RismadarVoice Reporters, March 10, 2026
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Tuesday asked the Senate to screen and confirm Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, replacing Dr Doris Uzoka-Anite.
The President also requested the upper chamber to confirm former Rivers South-East Senator, Magnus Abe, as Chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC).
The requests were contained in separate letters read during plenary by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio.
In the letter, Tinubu urged the Senate to consider and approve Oyedele’s nomination as part of ongoing adjustments within the Federal Executive Council (FEC).
Until his nomination, Oyedele, a native of Ikaram in Akoko, Ondo State, served as Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he spearheaded initiatives aimed at overhauling Nigeria’s tax system.
The 50-year-old economist, accountant, and public policy expert spent 22 years at PwC, joining the firm in 2001 and rising to become Fiscal Policy Partner and Africa Tax Leader.
In a separate correspondence, the President also sought Senate approval for the appointment of Senator Magnus Abe as Chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, following the resignation of Gbenga Komolafe.
Also nominated for confirmation are 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 (DPR). Both were nominated as Non-Executive Commissioners of the commission.
After the letters were read, Senate President Akpabio referred the nominations to the Senate Committee on Petroleum Upstream for further legislative action.
