NNPC
President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari as the
new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation (NNPC).
The appointment takes effect 8 July.
He replaces Dr.Maikanti Baru as the 19th Group Managing Director of the National Oil Company.
A release today in Abuja by the NNPC Group General Manager, Group
Public Affairs, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, stated that President Buhari also
appointed alongside Kyari, seven new Chief Operating Officers.
Until his new appointment, Kyari, a geologist, was Group General
Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division of NNPC and also doubled, since
13th May, 2018, as Nigeria’s National Representative to the Organization
of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC.
President Buhari has directed that the New GMD and the newly
appointed Chief Operating Officers work with the current occupiers of
the various offices till 7th July, 2019 towards a smooth transition on
8th July 2019 when their appointments would take effect to ensure a
smooth transition.
However, the appointment of Mr. Farouk Garba Said (North West), who
is replacing a retiring Chief Operating Officer, is effective from 28th
June, 2019.
The newly appointed Chief Operating Officers are:
* Mr. Roland Onoriode Ewubare (South-South) – Chief Operating Officer, Upstream
*Engr. Mustapha Yinusa Yakubu (North Central) – Chief Operating Officer Refining and Petrochemicals
*Engr. Yusuf Usman (North East) – Chief Operating Officer, Gas and Power
*Ms. Lawrencia Nwadiabuwa Ndupu (South East), Chief Operating Officer Ventures
* Mr. Umar Isa Ajiya (North West) – Chief Financial Officer
*Engr. Adeyemi Adetunji (South West) – Chief Operating Officer, Downstream and
*Mr. Farouk Garba Said (North West) – Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services.
Ughamadu stated in the release that NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, had congratulated the new appointees.
Mallam Kyari is a quintessential crude oil marketer with
prerequisite certification and outfield pedigree in Petroleum Economics
and crude oil and gas trading.
In the last 27 years he had traversed the entire value chain of the Petroleum Industry, with exceptional records of performance.
Under his watch, the Crude Oil Marketing Division has recorded
noticeable transformation in the management and sales of the various
Nigeria’s crude oil grades via an infusion of transparency and
automation of the processes, the release by the NNPC spokesperson,
stated.