Tinubu Nominates Taiwo 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 in a cabinet reshuffle.
Anite-Uzoka is set to move to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State — marking her third portfolio within the current administration.
The President formally transmitted Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
Before his nomination, Oyedele served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he played a central role in driving sweeping reforms aimed at overhauling Nigeria’s tax framework and strengthening fiscal governance.
Oyedele, a native of Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert with over two decades of professional experience. He earned a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and later obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
He has also completed executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oyedele spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), joining in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader, where he advised governments and multinational corporations on tax strategy and fiscal reforms.
In academia, he serves as a professor at Babcock University and as a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.
If confirmed by the Senate, Oyedele is expected to bring his extensive expertise in fiscal policy and taxation to the Ministry of Finance at a time when the administration is pursuing wide-ranging economic reforms.
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