President Tinubu Nominates Oyedele As Minister Of State For Finance

BY CHIKA OKEKE, Abuja

Mr Taiwo Oyedele

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

Uzoka-Anite will now move to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, as the Minister of State, making it her third portfolio in the APC-led administration.

President Tinubu on Tuesday conveyed the nomination of Oyedele to the Senate for confirmation, in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.

Until President Tinubu nominated him as a minister, 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 attended Oxford Brookes University and earned a BSc in applied accounting.

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

He spent 22 years of his working career at PwC, joining in 2001 and rising to become the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.

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

This was contained in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga in Abuja.

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