Fremanb4:
https://ibrandtv.com/revealed-nnpc-have-6621-staff-strength-nationwide/

T4kbaba:

Case Closed! But NNPC lacks organization and coordination, why making advert for the positions not vacant initially or politics is being played! Nawa for this country ooo.

Biaso:
How did you come to the conclusion that there aren't any vacancies?

T4kbaba:


In a bid to end speculations over its staff strength, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed that it has 6,621 Nigerians as its staff currently, both in its headquarters and across all its subsidiaries, division and offices nationwide.

The NNPC also revealed that the 6,621 individuals comprise its total staff strength as at April 20, 2020. This meant that the recently employed 1,050 fresh graduates where captured, as their employment was concluded, February 2020.

This was contained in a document cited by iBrandTV, on Thursday, in Abuja.

The NNPC has 13 divisions/Strategic Business Units nationwide. However, the NNPC was silent on the states of origin of the staff and the number of contract staff it currently engages in the discharge of its duties and operations.

The document, which is part of NNPC’s compliance to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative’s (EITI) Open Data engagement, revealed that 81.7 per cent of the corporation’s workforce, comprising 5,410 individuals, were male, while 1,211 were women, representing 18.3 per cent of its total staff strength.

In addition, the document pointed out that the three moribund refineries — Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri refineries – have 1,898 staff, representing 28.7 per cent of NNPC Group’s total workforce.

Biaso:
In a bid to end speculation over it's staff strength, suddenly means they shouldn't recruit? Funny. Let me also take you up on the figures highlighted, I presume GTs are SS7 or 8? How come we have less than 1,050 on those levels, care to explain? You shouldn't just swallow everything you stumble across online, we are expected to make logical inferences and deductions, before arriving at certain conclusions. Cheers!

Based on that news, except the news is fake, forget any inference or deduction. It is cleared and simple, the news said as at April 2020, the corporation has reached its staff strength based on the figures provided and has also captured the new gts into the figures. Mind you, new gts will be placed on SS6. I still pray for EHs favor sha. Only God can make it happen for us.

T4kbaba:


In a bid to end speculations over its staff strength, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disclosed that it has 6,621 Nigerians as its staff currently, both in its headquarters and across all its subsidiaries, division and offices nationwide.

The NNPC also revealed that the 6,621 individuals comprise its total staff strength as at April 20, 2020. This meant that the recently employed 1,050 fresh graduates where captured, as their employment was concluded, February 2020.

This was contained in a document cited by iBrandTV, on Thursday, in Abuja.

The NNPC has 13 divisions/Strategic Business Units nationwide. However, the NNPC was silent on the states of origin of the staff and the number of contract staff it currently engages in the discharge of its duties and operations.

The document, which is part of NNPC’s compliance to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative’s (EITI) Open Data engagement, revealed that 81.7 per cent of the corporation’s workforce, comprising 5,410 individuals, were male, while 1,211 were women, representing 18.3 per cent of its total staff strength.

In addition, the document pointed out that the three moribund refineries — Kaduna, Port Harcourt and Warri refineries – have 1,898 staff, representing 28.7 per cent of NNPC Group’s total workforce.

Biaso:
Bro, the report said, 6,621 comprise of it's total staff strength, it doesn't indicate that, that is the required staff strength of NNPC. Read it again bro..

T4kbaba:

Case Closed! But NNPC lacks organization and coordination, why making advert for the positions not vacant initially or politics is being played! Nawa for this country ooo.

Biaso:
In a bid to end speculation over it's staff strength, suddenly means they shouldn't recruit? Funny. Let me also take you up on the figures highlighted, I presume GTs are SS7 or 8? How come we have less than 1,050 on those levels, care to explain? You shouldn't just swallow everything you stumble across online, we are expected to make logical inferences and deductions, before arriving at certain conclusions. Cheers!

Eyenkuzi:
MALUGA.We sight you. A guy that gave correct info way back. Please furnish us with some info

Victobriel:

Guys, EH recruitment will definitely see the light of the day.
NNPC had about 9000+ employees(true source from nnpc) before the 2019 recruitment. This figure is arguably inclusive of contract staff.

