President Bola Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele, Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, as the Minister of State for Finance.
Oyedele is expected to take over from Doris Uzoka-Anite, who is to move to the ministry of budget and planning — her third portfolio in Tinubu’s administration.
In a statement on Tuesday, Bayo Onanuga, special adviser to the president on information and strategy, said Tinubu sent a letter to the Senate President Godswill Akpabio, conveying Oyedele’s nomination and requesting the senate’s confirmation.
“Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert,” the presidential spokesperson said
“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.”
Onanuga said Oyedele is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun state and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
Oyedele was appointed as chairman of the presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms in July 2023 to lead the overhaul of Nigeria’s tax system.
In August 2023, Tinubu named Uzika-Anite the minister of industry, trade and investment, before redeploying her to serve as minister of state for finance in November 2024.
