The acting Managing Director of the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), Engr. Sule Ahmed Abdulaziz assumed duty on Wednesday, following his appointment on Tuesday.
According to his profile obtained by Daily Trust, Engr. Abdulaziz was the Regional Transmission Manager for Abuja Region of TCN before his appointment.
He joined the defunct National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) in 1996 as Manager, Electrical, and rose through the ranks to become the Senior Manager, Projects in the defunct Power Holding Company (PHCN) in charge of, and supervising various project sites nationwide.
In 2013, Engr. Abdulaziz was made the Assistant General Manager, Technical Audit in charge of valuation and vetting of all technical jobs executed by contractors among others.
In 2014, he was moved back to Projects department as the Assistant General Manager, Substation Projects, working as projects’ director for all TCN’s substations projects which includes general supervision, defining project parameters and ensuring compliance with specifications and timelines.
As Assistant General Manager (AGM), Projects, he led the TCN team to complete and energize various transmission substation projects.
Some of them are the 132 kilovolt (kV) Kukwaba substation in Abuja, the 330/132kV Maiduguri Substation in Borno, 132kV Odogunyan Substation in Lagos and the 132kV Okpella Substation in Edo State, among others.
He holds a BSc Electrical and MSc Automation Engineering from The Technical University, Sofia, Bulgaria and is a member of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), Council for the Regulations of Engineering (COREN) and a Chartered Member of Nigeria Institute of Management (NIM).
Engr. Abudulaziz has attended several local and international Engineering, Technical and Administrative courses.
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