President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed a new Group Managing Director, GMD, for the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
He is a geologist, Mele Kolo Kyari.
His appointment will take effect on July 8, 2019.
The announcement was made on Thursday in a statement issued in Abuja by the NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs, Ndu Ughamadu.
He stated too that the president appointed seven new Chief Operating Officers.
Kyari was until his current appointment, Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division of NNPC.
He was at the same time, since May 13, 2018, Nigeria’s National Representative to the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
Ughamadu stated that the president directed that the New GMD and the newly appointed Chief Operating Officers work with those currently occupying the posts till July 7, 2019.
That, he said, was to ensure a smooth transition on July 8, 2019 when their appointments would take effect.
The appointment of Farouk Garba Said (North West), who is replacing a retiring Chief Operating Officer will take effect from June 28, 2019.
The newly appointed Chief Operating Officers are:
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
Lawrencia Nwadiabuwa Ndupu (South East), Chief Operating Officer Ventures
Umar Isa Ajiya (North West) – Chief Financial Officer
Engr. Adeyemi Adetunji (South West) – Chief Operating Officer, Downstream and
Farouk Garba Said (North West) – Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services.
NNPC Group Managing Director, Dr. Maikanti Baru, is said to have congratulated the new appointees.
Kyari is described as 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.
