August 25, (THEWILL) – Jennifer Adighije has been appointed by President Bola Tinubu as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Niger Delta Power Holding Company, NDPHC. Prior to this appointment, Jennifer was the president’s Senior Special Assistant on Entrepreneurship Development in Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy to the president. Not only is her appointment considered an effort to consolidate the National Integrated Power Projects, but he also feels that being an experienced engineer with vast competencies across management functions in the private and public sectors, she obviously has something to offer in his government, being a graduate of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Lagos with an M.Sc in Telecoms Networks from Queen Mary University of London. Her appointment is as good as a round peg in a round hole. Jennifer began her career in Globacom upon her return to Nigeria and later moved to Helios Towers Nigeria as Head, Project Management Office. Her appointment with Helios however ended in a not so pleasant manner which led to her exploring entrepreneurship. She floated a fashion house, House of Silk and later returned to paid employment as a key player in the Procurement Department at the Central Bank of Nigeria. Jennifer who is divorced is the daughter of Abia Senator, Chris Adighije, a member of the second national assembly, chairman, governing council and pro-chancellor of the Federal University, Lokoja and more importantly, a staunch chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Sources claim that her elevation is payback for how assiduously her father worked for Tinubu’s presidential victory at the polls.
