Buhari removes Baru, appoints Kyari as NNPC GMD – TheNigerialawyer

* Names 7 new operating officers for the state-owned oil
company

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari as
the new Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, bringing to an end the tenure of Maikanti Baru, as the
oil firm’s boss.

NNPC’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu
Ughamadu, who disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday morning, stated
that the President 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 May 13, 2018, as Nigeria’s National Representative to the
Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.

Buhari also directed that the new GMD and the newly appointed
Chief Operating Officers work with the current occupiers of the
various offices till July 7, 2019 towards a smooth transition on
July 8, 2019, when their appointments would take effect.

The corporation, however, stated that the appointment of Mr.
Farouk Garba Said (North West), who is replacing a retiring Chief
Operating Officer, is effective from June 28, 2019.

It outlined the newly appointed Chief Operating Officers to
include Mr. Roland Onoriode Ewubare (South-South) – Chief Operating
Officer, Upstream; Mustapha Yinusa Yakubu (North Central) – Chief
Operating Officer Refining and Petrochemicals; Yusuf Usman (North
East) – Chief Operating Officer, Gas and Power; and Lawrencia
Nwadiabuwa Ndupu (South East), Chief Operating Officer
Ventures.

Others include Umar Isa Ajiya (North West) – Chief Financial
Officer; Adeyemi Adetunji (South West) – Chief Operating Officer,
Downstream; and Farouk Garba Said (North West) – Chief Operating
Officer, Corporate Services.

Ughamadu stated that Baru had congratulated the new
appointees.

According to the corporation, Kyari is a quintessential crude
oil marketer with prerequisite certification and outfield pedigree
in petroleum economics and crude oil and gas trading.

It said that in the last 27 years, the new NNPC boss had
traversed the entire value chain of the petroleum industry, with
exceptional records of performance.

NNPC said under Kyari’s watch, the Crude Oil Marketing Division
had recorded noticeable transformation in the management and sales
of various Nigeria’s crude oil grades via an infusion of
transparency and automation of the processes.

Kyari would be the 19th Group Managing Director of the national
oil company.

NNPC recently witnessed the removal and replacements of some
senior officers from its workforce.

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