President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate, requesting the screening and confirmation of Taiwo Oyedele as the Minister of State for Finance, succeeding Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite. The letter was read on Tuesday during plenary by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
Before his ministerial nomination, Oyedele, a native of Ikaram, Akoko in Ondo State, served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led efforts to overhaul Nigeria’s tax system.
Aged 50, Oyedele is an accomplished economist, accountant, and public policy expert. He obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University. He has also completed executive education programs at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oyedele spent 22 years at PwC, joining in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader. He is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.
In addition to Oyedele’s nomination, President Tinubu has requested the Senate’s confirmation of Senator Magnus Abe as Chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.
The President has also nominated Engineer Paul Yaro Jezhi, a former Trade Union Congress chairman in Kaduna State, and Mr. Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director at the now-defunct Department of Petroleum Resources, as non-executive commissioners of the NUPRC.
Senate President Akpabio referred the nominations to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream for further consideration.
ELIJAH ADEYEMI
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