Pls note the following:

1. There wouldn't have been vacancy advert without vacancies or possible room for vacancies for the experienced hire
2. A lot have retired and many are still retiring
3. NNPC is still expanding
4. Do not think that people are getting employed through back doors. I'm not saying it's not possible. U can easily get into NNPC through internal advert position or public/external advert position as a permanent staff. Anything can happen if it's on a contract basis.
5. Possible things that can happen that EH recruitment does not to come to conclusion is for the list to be completely abandoned for reasons based known to the corporation, which sometimes may be political due to change of power. But glory be to God that MKK is still on track with what he met on ground.
6. You may wonder why the recruitment slowed after transition of power, yes, the new man onboard wanted to be satisfied with the process. So keep calm.
7. FG ban on recruitment is affecting NNPC as well. GT has already been completed before the ban. There is still hope for EH
8. The oil price is also a problem. However, government is trying it's best to ensure that the economy is not too bad, hence, frowns at loss of employments and also embraces openings for new employments.
9. For the team in charge of the forensic audit on the recent GT recruitment, who knows if this comes up in times like this, for the issue of EH to be mentioned?
10. Also note that there are a lot of interests in this EH recruitment. Hence the big shots won't allow this opportunity to slip their hands. This is now giving the common man whom God has destined to work in the corporation to have his way.
11. Also note that the people praying for the success of this recruitment are many, if at all, there is any against it because those that didn't get to interview level have long moved on with their lives.
12. At this point, I want the faithfuls here , whether Muslims or Christians to understand that nothing is impossible for God Almighty to do. He can change any situation. If we continue to call Him in one faith, God has no option than to answer our prayers. God knows that if we are successful, they are a lot of people that will be depending on us for survival. He knows our heart desires. He knows how to make us happy.
Please join HOOHA, TEKOA, and others for prayers. I'm in already. If God did wonderful things in the past, He can still do it again. He is the God of yesterday, today and forever. He is the God of all flesh. There is no searching of His understanding.

Cheer up guys. It will end in praise.

weoai:
Like every other major corporation in the world, the NNPC is adjusting to modern day realities as regards cost management and staff optimization. The vacancies of 2016 obviously may not be valid in 2020, so do not expect all those spaces to still be available. This is the reason why the EH recruitment has experienced delays.

Also know that the corporation has decided to ensure Units determine who they recruit based on the expedient need for that personnel, thus cost of recruitment of EHs is bourne by the Unit recruiting, hence a seeming reluctance internally to bring in midlevel hires who would cost more and not likely deliver as immediately as expected (from past experience). I believe true sources can verify this claim...

We can only pray we are deemed expedient by our future line managers to warrant a call-up.

Keep the faith my people, it will end in praise.

Biaso:
Bro, is this submission based on some info you got, or is it your personal opinion based on the Covid 19 situation and crude oil prices?

Obviously, it is his personal opinion, but come to think of it where are guys that keep giving us sauses... Jarus, panelyst etc, any update is welcomed.

Biaso:
Bro, is this submission based on some info you got, or is it your personal opinion based on the Covid 19 situation and crude oil prices?

weoai:
Like every other major corporation in the world, the NNPC is adjusting to modern day realities as regards cost management and staff optimization. The vacancies of 2016 obviously may not be valid in 2020, so do not expect all those spaces to still be available. This is the reason why the EH recruitment has experienced delays.

Also know that the corporation has decided to ensure Units determine who they recruit based on the expedient need for that personnel, thus cost of recruitment of EHs is bourne by the Unit recruiting, hence a seeming reluctance internally to bring in midlevel hires who would cost more and not likely deliver as immediately as expected (from past experience). I believe true sources can verify this claim...

We can only pray we are deemed expedient by our future line managers to warrant a call-up.

Keep the faith my people, it will end in praise.

Pastore1234:
Finally GT is over?

Fremanb4:
Press Release:

NNPC Says Professional Competence, Transparency, Accountability, National Spread are Bases for Employment, Management Progression in Corporation

The Nigerian National Corporation (NNPC) has explained the parametres for employment as well as career progression in the corporation, using the recently concluded Graduate Trainee employment process as well as top Management promotion exercise executed by the corporation as an illustration.

The National Oil company says unblemished academic competence, logical thinking, ability to engage meaningfully in problem solving in addition to federal character are key to becoming an employee of the corporation.

To progress in the Management cadre, professional competence, accountability and transparency as well as ensuring national spread in top management positions are critical factors that are not negotiable.

Explaining the parametres, NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, stated that the basic academic requirement for newly employed Graduate Trainees in the corporation is a minimum of a Second-Class Upper Division, or an Upper Credit for Higher National Diploma (HND) certificate holders. Alternatively, a candidate holding a Second Class Lower Division degree or an HND Lower Credit Diploma holder, must in addition have acquired a Master’s degree in a relevant field.

He said that was applicable in the last recruitment exercise where qualified applicants undertook computer-based test conducted by a neutral national examinations body, following which the best performers were further taken through a formal interview session to ensure their suitability.

