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Press Release:

@NNPCgroup Gets New GMD, Seven Chief Operating Officers...New Appointees to Work with Current Office Holders till 7th July 2019

President @MBuhari has appointed Mr. Mele Kolo Kyari @mkkyari as the new Group Managing Director of the @NNPCgroup.

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2. A release today in Abuja by the NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs, Mr. @NduUghamadu, stated that President @MBuhari also appointed alongside Kyari, seven new Chief Operating Officers.

3. Until his new appointment, @mkkyari, a geologist, was Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division of @NNPCgroup and also doubled, since 13th May, 2018, as Nigeria’s National Representative to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC.

4. President @MBuhari has directed that the New GMD and the newly appointed COOs work with the current occupiers of the various offices till 7th July, 2019 towards a smooth transition on 8thJuly 2019 when their appointments would take effect to ensure a smooth transition...

5. ...However, the appointment of Mr. Farouk Garba Said (North West), who is replacing a retiring Chief Operating Officer, is effective from 28th June, 2019.

The newly appointed Chief Operating Officers are:

6. The newly appointed COOs are:
1. Mr. Roland Onoriode Ewubare (S/South) – COO Upstream
2. Engr. Mustapha Yinusa Yakubu (N/ Central) – COO Refining & Petrochemicals
3. Engr. Yusuf Usman (N/East) - COO, Gas & Power
4.    Ms. Lawrencia Nwadiabuwa Ndupu (S/East), COO Ventures

6b. 5.   Mr. Umar Isa Ajiya (N/West) - Chief Financial Officer

6.   Engr. Adeyemi Adetunji (S/West) - COO, Downstream and

7.   Mr. Farouk Garba Said (N/West) - COO, Corporate Services.

7. @Ughamadu stated in the release that NNPC Group Managing Director, @DrMKBaru, had congratulated the new appointees.

8. Mallam @mkkyari is a quintessential crude oil marketer with prerequisite certification and outfield pedigree in Petroleum Economics and crude oil and gas trading.

9. In the last 27 years he had traversed the entire value chain of the Petroleum Industry, with exceptional records of performance.

10. Under his watch, the Crude Oil Marketing Division has recorded noticeable transformation in the management and sales of the various Nigeria’s crude oil grades via an infusion of transparency and automation of the processes, the release by the @NNPCgroup spokesperson, stated.

11. @mkkyari would be the 19th Group Managing Director of the National Oil Company.

NDU UGHAMADU
Group General Manager
Group Public Affairs Division
NNPC, Abuja.
20th June, 2019.