The new Group Managing Director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, has announced the appointment of four new Group Executive Directors, GEDs, to run the four new Directorates that were approved by President Muhammadu Buhari.
It will
be recalled that following the compulsory retirement of the former eight GEDs
on August 5, the NNPC Directorates were pruned to four.
The appointments
came as all the subsidiary Chief Executive Officers, CEOs, were also fired and
replaced immediately. It also makes good President Buhari’s promise of complete
overhaul of the corporation that has been linked with so much corruption.
The
development also confirms Vanguard’s earlier report that the Strategic
Business Units of subsidiaries’ CEOs were originally meant to go with the
former eight GEDs, but the decision was stepped down for a later date.
In a
statement from the NNPC, yesterday, Kachikwu was quoted as saying that the new
appointments are in line with the Federal Government’s aspiration to transform
the corporation into a lean, efficient, business-focused, transparent and
accountable national oil company in keeping with international best practices.
To this
end, the NNPC top management staff cadre has also been trimmed from 122 to 83,
as 38 of them are to proceed on compulsory retirements.
New
appointments
In
addition to the four new GEDs, a total of 15 new appointments were announced by
the NNPC with 12 of them coming from outside the fold.
The NNPC
said the 12 were appointed “in line with the aspiration to reposition the
corporation … to jump-start a new business outlook to enhance the operational
environment as a profit-driven business as against the current civil service
orientation.”
The new
Group Executive Directors that will head the four Directorates are: Dr.
Maikanti Baru, Group Executive Director, Exploration & Production; Mr.
Isiaka Abdulrazaq,Group Executive Director, Finance & Services; Mr Dennis
Nnamdi Ajulu, Group Executive Director, Refining & Technology; and, Dr.
Babatunde Victor Adeniran, Group Executive Director, Commercial &
Investment (outside the fold).
Furthermore,
Mr. Chidi Momah is now the Group General Manager, Company Secretary & Legal
Adviser. Momah, one of the 12 from outside NNPC until his appointment, was the
Executive General Manager, Government Relations & Communications, Total
Upstream Companies in Nigeria.
For the
Strategic Business Units are: Mrs. Esther Nnamdi Ogbue, Managing Director,
Pipelines and Products Marketing Company, PPMC; Mr Chinedu Ezeribe, Managing
Director, Warri Refinning & Petrochemicals Company, WRPC (outside the
fold); Mr. Babatunde Bakare, Managing Director, Nigerian Gas Company (NGC); Mr.
Inuwa Ibrahim Waya; Managing Director, Hyson (outside the fold); Mr. Abubakar
Mai-Bornu, Managing Director, Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, NPDC
(outside the fold); Mr. Ladipo Fagbola, Managing Director, NNPC Retail.
Others
are Mr. Rowland Ewubare, Managing Director, Integrated Data Services Ltd, IDSL
(outside the fold); Mr. Modupe Bammeke, Managing Director, NNPC Properties
(outside the fold); Mr. Abdulkadir Saidu, Managing Director, Duke Oil
(outside the fold) and,Mr. Dafe Sejebor, Group General Manager, Nigerian
Petroleum Investment Management Services, NAPIMS.
Vanguard
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