Buhari reconstitutes NNPC board

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina, in a statement yesterday, said the reconstitution came after the expiration of the term of the board members appointed in 2016.

Adesina said members of the new board that would be in place for three years include Mohammed Lawal (North West), Tajudeen Umar (North East), Adamu Mahmood Attah (North Central), Senator Magnus Abe (South South), Dr Stephen Dike (South East), and Chief Pius Akinyelure (South West).

Two persons who were part of the board constituted on Monday, July 4, 2016 by President Buhari had died.

They were the late Chief of Staff to the President, Malam Abba Kyari, and a former the Group Managing Director of NNPC, Maikanti Baru, who died yesterday. However, Akinyelure and Umar retained their membership in the new board.

Senator Abe, who once represented the Rivers South East between 2011 and 2015 in the National Assembly; Lawal, Attah, and Dike are new members of the new board that would automatically include NNPC GMD and the Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Timipre Sylva, who leads the team.