NDPHC boss, Adighije, bags Energy Times award

The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company of Nigeria (NDPHC), Engineer Jennifer Adighije, has been named the Young Achiever of the Year at the 2025 Energy Times Awards, held over the weekend in Lagos.

According to the organisers, Adighije was selected for the award for demonstrating an “unwavering commitment to the sector-wide goal of 6,000 megawatts power generation to ensure widespread access to quality electricity.”

Adighije, who was appointed in August 2024, has overseen the restoration of two turbine units that had been offline due to bearing defects, adding 230MW to the national power generation output.

Speaking with newsmen at the award presentation dinner, Adighije described the accolade as a humbling experience, especially since the new management team has been in office for less than a year.

She stated: “It’s a very humbling experience for us at NDPHC. As you are aware, we’re a new management. We’ve been in office less than a year. This is a call to work harder.”

The NDPHC boss emphasised that the new management under her leadership has a clear mandate to scale power generation.

According to her, the NDPHC is the only agency with the explicit mandate to carry out interventions across the value chain, stressing that her team remains focused on this objective.

“The mandate is very clear to us, which is to scale generation, transmission, and distribution capacity across the power sector. We are the only agency, institution, or entity in the power sector with the explicit mandate to carry out interventions across the entire gas-to-electricity ecosystem. And we’re not losing sight of this,” she added.

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