President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sworn in Prof. Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance.
Oyedele, who served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Tax Reforms, took the oath of office on Monday at the State House in Abuja.
He replaces Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite, who was redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, marking her third portfolio in the current administration.
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It would be recalled that President Tinubu, on Tuesday, 3 March, transmitted Oyedele’s name to the Nigerian Senate in a letter addressed to the Senate President, requesting his confirmation.
Oyedele’s appointment comes months after the National Assembly of Nigeria passed a set of tax reform laws spearheaded by him as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms.
A native of Ikaram in the Akoko area of Ondo State, the 50-year-old economist and public policy expert brings decades of experience in finance, taxation and economic policy to his new role.
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Oyedele began his academic journey at Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy and Finance.
He later earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
He has also attended several executive education programmes at leading global institutions, including the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Before entering public service, Oyedele spent 22 years with global professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he joined in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
Beyond his professional career, he is also involved in academia. Oyedele serves as a professor at Babcock University and is a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
His appointment is expected to reinforce the administration’s efforts to deepen fiscal reforms and strengthen Nigeria’s economic governance framework.