Joseph Makoju
| Joseph O. Makoju, mni, OON, OFR | |
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| Special Adviser on Electric Power to Mr. President | |
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In office 1 July 2008 – 20 May 2008 |
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| Honorary Adviser to Mr. President on Electric Power | |
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Assumed office 20 May 2008 |
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| Special Adviser to Group President/CE Dangote Group | |
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Assumed office October 2009 |
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| Born | 13 July 1948 |
Engineer Joseph Oyeyani Makoju (born 13 July 1948) served as Special Adviser (Electric Power) to the President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria under two separate administrations. He is now Honorary Adviser on Electric Power to the current President/Commander-in-Chief, Federal Republic of Nigeria (effect from 20 May 2008). He is also the Special Adviser to the President/Chief Executive, Dangote Group, from 2009 to date, the chairman, Cement Manufacturers Association of Nigeria, as well as West African Power Pool Executive Board.
Prior to that, he was the managing director/chief executive officer of the erstwhile National Electric Power Authority (NEPA)/Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN); Nigeria's national electricity utility. He was selected and invited for this job by government on the basis of his track record in the private sector. And, for almost a decade, the managing director/chief executive officer of the West African Portland Cement Company, at that time Nigeria's largest cement manufacturing company. After his tenure as the managing director/Chief Executive of NEPA, Makoju was appointed consecutively as Special Adviser to three presidents of Nigeria.
Makoju was born on 13 July 1948 in Okene, Kogi State Nigeria. Makoju was a Harford award winner of Government College, Kaduna and also a J. F. Kennedy Essays Award winner of Federal Government College Warri Nigeria. He graduated from University of Nottingham, UK in 1972 with First Class Honour earning BSc in Mechanical Engineering; and M.Phil. Mechanical Engineering in 1974 from the same University. Attended National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies NIPSS, Kuru, Jos (mni) 1989 to 1990. He also holds an honorary Doctor of Science in Engineering degree from the Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi.
J. O. Makoju became the managing director of the Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) in 2000. He was faced with the challenge of providing uninterrupted power supply to the teeming masses and to position the firm for privatisation in the long term. At the beginning of his tenure, he was deputy head of a technical board that raised the power generating capacity of PHCN in the short term through the rehabilitation of power plants, installation of new units, reinforcement of the transmission system, construction of new transmission lines and sub-stations and expansion of the distribution network.
However, issues bordering on low gas supply to power plants, drop in water levels at Hydro stations, vandalism, theft contributed to reducing the maximum efficiency and power generation, failing to deliver on the government's electoral statements of uninterrupted power supply. By 2006, the country was facing an epileptic power supply and a potential national blackout.
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