NNPC: Buhari Fires 38 Management Staff, Appoints Four GEDs

The Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation has appointed four new Group Executive Directors to man the four new directorates that have been approved by the Presidency.

This was contained in a statement by Ohi Alegbe, the Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, in Abuja on Tuesday.

The statement said the new Group Managing Director, Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, disclosed that the new appointments were in line with the Federal Government’s aspiration to transform the corporation.

It stated that the appointment was to ensure a lean, efficient, business-focused, transparent and accountable national oil company in line with international best practices.

It stated that the appointments, which were approved by President Muhammadu Buhari, included Dr. Maikanti Baru, Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production; Isiaka Abdulrazaq, Group Executive Director, Finance and Services.

Others are Engineer Dennis Nnamdi Ajulu, Group Executive Director, Refining and Technology; and Dr. Babatunde Victor Adeniran, Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment.

The statement added that a new Company Secretary, Legal Adviser and Managing Directors have also been appointed for the Strategic Business Units.

According to the statement, they are Chidi Momah, Group General Manager, Company Secretary and Legal Adviser; Esther Nnamdi Ogbue, Managing Director, Pipelines and Products Marketing Company; Engr. Chinedu Ezeribe, the Managing Director, Warri Refinning and Petrochemicals Company; Babatunde Bakare, Managing Director, Nigerian Gas Company; Inuwa Ibrahim Waya, the Managing Director, HYSON; Abubakar Mai-Bornu, Managing Director, Nigerian Petroleum Development Company; and Ladipo Fagbola, the Managing Director, NNPC Retail.

Others are Rowland Ewubare, the Managing Director, Integrated Data Services Limited; Modupe Bammeke, Managing Director, NNPC Properties; Abdulkadir Saidu, the Managing Director, Duke Oil; and Dafe Sejebor, the Group General Manager, Nigerian Petroleum Investment Management Services.

According to the statement, the corporation also retired 38 top management staff, reducing the number from 122 to 83.

It stated that 12 personnel had also been recruited from the private sector into top management cadre to jump-start a new business outlook.

It added that the new appointees would make the operational environment more profit-driven business as against the current civil service orientation.

NAN.