“NNPC (Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation) must die!” were the stern words of the Governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, on Monday in Abuja. A visibly angry El-Rufai, while speaking on Monday at the 7th Wole Soyinka Centre Media Lecture Series, lambasted the national oil firm, stressing that he was hopeful that the current administration of President Muhammadu Buhari would kill the corporation. The Kaduna State governor called for the setting up of another national oil firm as he argued that the present NNPC would kill Nigeria if it is allowed to continue running as the country’s oil firm. “If you don’t kill NNPC, it kill Nigeria,” El-Rufai said. www.punchng.com/news/nnpc-must-die-el-rufai/

Not NNPC per se, but the management and senior officials of the corporation. Fresh blood needs to be injected into the corporation to completely reform it, furthermore, the PIB should be revisited