President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm Taiwo Oyedele as minister of state for finance, replacing Doris Uzoka-Anite.
President Bola Tinubu has written to the Nigerian Senate seeking the screening and confirmation of Taiwo Oyedele as minister of state for finance, replacing Doris Uzoka-Anite. The letter conveying the nomination was read during plenary on Tuesday by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.
Until his nomination, Oyedele served as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he played a key role in efforts to overhaul Nigeria’s tax system. Oyedele, who hails from Ikaram in Akoko area of Ondo State, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert.
The 50-year-old attended Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma in accountancy and finance, and later earned a Bachelor of Science degree in applied accounting from Oxford Brookes University. He also completed executive programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, Gordon Institute of Business Science and the Harvard Kennedy School. Oyedele spent 22 years at PwC, rising to become fiscal policy partner and Africa tax leader, and currently serves as a professor at Babcock University and a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.
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