Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production,
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mr. Abiye
Membere, and appointed five new ones to fill existing
vacancies.
According to a statement by the Special Adviser to the
President on Media and Publicity,
Dr. Reuben Abati, the
new appointees and their portfolios are Mr. Ian Udoh,
Group Executive Director, Refining and Petrochemicals;
Dr. Dan Efebo, Group Executive Director, Corporate
Services; and Ms. Aisha Abdurrahman, Group Executive
Director, Business Development.
Others are Mr. Adebayo Ibirogba, Group Executive
Director, Engineering and Technical; and Dr. Joseph
Dawha, Acting Group Executive Director, Exploration and
Production.
Abati said the appointments took immediate effect.
Among the GEDs, the one in charge of the Exploration
and Production is one of the most influential in the
hierarchy of the NNPC because the department is
responsible for producing the crude oil that is the
mainstay of the Nigerian economy.
It was gathered that some of the old GEDs had retired
from the corporation without the government filling their
positions, while some served in acting capacities.
For instance, the former GED, Refining and
Petrochemicals, Mr. Anthony Ogbuigwe, and GED,
Business Development, Mr. Aminu Babakusa, were said
to have retired from the services of the NNPC.
The former acting GEDs, Corporate Services and
Engineering and Technical were replaced with
substantive directors.
Those that retained their portfolios are the GEDs,
Commerce and Investment, Dr. Attahir Yusuf; Finance
and Accounts, Mr. Bernard Otti; Gas and Power, Dr.
David Ige; and Comapny Secretary/Legal Adviser,
Anthony Madichie.
Udoh, according to the statement, is a native of Akwa
Ibom State and has been the Managing Director of the
Port Harcourt Refining and Petrochemicals Company
Limited since November 2012.
He has considerable experience of managing the
nation's refineries, having previously held the position of
Executive Director, Operations, at both the Kaduna
Refining and Petrochemicals Company Limited and the
PHRPC.
In addition, Udoh had previously served as a general
manager in the Refining and Petrochemicals Directorate
of NNPC.
Efebo, who hails from Bayelsa State, was until the latest
appointment the Group General Manager in charge of the
NNPC's Human Resources Division. He was previously
General Manager, Human Resources, Brass LNG.
Abdurrahman is a native of Kogi State and was the
Managing Director, Nikorma, NNPC's shipping subsidiary.
She also served as Managing Director of Hyson, an NNPC
trading subsidiary; and as Executive Director (Services),
Pipelines and Products Marketing Company.
Ibirogba, a chemical engineer, until now was the Group
General Manager, Engineering, NNPC's Engineering and
Technology Directorate, and hails from Ogun State.
He served at various times as General Manager (New
Business), General Manager (Gas Development), and
Group General Manager, Greenfield Refineries.
In 2010, Ibirogba became the first African to be elected
to the Board of Directors of the World LP Gas
Association.
Dawha, who replaces Membere as Group Executive
Director, Exploration and Production, was previously the
Managing Director of Integrated Data Services Limited.
He is an indigene of Borno State and has served the
corporation over the years in various capacities in the
upstream and downstream sectors of the industry.
Meanwhile, the Managing Director, Nigerian Liquefied
Natural Gas, Mr. Babs Omotowa, on Wednesday said the
firm paid N220bn as tax on its operational profit in 2013.
According to him, the firm prides itself as the biggest tax
payer and gas income earner in the country.
Omotowa said this in Abuja at the inauguration of the
company's university support programme.
"Our corporate income tax will exceed N220bn per
annum, which is by far the highest in Nigeria and sub-
Saharan Africa," he said.
He added that the NLNG had also commercialised over
four trillion cubic feet of natural gas to lead the country's
aspiration for flare reduction at oil production sites.
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