Joseph Makoju

Who is Joseph Makoju?

Engineer Joseph Oyeyani Makoju served as Special Adviser to the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria under two separate Administrations and is presently Honorary Adviser on Electric Power to the current President/Commander-in-Chief, Federal Republic of Nigeria. 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 /Power Holden Company of Nigeria; 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.