President Bola Tinubu has nominated celebrated tax reform tsar Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, elevating the man who spearheaded Nigeria’s most ambitious tax overhaul, into the role of deputy finance chief in a fresh cabinet shake-up.
Oyedele replaces Doris Anite-Uzoka, bringing to the finance ministry the technocrat widely credited with simplifying tax laws, driving digital compliance and reshaping Nigeria’s fiscal policy framework to boost revenue and investor confidence.
Anite-Uzoka will now move to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, as the Minister of State, her third portfolio in the administration.
Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, said Tinubu has also conveyed the nomination of Oyedele to the Senate for confirmation in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
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Until President Tinubu nominated him as a minister, Oyedele from Ikaram, Akoko, Ondo State, was the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which overhauled Nigeria’s tax system.
Oyedele, 50, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert.
He attended Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in accountancy and finance. He attended Oxford Brookes University and earned a BSc in applied accounting.
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He also completed executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oyedele spent 22 years of his working career at PwC, joining in 2001 and rising to become the Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
Oyedele is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
