{"id":3445,"date":"2026-04-23T13:21:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/?p=3445"},"modified":"2026-04-23T13:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T13:54:12","slug":"prof-taiwo-oyedeles-rise-from-adviser-to-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/prof-taiwo-oyedeles-rise-from-adviser-to-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Taiwo Oyedele\u2019s Rise: From Adviser to Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f July 7, 2023 \u2014 Appointed Chairman, Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy &amp; Tax Reforms<br \/>\n\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f August 8, 2023 \u2014 Formally inaugurated and delivered his inaugural address at the State House<br \/>\n\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f March 11, 2026 \u2014 Confirmed by the Senate as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Doris Uzoka-Anite<br \/>\n\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f March 16, 2026 \u2014 Sworn in as Minister of State for Finance by President Tinubu<br \/>\n\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f April 21, 2026 \u2014 Elevated to Minister of Finance &amp; Coordinating Minister of the Economy, replacing Wale Edun<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Oyedele spent 32 months as Committee Chairman before joining the cabinet, and just 36 days as Minister of State before being elevated to the substantive Finance Minister role.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under his leadership, four tax reform bills were passed by the National Assembly in May 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f July 7, 2023 \u2014 Appointed Chairman, Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy &amp; Tax Reforms \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f August 8, 2023 \u2014 Formally inaugurated and delivered his inaugural address at the State House \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f March 11, 2026 \u2014 Confirmed by the Senate as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Doris Uzoka-Anite \ud83d\uddd3\ufe0f March 16, 2026 \u2014 Sworn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[25,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-catchup","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3454,"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3445\/revisions\/3454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.gov.ng\/ministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}