President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday
sacked the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, Mr. Andrew Yakubu.
The President, in a statement by his
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, named Dr.
Joseph Dawha as Yakubu’s replacement.
Abati also announced the appointment of
Mr. Anthony Ugonna Muoneke as the new Managing Director of the Nigeria
Petroleum Development Corporation.
Further shake-up in the NNPC as approved
by the President , according to the statement, saw Ms. Aisha Mata
Abdurrahman reassigned as the corporation’s Group Executive Director,
Commercial and Investment; while Dr. Attahiru B. Yusuf was named the
Group Executive Director, Business Development.
All the appointments take immediate effect.
The new GMD of the NNPC hails from Borno state.
He has served previously as the Group
Executive Director, Exploration and Production, NNPC and Managing
Director, Integrated Data Services Ltd, a subsidiary of the NNPC.
Muoneke, the new MD of the NPDC, hails from Anambra state.
Called to the Nigerian Bar in 1985, he
has over 29 years’ experience at both local and international levels in
the oil and gas as well as the energy and power sectors, including
serving as Executive Director, Finance and Administration, Niger Delta
Power Holding Company Limited.
Source:Punch Newspaper
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