President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka in a fresh cabinet reshuffle. 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.
The President conveyed Oyedele's nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
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 efforts to overhaul Nigeria’s tax system.
Oyedele, 50, is widely regarded as an economist, accountant and public policy expert with extensive experience in fiscal reform and taxation.
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, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oyedele spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, joining the firm in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
Beyond his professional career, he is a professor at Babcock University and serves as a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.