{"id":86249,"date":"2023-11-28T04:37:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/?p=86249"},"modified":"2023-11-28T04:37:28","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T03:37:28","slug":"tinubu-keeps-kyari-as-nnpcl-gceo-appoints-akinyelure-as-board-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/tinubu-keeps-kyari-as-nnpcl-gceo-appoints-akinyelure-as-board-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Keeps Kyari As NNPCL GCEO, Appoints Akinyelure As Board Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Pius Akinyelure as the Non-Executive Board Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and also retained Mele Kyari as the organisation\u2019s Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Monday statement by Tinubu\u2019s spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said the duo is part of the new board and management of the NNPCL.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Their appointment, which is in compliance with Section 59 (2) of the Petroleum Industry Act, 2021, takes effect from December 1, 2023, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apart from Kyari and Akinyelure, other members and board of the management include: Alhaji Umar Isa Ajiya \u2014 Chief Financial Officer; Mr. Ledum Mitee \u2014 Non-Executive Director; Mr. Musa Tumsa \u2014 Non-Executive Director; Mr. Ghali Muhammad \u2014 Non-Executive Director; Prof. Mustapha Aliyu \u2014 Non-Executive Director; Mr. David Ogbodo \u2014 Non-Executive Director and Ms. Eunice Thomas \u2014 Non-Executive Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tinubu also approved the appointment of two permanent secretaries for the Federal Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While Mr. Okokon Ekanem Udo was nominated as the former\u2019s permanent secretary, Amb. Gabriel Aduda is for the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Tinubu anticipates the fullest measure of compliance with the performance-driven and results-oriented mandate of his Renewed Hope administration in the implementation of energy policy that will monetize all available oil and gas resources of today while paving the way for the total exploitation of new and cleaner energy sources of tomorrow by this distinguished team,\u201d Ajuri said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Bola Tinubu has appointed Pius Akinyelure as the Non-Executive Board Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) and also retained Mele Kyari as the organisation\u2019s Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO). A Monday statement by Tinubu\u2019s spokesman Ajuri Ngelale said the duo is part of the new board and management of the NNPCL. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,44],"tags":[6699,2500],"class_list":["post-86249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-nnpcl","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86251,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86249\/revisions\/86251"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}