President Bola Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele, the economist who led Nigeria’s sweeping tax reform agenda, as Minister of State for Finance a move that signals the administration’s continued push to tighten its grip on fiscal policy.
In a formal letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Tinubu requested confirmation of the appointment. Oyedele would step into the role currently held by Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, who is being moved to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning — her third portfolio under this administration.
Oyedele, 50, is no stranger to the machinery of government finance. As chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, he was the chief architect behind some of the administration’s most significant revenue and taxation overhauls. Before that, he spent over two decades at PwC, where he rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
His academic credentials are equally formidable. He holds qualifications from Yaba College of Technology and Oxford Brookes University, with executive training at the London School of Economics, Yale, Harvard Kennedy School, and the Gordon Institute of Business Science. He also holds a professorship at Babcock University and a visiting scholar position at the Lagos Business School.
The nomination is widely seen as a deliberate effort to place a seasoned technocrat at the heart of Nigeria’s economic management at a time when fiscal pressure remains intense.
Senate confirmation is the final step before Oyedele can assume the role.
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