Tinubu fires Edun of Finance and Dangiwa of housing!
Edun Hands Over To Oyedele As Tinubu Approves Minor Cabinet Shuffle!
(They claim it is a minor cabinet shuffle! – you do not shuffle by firing your ministers)
Similarly, Ahmed Musa Dangiwa is to hand over to Muttaqha Rabe Darma, who has been named ministerial nominee and designate for the Housing and Urban Development Ministry.
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has been asked to hand over following a minor cabinet reshuffle approved by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
According to a memo signed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, George Akume, Edun and the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, are to leave the Federal Executive Council (FEC), with their replacements already named.
Edun has been directed to hand over to Taiwo Oyedele, who was previously Minister of State for Finance and will now assume office as Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy.
Similarly, Ahmed Musa Dangiwa has been directed to hand over to Muttaqha Rabe Darma, who has been named as ministerial nominee and minister designate for the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development.
was the Chairman of Chapel Hill Denham Group, a leading investment bank in Lagos. He also previously served as an Executive Director at the former Investment Banking & Trust Company Limited, now Stanbic IBTC Bank.
TAIWO OYEDELE
Meanwhile, Taiwo Oyedele was appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Minister of State for Finance.
The former Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms succeeded Doris Uzoka-Anite in the Ministry of Finance.
In July 2023, Tinubu appointed Oyedele, a fiscal policy partner and Africa Tax Leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), to chair the Presidential Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms Committee.
Tinubu (left) congratulated Oyedele (right) after swearing him in as Minister of State for Finance at the Presidential Villa on Monday March 16, 2026.
The 50-year-old Oyedele is a public policy expert, accountant, and economist.
He attended Yaba College of Technology, where he obtained a Higher National Diploma (HND) in Accountancy and Finance. He later earned a BSc in Applied Accounting from Oxford Brookes University.
Oyedele also attended several executive education programmes at the London School of Economics, Yale University, the Gordon Institute of Business Science, and the Harvard Kennedy School.
He worked for several decades with PwC, where he began his career in 2001 and rose to become a fiscal policy partner.
