President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as the minister of state for finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite<\/p>\n
Uzoka-Anite will now move to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, as the Minister of State, her third portfolio in the administration.<\/p>\n
President Tinubu has today conveyed the nomination of Oyedele to the Senate for confirmation in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.<\/p>\n
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\u2019s tax system.<\/p>\n
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Oyedele is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.<\/p>\n
Bayo Onanuga,
\nSpecial Adviser to the President,
\n(Information and Strategy)
\nMarch 3, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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