President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sworn in Taiwo Oyedele as the Minister of State for Finance at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.

Oyedele replaces Doris Uzoka-Anite, who was recently redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning, marking her third portfolio in the current administration.

Before his appointment, Oyedele served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led efforts aimed at overhauling Nigeria’s tax system.

The 50-year-old economist, accountant and public policy expert, from Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, holds a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.

He has also undertaken 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 at PwC, joining the firm in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.

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