The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has announced the appointment of a new eight-member senior management team tasked with overseeing the affairs of the company’s operations and strategic direction.

It also reshuffled key management positions to strengthen its operational efficiency.

A statement by the company’s spokesman, Olufemi Soneye, disclosed the latest development on Friday.

The team, which will be headed by the GCEO, Mr Bashir Ojulari, has Rowland Ewubare as Group Chief Operating Officer, Adedapo Segun as Group Chief Financial Officer, and Olalekan Ogunleye as Executive Vice President of Gas and Power & New Energy.


Mr Isiyaku Abdullahi, who was appointed Executive Vice President of Downstream in November last year, has been replaced by Mumuni Dangazau in the same role.

The company also appointed Sophia Mbakwe as Executive Vice President Business Services; and Adesua Dozie, as Company Secretary & Chief Legal Officer.

It added that all appointments are with immediate effect.

The statement read, “Following the appointment of the Group Chief Executive Officer and Board of Directors, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has announced the appointment of a new eight-man Senior Management Team on Friday.

“The team, which will be headed by the GCEO, Mr Bashir Bayo Ojulari, has Rowland Ewubare as Group Chief Operating Officer; Adedapo Segun as Group Chief Financial Officer; and Olalekan Ogunleye as Executive Vice President of Gas, Power & New Energy.

“Other members of the team are: Udy Ntia as Executive Vice President Upstream; Mumuni Dangazau as Executive Vice President of Downstream; Sophia Mbakwe as Executive Vice President of Business Services; and Adesua Dozie as Company Secretary & Chief Legal Officer.

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“All appointments are with immediate effect.”

Meanwhile, the shareholders of the national oil firm have approved the names and portfolios of the new management team of the company that would be submitted to the Corporate Affairs Commission.

The move is in line with the provisions of the Petroleum Industry Act.

A copy of the resolution obtained by our correspondent showed that the submission of the names of the new NNPC management was done through a resolution that was signed by the shareholders of the company.


The shareholders are the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.

The resolution reads, “We, the undersigned, being all the shareholders of the Company, who at the date of this resolution are entitled to attend and vote at the general meetings of the Company, signify our assent to the passing of the resolutions set out below and agree that for all purposes, the said resolutions shall be valid and effectual as if same had been passed at a general meeting of the Company duly convened and held.

“That the Board of Directors of the Company be and is hereby authorised to do all such things including without limitation to signing such documents, directing such committees or person(s), if any, as may be required by law and the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company to give effect to the resolutions.

“That the company secretary is hereby authorised to make all requisite filings at the Corporate Affairs Commission.”

President Bola Tinubu on Wednesday announced the reconstitution of the NNPC team which saw the replacement of the NNPCL board chairman, Chief Pius Akinyelure, and all other board members appointed in November 2023.

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I think the President is further entrenching bad precedent by appointing only us Yorubas into juicy positions. He should be more mature than that. This is not a characteristic of a nationalist or stateman

When northerners were in power and calling themselves Born to Rule, we all thought it was man at its nadir and the most basic way a man can describe himself.

We or you the so-called civilised should be more mature.

Aren't we going to issue indigeneship to people who have stayed with us to 10 years. This is 2025 and a new Nigeria is supposed to be emerging, not the one based on parochialism.

Half a word, they say, is enough for the wise.

I trust my President, he knows how to find the best people with competence to do a great job.

Meanwhile, nobody should come here to cry nepotism. When GEJ was sidelining Yoruba and appointing his fellow ijaw and other tribes, all of you were dancing and singing.

BTW, if baba wey no well give una appointment, una go collect?

These northerners especially under Buhari turned NNPC into Northern Nigeria Petroleum Company. Just looting spree while fixing their own into juicy position regardless of how incompetent they are. Just like what CBN did there's need for a thorough house cleaning in NNPC. I hope the touchlight will soon be beamed on that moribund refineries especially the one in Kaduna. The refinery workers over there just keep being paid humongous amount despite doing nothing.

U northerners should be shameless.. u don't produce a litre of crude oil yet u work for nnpcl..

Everything is a lesson, next election one will think well before electing a political party aspirant.
Good morals can't be faked. Wicked people are elected by large numbers of wicked people.

All I know is that 2027 will be fierce. If Yoruba lokan has made the economy viable, there will be less noise, but Tinubu and histram has destroyed every fabric of this country, all in the name of unrealistic reforms, but noise makers are praising him on, Nlfpmod.

I know everyone is rushing to check names. Nigeria can never be one