President Bola Tinubu has appointed Dr. Abdullahi Mustapha as the Director-General of the Energy Commission of Nigeria (ECN).
The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Ajuri Ngelale, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Abuja.
Mustapha, who obtained his Doctorate degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Renewable Energy, has over 10 years working in the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission.
He also served as a Research Associate in the School of Engineering at the University of Manchester, England.
The statement read: “The President expects the new ECN Chief Executive to “make a positive impact on his administration’s intensive push to diversify the nation’s energy sources in a synergised fashion across the government towards the ultimate aim of industrialising every part of the country with every citizen emancipated from the shackles of energy poverty.”