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NPDC Gets New MD as 11 Retire from NNPC

- Peter Uzoho with agency report ECONOMY

The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporatio­n (NNPC) has appointed Mr. Yusuf Usman as the Managing Director of the Nigerian Petroleum Developmen­t Company Limited (NPDC).

He is to replace Yusuf Shimingah Matashi, who retires on 17th July, 2019. The appointmen­t becomes effective on July 17th.

Until the appointmen­t, Usman was the Group General Manager/STA to the Group Managing Director of the NNPC.

Also, the NNPC has explained that the retirement of 11 of its senior management staff and others from its subsidiari­es as well as the redeployme­nt of 19 others were part of its normal replacemen­t and backfill process.

A top source at the Corporatio­n who disclosed this in a chat with The Whistler, described as fallacious, the insinuatio­n that the exercise was lopsided.

In all, 30 staff were affected by both the statutory retirement­s and redeployme­nt.

A list of the staff that would statutory retire between 1st May and 31st July, 2019 obtained by The Whistler includes the General Manager, Chad Basin, Aniya Francis Umaru, who is from the north-eastern part of the country and retired on May 6th, 2019; Adewale Solomon Ladenegan, Managing Director, KRPC, who hails from the south-west and retired on May 13th, 2019 and Musa Sulyman Gimba, who is the Group General Manager, NNPC Leadership Academy, who also is from the north-east and retired on May 14th, 2019.

Others include Umma Ayuba Musa, who is the General Manager, HR & Admin Services, Duke Oil, from North-west and retired on May 19th, 2019; Emmanuel–Ate Mariagoret­ti Ndidi, General Manager, Support Services, NGC, from the south-south region and retires on May 30th, 2019; Tsavnande Thaddeaus Atighir, the Executive Director, Operations, from the North-Central; Okor Ovieghara, the General Manager, Upstream/ TA to GMD, who hails from the South-South region; Barau Mohammed Kabir, the Managing Director, NGMC, who is from the North-Western region; Dawaki Salihi Abubakar, the General Manager NLNG, LIMS, from the North-West; Ibrahim Aminu Bagudu, the Executive Director, ETSD, NPDC, who is from the North-West and Yusuf Shimingah Matashi, the Managing Director, NPDC, who hails from the North-Western region retires on 17th July, 2019.

“The retirement of these officers will open up gaps in the management of some important Strategic Business Units and Commercial Strategic Units of the Corporatio­n.

“Consequent­ly, there is an urgent need to propose competent staff within the Corporatio­n for promotion to fill up the vacancies

that emerged,” the documents cited by The Whistler explained.

On the other hand, the names of the 19 staff that were redployed include Anas Mustapha Mohammed, Usman Faruk, All Muhammed Sarki, Osarolube Ezekiel, Ihya Aondoaver Mson, Isah Abubakar Lapal, Umar Hamza Ado, Garba Adamu Kaita, Ossai Uche, Usman Umar, Ehizoje Tunde Ighodaro, Ahmed Mohammed Abdulkabir and Lere Isa Aliyu.

Others are: Richard-Obioha Maryrose Nkemegina, Dikko Ahmed, Ibrahim Sarafa Ayobami, Usman Yusuf, Sambo Mansur Sadiq and Buggu Louis Tizhe.

Speaking further, the source who shed more light on the exercise said: “It’s part of normal replacemen­t process for those that are due for statutory retirement.

We normally get approvals ahead of schedule.”

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