By Peter Omopo
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Doris Anite-Uzoka.
The President has forwarded Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
Following the reshuffle, Anite-Uzoka has been redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, marking her third portfolio under the current administration.
Before his nomination, Oyedele served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led efforts to overhaul Nigeria’s tax system.
Oyedele, an indigene of Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert. 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.
Oyedele spent 22 years at PwC, joining the firm in 2001 and rising to the position of Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
In addition to his professional career, he is a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
The nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.
