President Bola Tinubu has appointed Taiwo Oyedele as the new Minister of State for Finance, taking over from Doris Anite-Uzoka.
Anite-Uzoka will now serve as the Minister of State at the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, her third portfolio under the administration.
Bayo Onanuga, the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, stated that Tinubu also submitted Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for approval via a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
Before his nomination, Oyedele, from Ikaram, Akoko, Ondo State, chaired the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which restructured Nigeria’s tax system.
The 50-year-old economist, accountant, and public policy expert studied at Yaba College of Technology (HND in accountancy and finance), Oxford Brookes University (BSc in applied accounting), and completed executive education at institutions including LSE, Yale, Gordon Institute, and Harvard Kennedy School.
He worked 22 years at PwC, joining in 2001 and eventually becoming the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
Oyedele also teaches at Babcock University and is a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.
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