President Muhammadu Buhari has announced the appointment of
Senator Margret Chuba Okadigbo as chairman of the Board and Management of the
Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited.
A statement by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the
President on Media and Publicity, confirmed the appointment on Wednesday, in
Abuja, noting that it is in accordance with the power vested in President under
Section 59(2) of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021.
Besides Senator Okadigbo as Chairman (South East), other
members of the Board includes Mele Kolo Kyari, as Chief Executive Officer, and
Umar I. Ajiya, as Chief Financial Officer.
Other Board Members are; Dr Tajudeen Umar (North East), Mrs
Lami O. Ahmed (North Central), Mallam Mohammed Lawal (North West), Engr. Henry
Obih (South East), Barrister Constance Harry Marshal (South South), and Chief
Pius Akinyelure(South West).
The appointments take effect from the date of the
incorporation of the NNPC Limited.
Also appointed are Executive Commissioners of the Nigerian
Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission. They are: Dr Nuhu Habib (Kano),
Executive Commissioner, Development and Production, Dr Kelechi Onyekachi
Ofoegbu (Imo), Executive Commissioner, Economic Regulations and Strategic Planning,
Capt. Tonlagha Roland John (Delta), Executive Commissioner, Health, Safety,
Environment and Community, and Jide Adeola (Kogi), Executive Commissioner,
Corporate Services and Administration.
Earlier appointed are the Board Chairman, CEO, Executive
Commissioner, Exploration and Acreage Management, and Executive Commissioner,
Finance and Accounts.
New appointees at the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream
Petroleum Regulatory Authority are Francis Alabo Ogaree (Rivers), Executive
Director, Hydrocarbon Processing, Mustapha Lamorde (Adamawa), Executive
Director, Health, Safety, Environment and Community, Mansur Kuliya (Kano),
Executive Director, Midstream and Downstream Gas Infrastructure Fund, Bashir
Sadiq (Sokoto), Executive Director, Corporate Services and Administration, and
Dr Zainab Gobir (Kwara), Executive Director, Economic Regulations and Strategic
Planning.
They join the Board Chairman, Executive Director, Downstream
Systems, Storage and Retailing Infrastructure, the CEO, and Executive Director,
Finance and Accounts, who had earlier been appointed.
For Midstream and Downstream Infrastructure Fund, new
Council Members are; Mr Effiong Abia (Akwa Ibom), Bobboi Ahmed (Adamawa), and
Engr. Abdullahi Bukar (Katsina).
It will be recalled that President Buhari had last September
written the Senate on the administrative structure amendments to the Petroleum
Industry Act, which included appointment of Non-Executive Board Members,
removal of the Ministries of Petroleum and Finance from the Board of the two
new institutions, and appointment of Executive Directors.
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