The requests were contained in separate letters read during plenary on Tuesday by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

President Bola Tinubu has asked the Senate to screen and confirm Mr Taiwo Oyedele as Minister of State for Finance, while also seeking approval for former senator Magnus Abe as chairman of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC).

The requests were contained in separate letters read during plenary on Tuesday by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.

In the letter, Tinubu asked the Senate to consider and approve Oyedele’s nomination as part of ongoing adjustments within the Federal Executive Council.

Oyedele, who hails from Ikaram in Akoko area of Ondo State, previously served as chairman of the Presidential Committee on Fiscal Policy and Tax Reforms, where he led reforms aimed at restructuring Nigeria’s tax system.

The 50-year-old is an economist, accountant and public policy expert.

In another letter, the President sought the Senate’s screening and confirmation of 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 chairman of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria in Kaduna State, and Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director at the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources.

Both were nominated as non-executive commissioners of the commission.

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