Tinubu to swear in Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance today

President Bola Tinubu is expected to swear in Mr. Taiwo Oyedele today as the Minister of State for Finance in a ceremony scheduled to take place at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Oyedele’s swearing-in follows his nomination by the president to fill the position vacated by Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite, who was recently reassigned to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning.

Uzoka-Anite’s redeployment marks her third ministerial portfolio since the inauguration of the Tinubu administration.

Until his nomination, Oyedele served as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led efforts to review and modernise Nigeria’s tax framework as part of broader economic reform initiatives of the federal government.

An accomplished economist, accountant and public policy expert, the 50-year-old Oyedele hails from Ikaram-Akoko in Ondo State.

He began his academic journey at Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance. He later earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.

Oyedele has also undertaken several executive education programmes at leading global institutions, including the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science in South Africa, and the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States.

Before entering government service, he spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he joined in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader, advising governments and multinational corporations on tax policy and fiscal reforms.

Beyond his professional career, Oyedele is active in academia. He is a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and serves as a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School, where he contributes to research and policy discussions on taxation, public finance and economic reform.