners of the commission.
After the letter was read, Senate President Akpabio referred the nominations to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream for screening and further legislative action.
