By Ebiere Kekeboro
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka.
The President also redeployed Anite-Uzoka to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, marking her third ministerial portfolio under the current administration.
Tinubu conveyed Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday.
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 spearheaded efforts to overhaul Nigeria’s tax system as part of the administration’s broader fiscal reform agenda.
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert with over two decades of experience across the public and private sectors.
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.
Before his nomination, Oyedele spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he joined in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader, advising governments and multinational organisations on tax and fiscal policy matters.
In addition to his professional career, Oyedele is a professor at Babcock University and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
His nomination is expected to strengthen the administration’s fiscal reform drive, particularly in revenue mobilisation, tax administration and economic coordination, subject to Senate confirmation.