President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, as the new Minister of State for Finance.
The nomination was disclosed in a statement issued by the presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, who confirmed that Oyedele will replace Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka in the Ministry of Finance.
Anite-Uzoka has been redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, marking her third ministerial assignment under the current administration.
According to the statement, President Tinubu has forwarded a formal request to the Senate seeking confirmation of Oyedele’s appointment.
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert with over two decades of professional experience. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and 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 PwC, where he rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader after joining the firm in 2001.
He currently serves as a professor at Babcock University and as a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.
