{"id":80528,"date":"2025-12-18T17:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80528"},"modified":"2025-12-18T17:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:17:11","slug":"tinubu-approves-fresh-nerc-board-line-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/18\/tinubu-approves-fresh-nerc-board-line-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Approves Fresh NERC Board Line-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), following the Senate\u2019s confirmation of nominees on December 16, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The development was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new arrangement, Dr. Mulisiu Olalekan Oseni has been appointed Chairman of the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Oseni, who joined NERC as a Commissioner in January 2017 and later became Vice Chairman, assumed office as Chairman on December 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>His tenure will run until the completion of his 10-year statutory service, in line with the Electricity Act, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yusuf Ali has been named Vice Chairman. A Commissioner since February 2022, Ali also took office on December 1, 2025, and will serve until the end of his current term.<\/p>\n<p>Other members of the reconstituted board include Nathan Rogers Shatti and Dafe Akpeneye, both serving second terms after their initial appointments in January 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Aisha Mahmud Kanti Bello is also on a second term, having first been appointed in December 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Chidi Ike, appointed in February 2022, retains his position on the board, while Dr. Fouad Animashaun joins as a new Commissioner effective December 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Animashaun is an energy economist with extensive experience in the power sector and most recently served as Executive Commissioner and Chief Executive Officer of the Lagos State Electricity Regulatory Commission.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu has tasked the reconstituted NERC board with sustaining ongoing reforms in the power sector and ensuring strict compliance with the Electricity Act, 2023, as efforts continue to improve regulation, efficiency and service delivery in Nigeria\u2019s electricity industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), following the Senate\u2019s confirmation of nominees on December 16, 2025. The development was disclosed in a statement issued on Thursday by the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. Under the new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80529,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80530,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80528\/revisions\/80530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}