President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite.
Uzoka-Anite has been redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, marking her third portfolio in the current administration.
The nomination was conveyed to the Senate in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio for confirmation.
Until his nomination, Oyedele served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led sweeping reforms of Nigeria’s tax framework.
A native of Ikaram, Akoko in Ondo State, the 50-year-old economist and accountant 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, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oyedele spent 22 years at PwC, joining in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
He is currently a professor at Babcock University and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
If confirmed by the Senate, Oyedele is expected to bring his fiscal policy and tax reform experience into the finance ministry at a time of ongoing economic reforms.
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