The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, has announced new appointments and redeployments in the National Oil Company.
It is part of the ongoing efforts to strengthen and reposition the NNPC for greater efficiency, transparency and profitability.
The Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division (COMD), Adokiye Tombomieye, has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer (COO), Upstream, while the Managing Director of the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company (NGMC), Mohammed Abdulkadir Ahmed, has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services. His appointment is following the retirement of Engr. Farouk Garba Sa’id, last week.
A statement issued by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Kennie Obateru, stated that the change also witnessed the redeployment of Engr. Adeyemi Adetunji, the Chief Operating Officer, Upstream, to the Ventures & Business Development Directorate as COO, a position left by Roland Onoriode Ewubare, who voluntary retired last week.
The top-level staff movement also affected Billy Okoye, who has been redeployed from the NNPC Downstream Company, NNPC Retail Limited, as Managing Director, to replace Tombomieye as the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division; while Mrs. Elizabeth Aliyuda, the General Manager, Sales and Marketing NNPC Retail Limited, takes over from Sir Okoye as Managing Director.
Similarly, Mr. Usman Farouk, Executive Director Asset Management and Technical Services at the NGMC takes over from Ahmed as Managing Director.
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The statement also explained that President Muhammadu Buhari has accepted the resignation of Roland Ewubare, who was the immediate past Chief Operating Officer, Ventures and New Business Directorate of the National Oil Company, while the retirement of the immediate past Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, Engr. Farouk Garba Said, had also received the approval of President Mohammadu Buhari, who thanked the two former COOs for their meritorious service to the corporation.
Speaking on the development, the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Mallam Mele Kyari, said the new appointments would enable the corporation to live up to the expectation of her shareholders, Nigerians, and give impetus to the ongoing restructuring within the Corporation, which, he said, was in line with the corporate vision of Transparency, Accountability & Performance Excellence, TAPE.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
