Tinubu nominates Taiwo Oyedele as minister of state for finance
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele, former chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, as minister of state for finance.
In a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio on Monday, Tinubu formally conveyed the nomination for confirmation, signalling a reshuffle at the top of Nigeria’s economic management team.
Taiwo Oyedele replaces Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, who moves to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as minister of state — her third portfolio under the Tinubu administration.
The nomination elevates one of Nigeria’s most prominent voices on tax and fiscal policy to a formal cabinet role. As committee chairman, Taiwo Oyedele led the overhaul of Nigeria’s tax framework, a process that produced the Tax Reform Bills currently before the National Assembly and which drew significant public debate over their implications for states and businesses.
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert from Ikaram, Akoko in Ondo State. He 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 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 at PwC, joining in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader before his appointment to the presidential committee. He is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
If confirmed by the Senate, Oyedele would take charge of the finance ministry’s day-to-day operations under a full minister, with direct oversight of revenue and fiscal policy implementation at a time Nigeria is navigating significant pressure on its public finances.
