{"id":226041,"date":"2026-03-05T01:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/nigeria-botswana-taps-nigerian-energy-leader-to-drive-power-sector-reform\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T01:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T23:14:38","slug":"nigeria-botswana-taps-nigerian-energy-leader-to-drive-power-sector-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/nigeria-botswana-taps-nigerian-energy-leader-to-drive-power-sector-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Botswana Taps Nigerian Energy Leader to Drive Power Sector Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">Botswana Power Corporation, BPC, has concluded plans to address persistent electricity supply challenges, expand its renewable energy footprint and become a net exporter of clean energy in the near term with the appointment of Nigerian energy leader, Akinwole II Omoboriowo, as Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Omoboriowo is a leader in African power infrastructure and energy finance, bringing over two decades of experience in utility-scale generation, project structuring and cross-border&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603040697.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana Power Corporation, BPC, has concluded plans to address persistent electricity supply challenges, expand its renewable energy footprint and become a net exporter of clean energy in the near term with the appointment of Nigerian energy leader, Akinwole II Omoboriowo, as Vice Chairman of its Board of Directors. Omoboriowo is a leader in African power [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":226042,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,13716,7424,7079,257,4687,482,7047,6099,5991,254,19987],"class_list":["post-226041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-drive","tag-energy","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian","tag-power","tag-reform","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taps"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}