Obateru stated that the end product of the rigorous exercise was the new set of employees who have shown a lot of promise since the beginning of the onboarding programme which started earlier this month including engagements with the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, and some members of top management of the corporation.

The NNPC spokesperson says the fairness in the appointment of the new employees was such that many of the new employees expressed astonishments securing employment in the National Oil Company without any godfather.

He relayed the testimonies of a few of the Graduate Trainees who marveled at the opportunities before them:

Oluwatobi Ayo Yusuf from Lagos: Thanked the NNPC for the vision of providing a level playing field for all the participants in the recruitment process, describing it as the most fair and transparent recruitment that he has ever participated in, in Nigeria.

Onianwa Vin-Kingsley: Described NNPC recruitment process as excellently remarkable and urged other private and government institutions to always take a cue from the NNPC in order to inspire confidence in Nigeria youths.

Onyeulo Ikenna, a First Class graduate of Chemical Engineering: said despite the rigorous online application process for the NNPC job which almost deterred him from applying, he was impressed that he was employed without knowing any godfather anywhere.

Enyi Ada, from Port Harcourt, Rivers State: said NNPC’s employment journey disappointed all her negativity about how recruitment processes were conducted in Nigeria, stressing that despite the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, the corporation was able to conclude the process seamlessly.

Bolarinwa Simeon, a Civil Engineer: Said life was willing to give you whatever you wanted, noting that the entire NNPC recruitment process was transparent and credible from the computer-based test to the interview.

Suleiman Mahmud: Explained that his journey to NNPC was miraculous as he applied on the last day of the application and after receiving his offer of appointment his sick mother recovered from her age-long ailment miraculously.

The 1,050 graduate trainees were recently recruited by the NNPC and assumed duty virtually on Monday 4 May, 2020, due to the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Country.

Obateru says the experiences of the long-time employees of NNPC are not dissimilar to those of the new intakes, adding that professional competence, adherence to the principle of transparency and accountability informed the recent top management appointment executed in the first week of March this year.

He further explained that the principle of federal character was also a factor in the progression of the newly appointees.

Throwing more light, Obateru stated that many top management officers of the corporation were moved to new positions while some were promoted based on their verifiable track records of performance, saying some Chief Operating Officers, Group General Managers and Managing Directors of subsidiaries were affected in what some industry analysts described as the most objective placement exercise in the recent history of the National Oil Company.

Topping the list of the changes, he said, was the re-deployment of the erstwhile Chief Operating Officer (COO), Upstream, Mr. Roland Ewubare, to the Ventures and Business Development Directorate as COO.
Under the arrangement, Ewubare, in the new order got an additional responsibility of business development, besides managing the group’s ventures.

Obateru stated that Ewubare would bring his competence to bear in the onerous task of laying the groundwork for the corporation to take up new business opportunities and challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 impasse. The new position would also see Ewubare traversing Downstream, Midstream and Upstream sectors to develop new ventures.

Prior to his promotion as COO, Upstream, Ewubare was the Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) between August 2017 and July 2019. He was also the Managing Director, Integrated Data Services Limited, an NNPC subsidiary, from August 2015 to August 2017.

Ewubare is from the South South region of the Country.

Obateru said Ewubare’s position as COO Upstream was taken over by Engr. Adeyemi Adetunji, erstwhile Chief Operating Officer in charge of Downstream directorate.

A first-class Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of Lagos, Adeyemi started his over 30 years career as a maintenance Engineer and later a project Engineer in Lever Brothers Nigeria Limited (Unilever).

Thereafter he joined Accenture, a management consultancy firm, where he rose to become a Partner, providing advisory services on a wide range of subjects for over 20 years.

He joined NNPC in January 2011 as the General Manager, Transformation Office – leading a team of NNPC and International Consultants to implement NNPC’s earlier developed corporate vision and strategic plans.

He is from the South West of the Country.

Obateru stated that the recent top management appointment also received affirmative action with the re-deployment of Ms. Lawrencia Ndupu to the Downstream. A Physicists and renowned explorationist, Laura, as she is fondly called by her colleagues, started her working career in NNPC in January 1986, now spanning over 32 years.

Through the years, she has held many key positions amongst which are Deputy Manager Geophysics at NAPIMS, Manager Exploration, Joint Venture Oil Operations Division, NAPIMS, and General Manger Operations, Commercial & Investment Directorate of NNPC. She had managed NNPC Oilfield Services Limited, a position she assumed since March 2016 before her recent appointment as Chief Operating Officer of the Ventures Directorate of NNPC which takes effect from 8th July, 2019.

She is from the South-East of the Country.

The changes was also spiced with the appointment of Mr. Bala Wunti, the erstwhile Managing Director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company as the new GGM of the National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS).

