By Our Reporter
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite.
The request was contained in a letter read during plenary on Tuesday by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
Tinubu said the nomination forms part of ongoing adjustments within the Federal Executive Council.
Before his nomination, Oyedele served as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led initiatives aimed at reforming Nigeria’s tax system. An economist and public policy expert, Oyedele spent over two decades at PwC, where he rose to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
In a separate letter, the President also asked the Senate to confirm former Rivers South-East senator Magnus Ngei Abe as chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.
Tinubu further nominated Paul Yaro Jezhi, a former Trade Union Congress chairman in Kaduna State, and Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director at the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources, as non-executive commissioners of the commission.
Akpabio referred the nominations to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream for further legislative consideration.