Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe (4th left), with the newly constituted Governing Board of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) in Abuja.
The Minister of Power, Joseph Tegbe has inaugurated the newly constituted Governing Board of the Rural Electrification Agency (REA) in Abuja, urging members to ensure every decision is guided by how it improves the lives and livelihoods of ordinary Nigerians.
The ceremony was attended by the Permanent Secretary, Board Chairman, Ayodele Fayose; REA’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer, Board members and Ministry’s management.
Tegbe described the Board’s constitution as consistent with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s drive to strengthen governance and accountability across public institutions, and called REA an institution for expanding opportunity: every mini-grid, solar home system and electrified market, school, health centre or farm, he said, represents an investment in human capital and economic inclusion. He pointed to REA’s existing programmes, the Energizing Education, Economies and Agriculture Programmes and the Africa Mini-Grids Programme, as evidence of that strategy at work, and noted that the Board, constituted under Section 130 of the Electricity Act, takes office at a defining moment for the Agency.
