Fresh Management Shake-up In NNPC As Two COOs Leave

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced new appointments as part of what it called ongoing efforts to strengthen and reposition the corporation for greater efficiency, transparency and profitability.
 
 
Mr. Adokiye Tombomieye, the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division (COMD), has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer (COO), Upstream while Mr. Mohammed Abdulkabir Ahmed, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company (NGMC), has been appointed as the new Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, following the retirement of  Engr. Farouk Garba Sa’id, last week.
 
 A release by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, on Sunday,  stated that the change witnessed the redeployment of Engr.Adeyemi Adetunji, the Chief Operating Officer, Upstream, to the Ventures & Business Development Directorate as COO, a position left by Mr. Roland Onoriode Ewubare, who  retired last week.
 
The top-level staff movement also affected Sir. Billy Okoye who has been redeployed from the NNPC Downstream Company, NNPC Retail Limited, as Managing Director, to replace Mr. 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.
 
The statement  further said that similarly, Mr. Usman Farouk, Executive Director Asset Management and Technical Services at the NGMC took over from Ahmed as Managing Director
 
 
The release also explained that President Buhari had accepted the resignation of Mr. 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 the President 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 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).