With a chain of experience spanning close to 30 years, Wunti who hailed from the North East, was the initiator of ‘Operation White,’ a system put in place to promote transparency and accountability in the distribution of petroleum products across the country, and is generally adjudged a perfect fit for the job.

Wunti, a thoroughbred Oil and Gas Industry professional, is a graduate of Chemistry from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, with an MBA in Marketing from the Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the same university.

The list also included Mr. Lawal Sade as the new Managing Director of the NNPC Trading Company, a subsidiary of corporation. Before then he was the MD of NIDAS, a shipping arm of the NNPC. Mr. Sade had been essentially a marketer in the last 20 years with impressive outcomes.

During his stint in NIDAS, he secured the admittance of NNPC into the prestigious Oil Company International Marine Forum (OCIMF) membership, a globally recognized shipping community. His ability to deliver on goals has gained NIDAS a lot of credibility whereby its employees, shareholders and counterparties now have faith in its capacity to grow.

Obateru stated that the exercise kept in place Mr. Adokiye Tombomieye, from the South-South, as Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing, a highly strategic position in the corporation.

The NNPC spokesperson explained that the beauty of the new wave of appointments in NNPC depicted a leadership of the corporation determined and bent on ensuring placement of square pegs in square holes, while not losing sight of geographical spread, in respect of staffing.

Dr. Kennie Obateru
Group General Manager
Group Public Affairs Division
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
Abuja.
24th May, 2020.

Fremanb4:
Press Release:

NNPC Says Professional Competence, Transparency, Accountability, National Spread are Bases for Employment, Management Progression in Corporation

The Nigerian National Corporation (NNPC) has explained the parametres for employment as well as career progression in the corporation, using the recently concluded Graduate Trainee employment process as well as top Management promotion exercise executed by the corporation as an illustration.

The National Oil company says unblemished academic competence, logical thinking, ability to engage meaningfully in problem solving in addition to federal character are key to becoming an employee of the corporation.

To progress in the Management cadre, professional competence, accountability and transparency as well as ensuring national spread in top management positions are critical factors that are not negotiable.

Explaining the parametres, NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, stated that the basic academic requirement for newly employed Graduate Trainees in the corporation is a minimum of a Second-Class Upper Division, or an Upper Credit for Higher National Diploma (HND) certificate holders. Alternatively, a candidate holding a Second Class Lower Division degree or an HND Lower Credit Diploma holder, must in addition have acquired a Master’s degree in a relevant field.

He said that was applicable in the last recruitment exercise where qualified applicants undertook computer-based test conducted by a neutral national examinations body, following which the best performers were further taken through a formal interview session to ensure their suitability.

Obateru stated that the end product of the rigorous exercise was the new set of employees who have shown a lot of promise since the beginning of the onboarding programme which started earlier this month including engagements with the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Mallam Mele Kyari, and some members of top management of the corporation.

The NNPC spokesperson says the fairness in the appointment of the new employees was such that many of the new employees expressed astonishments securing employment in the National Oil Company without any godfather.

He relayed the testimonies of a few of the Graduate Trainees who marveled at the opportunities before them:

Oluwatobi Ayo Yusuf from Lagos: Thanked the NNPC for the vision of providing a level playing field for all the participants in the recruitment process, describing it as the most fair and transparent recruitment that he has ever participated in, in Nigeria.

Onianwa Vin-Kingsley: Described NNPC recruitment process as excellently remarkable and urged other private and government institutions to always take a cue from the NNPC in order to inspire confidence in Nigeria youths.

Onyeulo Ikenna, a First Class graduate of Chemical Engineering: said despite the rigorous online application process for the NNPC job which almost deterred him from applying, he was impressed that he was employed without knowing any godfather anywhere.

Enyi Ada, from Port Harcourt, Rivers State: said NNPC’s employment journey disappointed all her negativity about how recruitment processes were conducted in Nigeria, stressing that despite the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, the corporation was able to conclude the process seamlessly.

Bolarinwa Simeon, a Civil Engineer: Said life was willing to give you whatever you wanted, noting that the entire NNPC recruitment process was transparent and credible from the computer-based test to the interview.

Suleiman Mahmud: Explained that his journey to NNPC was miraculous as he applied on the last day of the application and after receiving his offer of appointment his sick mother recovered from her age-long ailment miraculously.

The 1,050 graduate trainees were recently recruited by the NNPC and assumed duty virtually on Monday 4 May, 2020, due to the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic in the Country.

