The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced new appointments and redeployments in the National Oil Company, as part of ongoing efforts to strengthen and reposition NNPC for greater efficiency, transparency and profitability.
Adokiye Tombomieye, the group general manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division (COMD), has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer (COO), Upstream while Mohammed Abdulkabir Ahmed, the managing director of the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company (NGMC), has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, following the retirement of Farouk Garba Sa’id, 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 Elizabeth Aliyuda, the general manager, Sales and Marketing NNPC Retail Limited, takes over from Okoye as managing director.
Similarly,. Usman Farouk, Executive Director Asset Management and Technical Services at the NGMC takes over from Ahmed as Managing Director.
The release also explained that President 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, Farouk Garba Said had also received the approval of the President who thanked the two former COOs for their meritorious service to the corporation.
Mele Kyari ,group managing director of the corporation while speaking on the development, said the new appointments would enable the corporation live up to the expectation of tts 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 and Performance Excellence (TAPE).