President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has put forward Mr. Taiwo Oyedele‘s name for the position of Minister of State for Finance, as Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite is stepping aside from the role.
Uzoka-Anite will now move to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, as the Minister of State, her third portfolio in the administration.
President Tinubu conveyed the nomination of Oyedele to the Senate for confirmation in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, on Tuesday, 3 March 2026, thegazellenews.com reports.
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’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.
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