{"id":170153,"date":"2019-11-24T14:52:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-24T13:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170153"},"modified":"2019-11-24T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-24T14:00:30","slug":"sam-amadi-ex-nerc-chairman-gets-new-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=170153","title":{"rendered":"Sam Amadi, ex-NERC chairman gets new appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dr Sam Amadi, a former Executive Chairman and CEO of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has been appointed Chairman of Imo State Power and Rural Electrification Agency (I-POREA).<\/p>\n

Chibuike Onyeukwu, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Emeka Ihedioha, made the announcement in a statement on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Members are Engr Solomon Opara \u2013 Member (Owerri Zone); Engr. Uzoma Achinanya \u2013 Member (Okigwe Zone); Barr. Mrs. Ozioma Izuora \u2013 Member (Orlu Zone); Barr. Ani Eke \u2013 Member (Owerri Zone); Engr. Celestine Opurum \u2013 Member (Orlu Zone) and Francis Chisa Alaegbu \u2013 (Okigwe Zone).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe appointment takes effect immediately\u201d, the statement noted.<\/p>\n

I-POREA was established to exploit Imo natural gas, huge waste and alternative energy resources to generate power to supplement electricity supply in the state, most especially in the rural areas.<\/p>\n

The Imo State Government owns 53 percent of the Agency while the 27 Local Government Areas (LGAs) own 47 percent.<\/p>\n

The new chairman, Sam Amadi, was part of the Defence Team to late Ken Saro-Wiwa, the renowned author and environmentalist.<\/p>\n

The member of the Nigerian Bar Association, was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard\u2019s Kennedy School of Government and served as Special Adviser to the ex-Senate President, Ken Nnamani.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr Sam Amadi, a former Executive Chairman and CEO of Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has been appointed Chairman of Imo State Power and Rural Electrification Agency (I-POREA). Chibuike Onyeukwu, Chief Press Secretary to Governor Emeka Ihedioha, made the announcement in a statement on Saturday. Members are Engr Solomon Opara \u2013 Member (Owerri Zone); Engr. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":170154,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=170153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=170153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=170153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=170153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}