President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has written to the Nigerian Senate seeking the confirmation of Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance.
The request was conveyed in a letter read during Tuesday’s plenary by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.
Oyedele, an economist and public policy expert from Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, previously served as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he played a key role in efforts to restructure Nigeria’s tax system.
The 50-year-old holds a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and later obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
He has also undertaken executive education programmes at several international institutions, including the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Before his nomination, Oyedele spent 22 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), joining the firm in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
He currently serves as a professor at Babcock University and as a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
In a separate letter, President Tinubu also requested the Senate to screen and confirm Magnus Abe as Chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC), following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.
The President further nominated Engineer Paul Yaro Jezhi, a former chairman of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria in Kaduna State, and Mr Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director at the Department of Petroleum Resources, as non-executive commissioners.
Following the announcement, Akpabio referred the nominations to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream for further legislative consideration.
