PMB APPOINTS MARGRET CHUBAOKADIGBO NNPC BOARD  CHAIRMAN

Oru Leonard

President Muhammadu Buhari has appointed the Board and Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, Limited.

A statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina named the chairman of the board as Margret Chuba Okadigbo (South East) and Mele Kolo Kyari as the Chief Executive Officer while Umar Ajiya is appointed the Chief Financial Officer.

Other Board Members are; Tajudeen Umar (North East), Lami O. Ahmed (North Central), Mohammed Lawal (North West), Henry Obih (South East), Constance Harry Marshal (South South), and Pius Akinyelure(South West).

Also appointed are Executive Commissioners of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission includihg: Nuhu Habib (Kano), Executive Commissioner, Development and Production, Kelechi Onyekachi Ofoegbu (Imo), Executive Commissioner, Economic Regulations and Strategic Planning, Tonlagha Roland John (Delta), Executive Commissioner, Health, Safety, Environment and Community, and Jide Adeola (Kogi), Executive Commissioner, Corporate Services and Administration.

According to the statement, the appointments which are in accordance with the power vested in the president under Section 59(2) of the Petroleum Industry Act 2021, take effect from the date of the incorporation of the NNPC Limited.

Those earlier appointed are the Board Chairman, CEO, Executive Commissioner, Exploration and Acreage Management, and Executive Commissioner, Finance and Accounts.

The 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 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 had earlier been appointed. For Midstream and Downstream Infrastructure Fund, new Council Members are; Effiong Abia (Akwa Ibom), Bobboi Ahmed (Adamawa), and 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.

(Energy Frontiers)