President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday evening fired the managing directors of the subsidiaries of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and retired 38 top management staff of the firm, trimming down their number from 122 to 83.
The President also approved four new directorates for the national oil corporation and appointed four directors to man them.
Buhari further allowed the firm to recruit 12 private sector players into its management cadre to help it jump-start a new business outlook to enhance its operational environment as a profit-driven business and wean the firm from its present civil service orientation.
The four new directorates are Exploration and Production, Finance and Services, Refining and Technology, and Commercial and Investment.
As the restructuring at the corporation went on, our correspondent observed that a good number of staff members of the oil firm stayed back on Tuesday evening, even after closing for the day’s job.
Many of them were spotted discussing in hushed tones, while a few visibly tensed workers made it clear that there was fear of job losses in the air at the NNPC, going by the downsizing of the executive positions from eight to four and the trimming of top management staff from 122 to 83.
Saturday PUNCH had reported exclusively that the approval of directorates and managers to occupy the positions were delayed by the President.
This, however, was confirmed by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ohi Alegbe, in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
The corporation, in the statement, said, “The management of the NNPC has appointed four new group executive directors to man the four new directorates that have been approved by the Presidency.”
The new Group Managing Director, Dr. Emmanuel Kachikwu, disclosed that the new appointments were in line with the Federal Government’s aspiration to transform the corporation into a lean, efficient, business-focused, transparent and accountable national oil company in keeping with international best practices.
The appointments which were approved by President Muhammadu Buhari include Dr. Maikanti Baru, Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production; Mr. Isiaka Abdulrazaq, Group Executive Director, Finance and Services; Mr. Dennis Nnamdi Ajulu, Group Executive Director, Refining and Technology and Dr. Babatunde Victor Adeniran, Group Executive Director, Commercial and Investment.
The statement noted that a new company secretary/leg
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