President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, following the replacement of Doris Uzoka-Anite.
The President’s request was conveyed in a letter read during Tuesday’s plenary by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.
Before his nomination, Oyedele served as the chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led efforts aimed at restructuring Nigeria’s tax system.
Oyedele, a native of Ikaram in Akoko area of Ondo State, is an economist, accountant and public policy specialist.
The 50-year-old studied Accountancy and Finance at Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma.
He later earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
He also participated in executive education programmes at institutions including the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science and the Harvard Kennedy School.
Oyedele spent over two decades at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), joining the firm in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
He is also a professor at Babcock University in Ogun State and serves as a visiting scholar at the Lagos Business School.
In a separate request, Tinubu also sought Senate approval for the appointment of Magnus Abe as Chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.
The President equally nominated Engineer Paul Yaro Jezhi, a former chairman of the Trade Union Congress in Kaduna State, and Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director at the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources, as non-executive commissioners.
After the letter was read on the floor of the chamber, Akpabio referred the nominations to the Senate Committee on Petroleum (Upstream) for further legislative consideration.