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President Buhari Appoints ExxonMobil Vice-chair To Head Nigeria's Petroleum Corporation








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Eluala:


My brother your head dey there. You know to the uninitiated, once you are in oil industry automatically you can occupy any position. This like deja vu. Exactly the sentiments some of us expressed when the immediate past minister was appointed on account of being a director of external affairs at Shell. An architect by training who never even got involved in managing any oil and gas delivery or related project or facility. Now Baba has brought a lawyer, whose broad based understanding of the industry is at best limited. What is wrong with these people really?

Is like appointing a lawyer, who had a long career working in health institution as Chief Medical Director of a hospital. No doubt he is a technocrat, but is he fit for the job....i seriously doubt. Too bad really.

On the Petroleum Industry Bill pending before the National Assembly, Dr. Kachikwu said IOC’s do not have a problem with proposing a bill to guide the industry, but cautioned that the present fiscal terms of the bill are not workable for oil companies, due largely to the excessive powers given to the Minister of Petroleum Resources, the logistics challenges with the Nigerian Navy, the Ministry, militant activities, hostilities against expatriate and the MEND threats
http://scannewsnigeria.com/news/iocs-blame-fg-over-gas-flaring/

Sweetlemon:


Lol. Fashola is. Do you have any idea how much Akwa-Ibom collects from the FG? Compare that to the state population. Then compare it to Lagos population and ask yourself if you are being fair.

laudate:
What NNPC needs at this time is a seasoned petroleum engineer with commercial aptitude, that can think outside the box.

All other contemporaries of NNPC like PedeVesa of Venezuela, PetroBrass of Brazil, Q8 of Kuwait, Statoil of Norway, Saudi Aramco, Sinopec of China, etc, have all added value to their countries, by actively buying out oil-related assets around the globe to increase the foreign exchange earning capability of their companies/countries, increasing local refining capacity on their home turf while remaining good examples of well-run commercial enterprises.

Such an engineer should drive the establishment of modular refineries to increase refining capacity at home, while pushing for the successful rehabilitation of existing ones using local expertise, as was done recently. Such an engineer should also place premium on the exploitation and commercialisation of our gas reserves in country, to drive the Gas-To-Power Programme and other such programmes.

Would a corporate lawyer be able to balance all these? I strongly doubt if Kachikwu has expertise in this area.

archcharles:
President Buhari Appoints ExxonMobil Vice-chair To Head Nigeria's Petroleum Corporation








http://saharareporters.com/2015/08/04/president-buhari-appoints-exxonmobil-vice-chair-head-nigerias-petroleum-corporation

Pierocash:
Wailing Wailers crying tribalism.south east over to u, make I know here tribalism again o

ITbomb:
Is he Delta Igbo?

philips70:


A corporate lawyer with bias for oil and gas law, who have been a major player in top management level in the upstream sector and also with good character will do it perfectly well. If this news is true, Buhari is the man and will continue to shame naysayers.

abagoro:


His name sounds more Ikwerre. All the same we are one.

popcykaylah:
after now some fish brains will say the man is tribalistic ..baba you do well jare..

UnknownT:
You Sai Buhari crew can be annoying most times. Which one is finally a technocrat for the job, I guess the past GMD is a politician. I tire for una

@news, Buhari CAN NEVER appoint a Southerner to head an important MDA like NNPC, when there are some of his brothers that read Geology in UNIMAID. I don't believe this news, Garba will soon refute it

Eluala:


My brother your head dey there. You know to the uninitiated, once you are in oil industry automatically you can occupy any position. This like deja vu. Exactly the sentiments some of us expressed when the immediate past minister was appointed on account of being a director of external affairs at Shell. An architect by training who never even got involved in managing any oil and gas delivery or related project or facility. Now Baba has brought a lawyer, whose broad based understanding of the industry is at best limited. What is wrong with these people really?

Is like appointing a lawyer, who had a long career working in health institution as Chief Medical Director of a hospital. No doubt he is a technocrat, but is he fit for the job....i seriously doubt. Too bad really. And what is even profoundly painful to me is the general direction of the narrative in terms of where he is from as as opposed to analysing what skill sets he possesses vis a vis the job he is being given. I'm really sad for this generation.

