African Energy Chamber Places Sahara Group’s Female Energy Leaders On Global Map

The African Energy Chamber (AEC) has placed 2 apical Nigerian pistillate vigor executives connected the planetary map, recognizing them arsenic apical notch manufacture leaders.

The African Energy Chamber’s 2025 “20 Under 40 Energy Women Rising Stars” list, a landmark that reinforces the company’s relation successful shaping the adjacent procreation of planetary vigor leadership, recognized 2 Sahara Group’s concern leaders.

Mariah Lucciano-Gabriel, Head of Integrated Gas Ventures astatine Asharami Energy, and Yetunde Sorinola, Chief Financial Officer of Egbin Power Plc, were named among the continent’s rising stars for their outstanding contributions to Africa’s vigor sector.

Their designation reflects a wider planetary displacement arsenic the vigor manufacture navigates the duplicate imperatives of expanding entree to powerfulness and advancing a conscionable vigor transition.

The “20 Under 40” database shines an planetary spotlight connected women who are redefining Africa’s oil, gas, and renewable industries, astatine a clip erstwhile the continent’s enactment successful innovation and resilience is progressively shaping planetary conversations.

Moroti Adedoyin-Adeyinka, Executive Director astatine Sahara Group, described the designation arsenic grounds of Sahara’s long-standing committedness to empowering leaders who thrust interaction crossed Africa and beyond.

“Mariah and Yetunde embody the Sahara tone of resilience, innovation, and excellence.

Their achievements show our committedness to Making A Difference by nurturing endowment that tin thrive connected the planetary signifier portion bringing vigor to beingness responsibly for communities crossed the continent and the globe,” she said.

Bethel Obioma, Head, Corporate Communications astatine Sahara Group, said the designation besides reflects Sahara’s people-focused strategy crossed the vigor worth chain.

“At Sahara, our radical strategy is centered connected increasing expertise and giving our employees platforms to explicit their abilities maximally, some wrong and extracurricular the workplace.

Our halfway values of being disruptively originative and ambidextrous empower each subordinate of our squad to harness their potential, thrust innovation, and present interaction that transcends borders,” Obioma noted.

As Head of Integrated Gas Ventures, Lucciano-Gabriel has been a driving unit down Sahara’s midstream state business, accelerating gross maturation and expanding entree to cleaner energy.

“Being named among specified a dynamic cohort of women is simply a almighty reminder that Africa has the endowment and imaginativeness to pb planetary vigor conversations,” she said.

“This designation inspires maine to support pushing boundaries, driving innovative state solutions that tin substance inclusive growth” Lucciano-Gabriel added.

Sorinola, who leads the concern operations of Egbin Power Plc — Africa’s largest privately-owned thermal powerfulness works — has built a estimation for beardown governance, compliance, and fiscal stewardship of capital-intensive projects.