{"id":83119,"date":"2026-03-03T15:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=83119"},"modified":"2026-03-03T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T15:51:46","slug":"tinubu-nominates-oyedele-as-minister-of-state-for-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/03\/03\/tinubu-nominates-oyedele-as-minister-of-state-for-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Nominates Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the President sought the Senate\u2019s confirmation of Oyedele\u2019s appointment. Uzoka-Anite has been redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State.<\/p>\n<p>Oyedele, from Ikaram-Akoko in Ondo State, was until his nomination the Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, which led major reforms of Nigeria\u2019s tax system.<\/p>\n<p>An economist and accountant, Oyedele holds a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy and Finance from Yaba College of Technology and a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.<\/p>\n<p>He has attended executive programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.<\/p>\n<p>He spent 22 years at PwC, rising to Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader. Oyedele is also a professor at Babcock University and a visiting scholar at Lagos Business School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has nominated Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite. In a letter to Senate President Godswill Akpabio, the President sought the Senate\u2019s confirmation of Oyedele\u2019s appointment. Uzoka-Anite has been redeployed to the Ministry of Budget and National Planning as Minister of State. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":83120,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1756,1718,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-83119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-finance","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83121,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83119\/revisions\/83121"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}