Bubewilson:
The man is from Delta state which is in South South Nigeria. The oil rich South south is different geographicaly from the business minded South East. However some places in Delta state speak a language akin to the Igbo language that is the identity of the South Easterners. That is why you have those that are called Delta Igbo's. Hope it's clear now. No insults pls o am proudly 5%. The man is from Delta state which is in South South Nigeria. The oil rich South south is different geographicaly from the business minded South East. However some places in Delta state speak a language akin to the Igbo language that is the identity of the South Easterners. That is why you have those that are called Delta Igbo's. Hope it's clear now. No insults pls o am proudly 5%.

samofson:
A consigliere can never be the head of a family unless the family is in transition or on its way down.

I guess the New GMD will be some sort of reciever who will maximise the value of NNPC by restructuring and eventually spilting it as well as selling off or closing down unprofitable and moribund divisions. He will then be replaced by operations oreinted people who will run the day to day affairs of the split NNPC.

If that is PMB's plan for Kachikwu, than kudos to him. No better person to finally put the nail in NNPC's coffin than Kachikwu but if he is there to continue to run NNPC then we all are on a very long thing!.

Pierocash:
Wailing Wailers crying tribalism.south east over to u, make I know here tribalism again o

kaycid77:
Dr. Kachikwu, from Delta State, is a First Class Graduate of Law from the University of Nigeria Nsukka and the Nigerian Law School, where he was best graduand and multiple awards winner in both Institutions. He also has a Masters and Doctorate Degree in Law from Harvard Law School USA, with distinctions.

A former investment attorney in the United States, the publisher of several magazine titles, has also taught Law at Harvard, Nigerian Law School and several globally acclaimed institutions.

He has three published Law books in Investment Law and Contracts and numerous articles in various Journals. In his capacity as the Vice Chairman and General Counsel of ExxonMobil, he oversees the compliance programs of the company and advices on issues related to adherence with compliance regulations and anti-corruption laws in Africa.

Before he joined Mobil, Kachikwu worked as General Counsel of Texaco Upstream and Downstream in Nigeria.
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America must know has worked here.... he is obvious more of American than an Igbo man , But for sure he is a Technocrat

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But them talk say PMB no pass maths in wASCE but d man Good in calculation.
Ion know what to call this manself.





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Sweetlemon:


You see my problem with Igbos? You see why I say that as far as politics is concerned, they have not the faintest idea what exactly they want? You see? Some of you are even saying he's Delta Igbo. But when you talk of biafra you drag not only the delta Igbo but the whole of SS and curse anyone who dares to oppose it.
Though I doubt this source but even if it were real, the comment above is the reason why I keep saying that many Igbos need to go do some soul searching.

UncleJudax:

Robot...I bet you didn't read the shiit...

Nairaland, soon to be a robotland. Everybody yarning dust just to get likes. Mtcheew!

Aromas:
Is better to go slow than to rush and crash again. Making an Ibo man as NNPC general manager will bring positive effect to oil sector.

Sweetlemon:


Good girl! Now can your brothers and sisters on this forum give us some peace while you watch people like me love the Igbos once again? Can you quietly wait to confirm this news? Or better still can you quietly wait till Buhari's appointment is at least 90% completed? He hasn't even made up to 10%. Why the rush? Am I communicating?

melzabull:
look at you, no one is coercing or cajoling you to love igbos, its upto you. You allow your preference for for APC to overshadow your emotions hence your unfound hate for Igbo, do you also exhibit this sort of hate on your Ibibio people? cos I know even the whole akwa Ibom rejected APC.

BTW, anyone who expresses concern about buharis lopsided appointment is justified.

No of app so far-21

North-17

SS-2

SW-2

SE-0

And you expect a round d of applause? na who be mumu??

philips70:


If you believed that woman performed poorly, do you think she did so because she is not well versed in the affairs of the sector and highly inexperienced or it's because she succumbed to personal interests and political pressures?

laudate:


Thank you, jare! People find it difficult to understand such basic issues. I remember once while supervising logistic operations at a gas field, at the discharge point we noticed that water was leaking from the gas turbine, where gas was being fed into the unit.

My boss who was a petroleum engineer immediately called up the head of field operations and barked: "which of your wells is producing water?!!" They couldn't tell stories to him, because he knew his onions. Sharp, sharp the guys on the field had to do something to address the situation. Can you imagine if my boss had been a lawyer?

Na plenty memo dem go dey still carry up and down, dey find cause of the problem until dem tire!

Meanwhile, this same Kachikwu is against the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB). Read all about it here:



Kindly note that IOCs have been against the PIB for like forever o! Kindly note that he did not even provide solutions that could make it work.