Dawha takes over as NNPC boss
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced Dr. Joseph Thlama Dawha as its new Group Managing Director.
Dawha took over the baton of leadership from the former GMD, Engr. Andrew Laah Yakubu at the NNPC Towers, Abuja.
The GMD, who has since resumed duties, has expressed his gratitude to President Goodluck Jonathan, while assuring that the management under him would find lasting solutions to some of the knotty issues plaguing the petroleum sector.
Before his appointment as GMD, Dr. Dawha was the Group Executive Director for Exploration and Production of the NNPC where he was saddled with the onerous responsibility of repositioning and setting strategic direction for the upstream exploration and production activities of the NNPC.
The new GMD joined the services of the NNPC in 1988 and by dint of hard work and dedication, rose to the rank of Executive Director Commercial Services of Eleme Petrochemical Company Limited (now Indorama) Port Harcourt in 2003, from where he was appointed the Managing Director of Integrated Data Services Limited, Benin in 2005.
Dr. Dawha as MD IDSL turned around the fortunes of IDSL which saw it exceeds its target between 2007 and 2010.
The new GMD of NNPC hails from Biu in Borno State and obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1977, a Masters of Science in the same discipline in 1985 and a Doctorate degree in Chemical Engineering in 1988.