{"id":227664,"date":"2026-03-21T01:47:57","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-from-lagos-to-gaborone-akinwole-ii-omoboriowo-rises-as-vice-chairman-of-botswana-power-corporation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T01:47:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:47:57","slug":"botswana-from-lagos-to-gaborone-akinwole-ii-omoboriowo-rises-as-vice-chairman-of-botswana-power-corporation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-from-lagos-to-gaborone-akinwole-ii-omoboriowo-rises-as-vice-chairman-of-botswana-power-corporation\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: From Lagos to Gaborone &#8211; Akinwole II Omoboriowo Rises As Vice Chairman of Botswana Power Corporation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">A Nigerian energy executive is stepping into one of Southern Africa&#8217;s most sensitive boardrooms. Akinwole II Omoboriowo has been appointed Board Member and Vice Chairman of the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), the state utility at the centre of the country&#8217;s electricity reforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Omoboriowo&#8217;s appointment comes at a delicate time. Botswana has faced recurring power supply instability, with generation at key coal plants fluctuating in recent years. Output at Morupule B, for example, declined&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603090628.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>A Nigerian energy executive is stepping into one of Southern Africa&#8217;s most sensitive boardrooms. Akinwole II Omoboriowo has been appointed Board Member and Vice Chairman of the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC), the state utility at the centre of the country&#8217;s electricity reforms. Omoboriowo&#8217;s appointment comes at a delicate time. Botswana has faced recurring power supply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":227665,"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":[258,256,53965,4718,2462,6888,5988,2858,2477,257,53813,7047,8688,254,8505],"class_list":["post-227664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-akinwole","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-chairman","tag-corporation","tag-gaborone","tag-lagos","tag-news","tag-omoboriowo","tag-power","tag-rises","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vice"],"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\/227664","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=227664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}