President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of Finance to replace Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite.

According to a statement by Bayo Onanuga, Special Assistant to the President on Information and Strategy, President Tinubu informed the Senate of Oyedele’s nomination in a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio for confirmation.

According to the statement, Uzoka Anite will now move to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State, the third position in the government.

Prior to his appointment as minister, Oyedele was chairman of the Presidential Commission on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reform, which overhauled Nigeria’s tax system.

Mr. Oedele (50), who hails from Ikalam, Akoko, Ondo State, is an economist, accountant and public policy expert.

He attended Yaba University of Technology where he obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accounting and Finance. He attended Oxford Brookes University where he earned a BSc in Applied Accounting.

He 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 a 22-year career at PwC, joining the company in 2001 and rising to the position of Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.

Mr. Oedele is a Professor at Babcock University, Ogun State and a Visiting Fellow at the Lagos Business School.