Wednesday, March, 4 2026 - President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele as the Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite.
Uzoka-Anite will now move to the Ministry of Budget and
National Planning, as the Minister of State, her third portfolio in the
administration.
President Tinubu nominates Tax reforms committee chairman,
Taiwo Oyedele, as Minister of State for Finance
President Tinubu conveyed the nomination of Oyedele to the
Senate for confirmation in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
Until President Tinubu nominated him as a minister, Oyedele
from Ikaram, Akoko, Ondo State, was the chairman of the Presidential Committee
on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which overhauled Nigeria’s tax system.
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy
expert.
He attended Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a
Higher National Diploma (HND) in accountancy and finance. He attended Oxford
Brookes University and earned a BSc in applied accounting.
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.
Oyedele spent 22 years of his working career at PwC, joining
in 2001 and rising to become the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
Oyedele is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun
State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
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