President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Anite-Uzoka in a cabinet reshuffle announced on Tuesday.

Anite-Uzoka has been redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, marking her third portfolio within the current administration.

The President conveyed Oyedele’s nomination to the Senate for confirmation in a letter addressed to Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

Until his nomination, Oyedele, who hails from Ikaram Akoko in Ondo State, served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms. The committee led a sweeping overhaul of Nigeria’s tax system, introducing measures aimed at simplifying compliance and strengthening revenue mobilisation.

Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert with more than two decades of experience in fiscal strategy and tax administration.

He obtained a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and later earned a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University. He has also completed executive education programmes at 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 at PwC, where he joined in 2001 and rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.

In addition to his professional career, he serves as a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and is a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.

His nomination is subject to Senate confirmation.