Tinubu Names Taiwo Oyedele Minister of State for Finance

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

This was disclosed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy.

Onanuga also said Uzoka-Anite will now move to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, as the Minister of State—her third portfolio in the administration.

The statement noted that President Tinubu has conveyed the nomination of Oyedele to the Senate for confirmation in a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

Until his nomination, 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 later earned a BSc in applied accounting from Oxford Brookes University.

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 career at PwC, joining in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.

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