Date:
18 July 2026 9:34am WAT
A group, Energy Transition Africa, ETA ,has concluded arrangements aimed at training fifteen, 15, Founding Class of Pan-African Fellows, following a competitive selection process that attracted 231 applications from eight countries to look into energy crisisin the continent.
The professionals selected for Cohort Zero are as follows:Kemoh Lumei,Liberia;Damilola Olowookere, Nigeria;Fizzo Chidakwa, Zambia;
Chioma Ome,Nigeria; Deborah Bonney,Ghana; Nozuko Poni,South Africa; Edward Odindo, Kenya; Dr.Kashema Bahago, Nigeria; Moses Kilimo,Kenya.
Others include,Etareri Dekpe, Nigeria,An institutional pitch and recorded professional showcase; Elvis Acenyo,Ghana, considered for publication of Energy Transition Africa’s knowledge;Kodjo Attikpo, Togo;Adaku Ajaghaku -Nigeria; Dieudonne Soatsara ,Madagascar; and Toyeeb Arowona of Nigeria.
Its Executive Director,Vincent Egoro
in statement in Abuja, explained that they are meant for the inaugural production fellowship, expecting to strengthening Africa’s energy, saying, “Africa can mobilise finance,import technology and announce ambitious across Africa.”
“The programme was established in response to a challenge that receives far less financing terms, strengthen the institution,operate the infrastructure,attention giving to financing and infrastructure; the shortage of professionals equipped to translate professionals selected for the Founding Class (Cohort Zero)”
“We will communicate the evidence and hold execution accountable, shape Africa’s energy transition.The decisive question is often who will write the policy, interrogate the energy transition in governments ,regulation, development finance, infrastructure, research,civil society, from durable public value.”
Egoro further explained, the eleven-week programme begins on 31 July 2026 and is designed as a production that determine whether infrastructure continues to perform long after commissioning.
“Together,the professionals will reflect the multidisciplinary expertise increasingly required to deliver Africa’s energy transition, bringing experience from public institutions, development to the continent.Our long-term effort is to strengthen the people,ideas and institutions that will representing eight African countries.”
“ETA publishes evidence-based analysis on energy access, climate and energy finances, policy and regulation , critical minerals, infrastructure, industrialisation and the political economy of Cohort Zero will establish the standards, culture and intellectual ambition for continent’s energy transition,” he added.
