SOUTH OWNS THE OIL BUT NORTH IS IN CONTROL: KYARI APPOINTED CHAIRMAN NNPC
President Muhammadu Buhari has
appointed Mr Mele Kolo Kyari as the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian
National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).
The corporation disclosed this in
a statement released by the NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public
Affairs, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu,in Abuja, on Thursday.
He said that the appointment will
take effect from July 8, 2019 adding that the president also
appointed alongside Kyari, seven new Chief Operating Officers.
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.
The statement noted that
President Buhari had 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.
Other officers appointed by
Buahri include Mr. Roland Onoriode Ewubare (South-South), Chief Operating
Officer, Upstream, Engr. Mustapha Yinusa Yakubu (North Central) – Chief
Operating Officer Refining and Petrochemicals and Engr. Yusuf Usman
(North East) – Chief Operating Officer, Gas and Power
Also, 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.
The NNPC Group Managing Director,
Dr. Maikanti Baru, in the statement had congratulated the new appointees.
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.
Kyari would be the
19th Group Managing Director of the National Oil Company.
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