President Bola Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka.
The development was announced in a statement issued by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
As part of the cabinet adjustment, Tinubu redeployed Anite-Uzoka to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, marking her third ministerial assignment under the current administration.
In a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the President formally transmitted Oyedele’s nomination for Senate confirmation.
Until his nomination, Oyedele served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led efforts to restructure Nigeria’s tax framework and drive fiscal policy reforms.
A native of Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, Oyedele, 50, is an economist and accountant with more than two decades of professional experience spanning public policy, taxation, and financial advisory. 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, Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oyedele spent 22 years at PwC, joining the firm in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader. He currently serves as a professor at Babcock University and as a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
If confirmed by the Senate, Oyedele will assume office as Minister of State for Finance as the administration advances its fiscal reform agenda and broader economic management objectives
