President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele, chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, as Minister of State for Finance.
The nomination was conveyed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, through a letter seeking confirmation, according to a statement issued on Tuesday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
Oyedele is expected to succeed Doris Uzoka-Anite, who has been redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and Planning as Minister of State — her third portfolio under the administration of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Describing the nominee as an economist, accountant and public policy expert, Onanuga said Oyedele obtained a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and later earned a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
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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 at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he joined in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader. He is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
In July 2023, President Tinubu appointed Oyedele to chair the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, tasked with overhauling Nigeria’s tax system.
Uzoka-Anite was initially appointed Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment in August 2023 before her redeployment to the finance ministry in November 2024.