President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has written to the Nigerian Senate, requesting the screening and confirmation of Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance.
The letter conveying the nomination was read during plenary by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
In the correspondence, the President asked the Senate to consider and approve Oyedele’s appointment to replace Doris Uzoka‑Anite, who previously served as Minister of State for Finance.
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant, and public policy expert from Ikaram in Akoko area of Ondo State.
Before his nomination, he served as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms.
The committee he led was responsible for developing reforms aimed at restructuring Nigeria’s tax system and improving government revenue generation.
He began his career in professional services and spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
Oyedele holds a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
He also completed executive education programmes at London School of Economics, Yale University, Harvard Kennedy School, and the Gordon Institute of Business Science.
Beyond public policy work, Oyedele serves as a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and as a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.
In the same correspondence, President Tinubu also requested Senate confirmation for Magnus Abe as Chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.
The President further nominated Engineer Paul Yaro Jezhi, a former chairman of the Trade Union Congress in Kaduna State, and Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director at the Department of Petroleum Resources, as non-executive commissioners of the commission.
Following the presentation of the letter at plenary, the nominations were referred to the appropriate Senate committees for legislative consideration and screening.
The Senate is expected to review the nominations before making a decision on their confirmation.
