President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele, the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which overhauled Nigeria’s tax system as the minister of state for finance.

A statement by Bayo Onanuga, the President’s spoksman said Mr Oyedele replace Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite who has been moved to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, as the Minister of State, her third portfolio in the administration.

President Tinubu’s  nomination of Oyedele  has been conveyed to the Senate for confirmation in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.

The statement added that Mr. Oyedele, who hails  from Ikaram, Akoko, Ondo State “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.

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.