HeadlineBuhari Replaces American Professor Who ‘Rejected’ NERC Chair With Another US Professor

Buhari Replaces American Professor Who ‘Rejected’ NERC Chair With Another US Professor

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SAN FRANCISCO, April 21, (THEWILL) – Following the persistent failure of his earlier nominee, Akintunde Akinwande, for the chairmanship position of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, to show up for screening, President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Prof. James Momoh for the position of Chairman of the commission.

Akinwande is a Nigerian American engineering professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the United States.

Aside failing to appear before the upper legislative chamber on two separate occasions, the nominee, whose name was submitted last year to the Senate, did not also go to the Department of State Services, DSS, for the required screening.

This prompted speculations that he was not interested in the job, but the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly (Senate), Ita Enang, had denied the reports, claiming that Akinwande was in touch with the Senate Committee on Power, Steel Development and Metallurgy.

But a statement issued on Friday by presidential spokesman, Garba Shehu stated that the President’s new 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.

The statement has it 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.

It reads in part, “Prof. 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.

“Prof Momoh has a Doctorate degree in electrical engineering from Howard University; Master’s degrees in systems engineering from the University of Pennsylvania; and electrical engineering from Carnegie University. He obtained his Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1975 from Howard University.”

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