President Tinubu Swears In Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance

President Tinubu has inaugurated Taiwo Oyedele into the role of Minister of State for Finance.

The swearing-in took place briefly at the State House on Monday.

The Nigerian Senate, last week, confirmed the appointment of Taiwo Oyedele as a minister-designate under the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The Senate President, Senator Godswill Akpabio, announced the confirmation after lawmakers cleared the nominee through a voice vote at the Committee of the Whole.

President Tinubu had nominated Taiwo Oyedele as the minister of state for finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite.

Tinubu’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, confirmed the development in a statement issued to journalists.

Before his appointment as Minister, Oyedele from Ikaram, Akoko, Ondo State, was the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which overhauled Nigeria’s tax system.

Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert.

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.

Oyedele is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.