President Muhammadu Buhari has replaced Akintunde Akinwande, his former nominee for the chairmanship position of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC).
On Friday, Garba Shehu, senior special assistant to the president on media and publicity, announced that James Momoh, a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and Director of Energy Services and Controls at Howard University, United States of America, had been nominated for the plum job.
“President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Prof. James Momoh for the position of Chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC),” Shehu said in a statement.
“The president’s nominee to the senate for confirmation is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and director of Energy Services and Controls at Howard University, United States of America.
“Momoh, a life fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and Fellow of the Nigeria Society of Engineers, has over three decades of teaching and research experience in power system, smart grid, optimisation and power communications.
“The 1987 recipient of the National Science Foundation-US White House Presidential Young Investigator Award is a widely published scholar and has held several professional leadership positions in the academia.”
Shehu added that Buhari strongly believes that Momoh has the “technical knowledge, capacity and integrity to lead the commission’s effort to bring about the much-needed change in Nigeria’s power sector”.