Obateru says the experiences of the long-time employees of NNPC are not dissimilar to those of the new intakes, adding that professional competence, adherence to the principle of transparency and accountability informed the recent top management appointment executed in the first week of March this year.

He further explained that the principle of federal character was also a factor in the progression of the newly appointees.

Throwing more light, Obateru stated that many top management officers of the corporation were moved to new positions while some were promoted based on their verifiable track records of performance, saying some Chief Operating Officers, Group General Managers and Managing Directors of subsidiaries were affected in what some industry analysts described as the most objective placement exercise in the recent history of the National Oil Company.

Topping the list of the changes, he said, was the re-deployment of the erstwhile Chief Operating Officer (COO), Upstream, Mr. Roland Ewubare, to the Ventures and Business Development Directorate as COO.
Under the arrangement, Ewubare, in the new order got an additional responsibility of business development, besides managing the group’s ventures.

Obateru stated that Ewubare would bring his competence to bear in the onerous task of laying the groundwork for the corporation to take up new business opportunities and challenges thrown up by the COVID-19 impasse. The new position would also see Ewubare traversing Downstream, Midstream and Upstream sectors to develop new ventures.

Prior to his promotion as COO, Upstream, Ewubare was the Group General Manager, National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) between August 2017 and July 2019. He was also the Managing Director, Integrated Data Services Limited, an NNPC subsidiary, from August 2015 to August 2017.

Ewubare is from the South South region of the Country.

Obateru said Ewubare’s position as COO Upstream was taken over by Engr. Adeyemi Adetunji, erstwhile Chief Operating Officer in charge of Downstream directorate.

A first-class Mechanical Engineering graduate of the University of Lagos, Adeyemi started his over 30 years career as a maintenance Engineer and later a project Engineer in Lever Brothers Nigeria Limited (Unilever).

Thereafter he joined Accenture, a management consultancy firm, where he rose to become a Partner, providing advisory services on a wide range of subjects for over 20 years.

He joined NNPC in January 2011 as the General Manager, Transformation Office – leading a team of NNPC and International Consultants to implement NNPC’s earlier developed corporate vision and strategic plans.

He is from the South West of the Country.

Obateru stated that the recent top management appointment also received affirmative action with the re-deployment of Ms. Lawrencia Ndupu to the Downstream. A Physicists and renowned explorationist, Laura, as she is fondly called by her colleagues, started her working career in NNPC in January 1986, now spanning over 32 years.

Through the years, she has held many key positions amongst which are Deputy Manager Geophysics at NAPIMS, Manager Exploration, Joint Venture Oil Operations Division, NAPIMS, and General Manger Operations, Commercial & Investment Directorate of NNPC. She had managed NNPC Oilfield Services Limited, a position she assumed since March 2016 before her recent appointment as Chief Operating Officer of the Ventures Directorate of NNPC which takes effect from 8th July, 2019.

She is from the South-East of the Country.

The changes was also spiced with the appointment of Mr. Bala Wunti, the erstwhile Managing Director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company as the new GGM of the National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS).

With a chain of experience spanning close to 30 years, Wunti who hailed from the North East, was the initiator of ‘Operation White,’ a system put in place to promote transparency and accountability in the distribution of petroleum products across the country, and is generally adjudged a perfect fit for the job.

Wunti, a thoroughbred Oil and Gas Industry professional, is a graduate of Chemistry from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, with an MBA in Marketing from the Tafawa Balewa University in Bauchi and a Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the same university.

The list also included Mr. Lawal Sade as the new Managing Director of the NNPC Trading Company, a subsidiary of corporation. Before then he was the MD of NIDAS, a shipping arm of the NNPC. Mr. Sade had been essentially a marketer in the last 20 years with impressive outcomes.

During his stint in NIDAS, he secured the admittance of NNPC into the prestigious Oil Company International Marine Forum (OCIMF) membership, a globally recognized shipping community. His ability to deliver on goals has gained NIDAS a lot of credibility whereby its employees, shareholders and counterparties now have faith in its capacity to grow.

Obateru stated that the exercise kept in place Mr. Adokiye Tombomieye, from the South-South, as Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing, a highly strategic position in the corporation.

The NNPC spokesperson explained that the beauty of the new wave of appointments in NNPC depicted a leadership of the corporation determined and bent on ensuring placement of square pegs in square holes, while not losing sight of geographical spread, in respect of staffing.

Dr. Kennie Obateru
Group General Manager
Group Public Affairs Division
Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC)
Abuja.
24th May, 2020.

Fremanb4:
I still believe there are spaces to be filled with the recent management promotions and the ageing workforce. However, we should continue to remind them on their Twitter and Facebook page. Those with genuine info should please update us, the silence is really killing.