JUBILEE2000:
If this news is true then d president would have made a mistake. Appointing a lawyer as NNPC GMD is a wrong step. You need to be a technical person esp an Engineer to understand the dynamics of the oil industry and manage it efficiently. Those of us in the industry will understand what I mean.

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.

AWONEYAN:
Action!!!
And they say he is a go slow President.......he only appoints a notherner......he travels alot......

PMB , What ever it will cost to make our instuttion works and will stop corruption....pls do it...Good nigerians who are not members of any political parties (offline and online) are behind you.


God will RESET the destiny of this Nation through you...

ITbomb:
Is he Delta Igbo?

omenka:
I had to smile on seeing this.

No...u wanked yourself off

Aromas:

Oga teacher weldon, if na Northerner d president appoint I believe say u go dey among of dos who go criticize am. Wen d clueless administration appoint virtually all his kismen into his kitchen cabinet both 4rm SE and SS. Nobody hala now. So no mata hw ur expose you're academically, such a thing must surely occur at least once. Nigeria wey don dey back tay tay b4 BUHARI finally won dis last election.

GstringAngela:
No
he is an Osu Ibo

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

laudate:


Chai! I cannot believe you said this.... . Petroleum Engineering and Commercial aptitude are what you pick on your way up??!

ROFLMAO

I can understand how management expertise may be picked up, but petroleum engineering...! Ye gods! Please share how it is picked up oh!

jaybee:


Let someone excuse me here!

..... FURTHERMORE NNPC IS NOT A REFINERY WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO REFINE CRUDE OIL FOR SALE. THAT IS THE WORK OF WARRI REINERY AND PETROCEMICAL COMPANY (WRPC), KADUNA REINERY AND PETROCEMICAL COMPANY (KRPC), PORTHARCOURT REFINERY, ETC. ALSO NNPC IS NOT A GAS COMPANY. WE HAVE THE NIGERIA GAS COMPANY (NGC), GASLINK ETC.

“The most critical player in the current petrol scarcity riddle that is undermining the economy is the Federal Government. Helped by a compromised National Assembly, the government has turned the NNPC into a goldmine for slush funds, bleeding the country of huge revenues. With an approval from the National Assembly, NNPC took a loan of $1.6 billion in 2012 for the TAM of the refineries, but the facilities remain comatose. There is nothing so far to show for the repairs, which the government had said would raise capacity utilisation to 90 per cent. Obviously, it is better to privatise the refineries but another question will be that, won’t they transfer ownership from public to themselves?” http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/beyond-refineries-privatisation/

NNPC REFINERY PORT HARCOURT
! In 1978, Federal Government acquired the remaining 40% equity of Shell and BP in NPRC. Name changed to NNPC Refinery Port Harcourt.
! New Organizational structure established by NNPC ,Chief Executive Officer ‘s title changed to Managing Director and reported to GM Refineries, NNPC Corporate Headquarters.
! Major policy and operational strategy changes occurred to bring Refinery Management under NNPC Corporate Supervision.
! Bureaucratic style of Management was entrenched – Refinery became a cost centre for NNPC Operations, supplying all its products to PPMS for sales, marketing and distribution....

THE PROBLEMS OF NIGERIAN REFINERIES
The problems are presented as follows: Inadequate Funding and Autonomy

1. Managing Directors’ inability to secure adequate working capital from the NNPC Corporate Headquarters.
2. Managing Directors’ inability to exercise full autonomy to commit the required funds, as necessary to procure chemicals, and catalysts, equipment, spare parts, other plant consumables and contract out services from suppliers and experts. This is due to very low limits of financial authority from the NNPC Corporate Headquarters.
3. The bureaucratic process of approvals, which in some instances required as many as 27 signatures to get critical maintenance spend signed off. These problems originated from the centralisation of powers at the NNPC Corporate Headquarters in Lagos and later in Abuja , away from the refineries’ operations. These problems affect all activities of the refineries directly or indirectly in varying degree of severity.
! The approval processes do not have time limits. They may take a long (up to 6months) or relatively short time (within a few weeks).....
http://tandice-bsolutions.com/rokdownloads/Summit/RefinerySummitContributions.pdf

hamzeiy:
.
my xperience with the human psychology has made me realise people always accuse others of what they do and feel is normal...it is a basic knowledge of psychology....UncleJudax the cronic masturbator give your hand a break ...OK?

GstringAngela:
No

he is an Osu Ibo

uwajeh:
Can't help but say, Onicha Ugbo Kwenu!!! For those who query the appointment based on the fact that he is a lawyer please be reminded that the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Madame Christine Lagarde is a lawyer and not an Economist and she has done a fantastic job at that organisation. Chief Ernest Shonekan studied law but that didn't stop him from becoming one of the icons of Nigeria's industrial sector.

Prof. Pat Utomi initially studied Mass Communications but he is one of the most brilliant economic minds in Nigeria today. Dr. Ibe Kachikwu has been in the oil and gas industry for donkey years and I am certain he has learnt the ropes during that time. You don't rise to be the Executive Vice Chairman (Africa) of the largest oil company in the world by being a dunce.

Allow the man make him drink water keep cup jo!

JUBILEE2000:
If this news is true then d president would have made a mistake. Appointing a lawyer as NNPC GMD is a wrong step. You need to be a technical person esp an Engineer to understand the dynamics of the oil industry and manage it efficiently. Those of us in the industry will understand what I mean.

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.

mapet:


Bros,

You are using analogies that are not the same scenario with the context.
1. There is a difference between the Group Managing Director and an Asset Manager or an Operations Manager.
2. Your second argument is baseless. Kachikwu is there representing an entity and not himself, so saying he opposed the PIB, is ridiculous. Besides, he laid an argument which you failed to comment on, analyze or rebut.....

abagoro:


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

EVILFOREST:
Hmmm...

PMB carry go...
IF u need my head, Just to fix NIGERIA. . Come and take it.

Am tired of the POLITICAL FRAUDSTERS, cabals and cartels.
U made me believe that the ONLY and MAJOR issue we have as a nation is "" POLITICAL WILL ""

U made me believe EFCC can for once be the HIGHEST EMPLOYER OF LABOUR in NIGERIA.

Punish every corrupt soul including me.
U have my support.

profosa:


The current CEO of statoil is an economist see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldar_S%C3%A6tre

The current CEO of Saudi Aramco Abdullah S. Jum'ah had a first degree in pol.science and started his career in public relations.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_S._Jum%27ah

it's a different ball game my dear. CEO is like a minister of petroleum but for the day to day operations of a cooperation like NNPC u need someone with a technical background. If u are in the industry u will understand better

What mistake are you then talking about?.

mapet:
My brother,

You dey mind dem? They are making lame arguments. The Current World Bank President comes from a Medical background. Our former minister of Agric, from Agric background is the current Head of Africa Development Bank.............

Jimoh Ibrahim is a Lawyer, Hakeem Bello-Osagie is a Lawyer, Subomi Balogun is a Lawyer..........

totit:

So he's from delta state after all? Me thought he's an ibo man ni

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

wiseoneking:
i think you should reason or point out any igbo person that says he is a delta igbo if not what your wicked mind is saying. Tomorrow now you will also shout that there are no igbos in delta. Always trying hard to find a way of accusing the igbos.

tonychristopher:


maybe your father will explain well

laudate:


I hope you know that banking is NOT the same thing as oil and gas, oh! Please stop comparing oranges with apples!

wiseoneking:
Ooh, it pained you that he is after all igbo though from Delta.

UncleJudax:

You have a hat trick in dumbness. You talk as though Mr Ibe has not been in oil and for for ages.