The Association also vowed to resist any attempt by non-executive officials of the NNPC to meddle with the affairs of the Corporation
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According to available information, Baru, on assumption of office, laid bare his commitment to consolidate the NNPC Group, especially its trading arm, for efficiency and profitability
They met in Abuja at the ongoing Nigerian Economic Summit at the Energy Policy Committee session
I say this for two reasons. When Dr. Ibe Kachikwu was appointed the GMD in charge of the NNPC and as Minister of State in 2015, it looked like a dream appointment and an extra-ordinary career point for him but not necessarily for the sector. Dr Kachikwu did not hesitate to assert himself and in his attempt to reform the NNPC, one of the victims was a certain Dr Maikanti Baru, most senior Executive Director at the NNPC, who was redeployed under the new dispensation as a Technical Adviser in the Ministry of Petroleum. This was like sending Baru to desert territory of the oil and gas sector. How the same Baru eventually got rehabilitated as GMD of the NNPC, to work with the same man who had tried to marginalize him within the system was a poor demonstration of an understanding of human psychology.
According to the newspaper, Buhari is weighing the several options before him in dealing with Kachikwu over his allegation against the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr. Maikanti Baru
Agbakoba said none of the persons appointed to fill the nine positions is from the states that make up the South East geopolitical zone
Kachikwu had, in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, dated August 30, 2017, accused Baru of lack of adherence to due process in the award of NNPC contracts
The workers warned that they will stop non-executive officials from using top management positions in the National Oil Company to settle cronies at the detriment of dedicated staff.
The calls followed the face-off between the two heads of critical government ministry and parastatal, with Kachikwu accusing Baru of unilaterally awarding $25 billion contracts and employments
The NNPC disclosed this in Abuja on Sunday in a statement by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Ndu Ughamadu.
It was a huge surprise to many Nigerians last Thursday when Wike, in company with the former Peoples Democratic Party Acting National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, stormed the Government House, Yenagoa. After the customary photo ops, Governor Dickson and his guests met behind closed-doors for about three hours. Both governors emerged from the meeting hugging each other right before the inquisitive Government House correspondents, whom they later addressed
Baru showed up in Osinbajo’s office in the Presidential Villa a few hours after the Minister of Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, concluded a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari
The minister had in a memo leaked to the media on Tuesday informed Buhari that the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, was disrespectful to him
Indeed, in anticipation of vacancies that would arise from retiring senior executives of NNPC, I wrote the GMD a letter requesting that we both have prior review of the proposed appointments…. Needless to say that, not only did he not give my letter the courtesy of a reply, he proceeded to announce the appointments without consultation or Board concurrence.
In a statement signed by Its National Secretary, Danladi Pasali, on Wednesday in Abuja, IPMAN said the letter by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, was an act of distraction to the achievements of the NNPC
The Minister had in the leaked letter accused Baru of insubordination and called for cancellation of the recent appointments in the NNPC
In a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, which became public on Tuesday, the Minister said Baru did not consult him or the Board of the NNPC before awarding the contracts
EFCC detectives probing the disappearance of the cash have traced eight suspected assets in Dubai, United Arab Emirate to a former Managing Director of the Pipelines and Product Marketing Company, Haruna Momoh
The State Government at a press conference jointly addressed by officials of the State as well as members of the Association of Maritime Truck Owners at the Bagauda Kaltho Press Centre in Alausa, regretted that the incessant traffic bottleneck had impacted negatively on the commercial activities of the citizenry, adding that the directive would be enforced to eliminate the current hardship being faced by motorists
Those already on trial over the alleged fraud are an oil mogul and ally to the ex-Minister, Jide Omokore; former Managing Director of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, Victor Briggs; former Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Abiye Membere; former Manager, Planning and Commercial of the NNPC, David Mbanefo