BREAKING: Tinubu appoints Taiwo Oyedele as Minister

Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite.

The development was disclosed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy. According to the statement, Uzoka-Anite has been redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State — her third portfolio in the current administration.

President Tinubu has also forwarded Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

Before his nomination, Oyedele, a native of Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he spearheaded significant reforms of Nigeria’s tax system.

The 50-year-old economist, accountant, and public policy expert holds a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.

He has also completed executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.

Oyedele spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he joined in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.

He currently serves as a professor at Babcock University and is a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.