Dr. Steven Andzenge, Executive Director (Legal Services), Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited.
Dr. Steven Andzenge, MON is the Executive Director Legal Services/Company Secretary, Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited. He comes on board with tremendous boardroom experience having served on several boards of private and public companies and has extensive cognate industry and management experience with a diverse multidisciplinary background. He is a Corporate Lawyer, a Compliance & Regulation Specialist, a Certified Regulatory expert, member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, U.K, Chartered Management Consultant and Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants – Nigeria.
He has been engaged in legal practice offering multidisciplinary services in diverse sectors including privatization and commercialization of Nigerian public enterprises.
Dr. Andzenge obtained a Second Class Upper LL.B degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, LLM from Northwestern University Chicago, USA and Ph.D in Law from the University of Jos. He also attended the Harvard University (Kennedy School) Boston, in USA for the Executive Senior Managers in Government and also Leadership in the 21 st Century training, which was a training for carefully selected Executives focused on effective, peaceful and impactful resolutions to global challenges.
In 2001, he was appointed and served for eight (8) years as Director, Legal Services at the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) where his Legal/Regulatory coordinating and facilitative role contributed immensely to the effective introduction of mobile telephony and broadband services and rapid transformation of the Nigerian Telecommunications Industry. In further recognition of this contribution, he was conferred with a National Honour by then President Umaru Yar’Adua, GCFR in 2007.
In 2010, he was appointed Commissioner in the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), where he served a five-year term as Commissioner in charge of the Legal, Licensing and Enforcement Division of the Commission.
Dr. Andzenge was again called to national service in 2021, when he was appointed by President Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR as Chairman of the Presidential Visitation Panel to Usumanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto for the period 2011-2015 and 2016 -2020; a duty he discharged creditably. He had at various times participated in international utility affairs, especially in ITU (International Telecommunications Union) and also the West African Telecommunications Regulatory Assembly (WATRA) (ECOWAS Region), where he was an Alternate Board Member/Delegate and subsequently Executive Board member of AFUR -African Forum for Utility Regulators for 4 years. He also participated in a number of National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) - organized programmes in USA.
Upon disengagement from the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission following the completion of his five year term, Dr. Andzenge returned to private practice as the Executive Director, Ciena Consulting, a firm of Legal, Regulatory and Compliance multidimensional service, offering corporate and transaction advisory services for infrastructure development in the critical utility sectors of Power, Telecommunications, Aviation, Financial and PPP transactions.
He was appointed Executive Director, Legal Services and Company Secretary of NDPHC for an initial four year term with effect from 16 th May, 2023. He is married to Dr. Karmel Andzenge, with children.