denex:


Where is that stupid Ojo Madu? If he likes, he should come and start riding bicycle in this era whether no be cane Yar'Adua go use pursue am back to village!

Seun:

No source, as usual. Are we all illiterates in this country?

President Umaru Yar’Adua on Friday appointed Mr. Abubakar Lawal Yar’Adua as the Acting Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
A statement from the Special Adviser to the President on Communications, Mr. Olusegun Adeniyi, said that Yar’Adua is currently the most senior Group Executive Director in the NNPC. The incumbent GMD, Mr. Funsho Kupolokun, was directed to “hand over the management of the corporation to its most senior Group Executive Director.”

The Acting GMD joined the NNPC in 1977 and has been its Group Executive Director (Refineries and Petrochemicals) since 2003. He will act as GMD until “further notice.”

In the same vein, the President approved the appointments of Dr. Emmanuel O. Egbogah and Dr. Tanimu Kurfi as Special Adviser on Petroleum and Economic Adviser respectively. As a result of this development, Kurfi relinquishes his current position as the Deputy Chief of Staff to the President.

Kurfi was officially tipped to take over from the current Chief of Staff, Gen. Mohammed Abdullahi (rtd) but it is now likely that Abdullahi will continue in the position for a longer period.

Adeniyi explained that Egbogah’s appointment as the presidential adviser on petroleum was in line with Yar’Adua’s desire to “restructure the oil sector completely.” He said Egbogah was an expert who played a major role in the transformation of the Malaysian petroleum industry.

The President also approved the appointment of Mr. Afas Aduwa Gadzama and Mr. Emmanuel Imohe as the directors-general of the State Security Service and the National Intelligence Agency respectively.

Until his appointment, Gadzama, who hails from Borno State, was the director, Corporate Services of the SSS while Imohe, who is from Edo State, was the Minister incharge of the Economic Section of the Nigerian Embassy in Washington, D.C, USA.

The President also approved the reappointment of Dr. Magnus Kpakol as the National Coordinator of the National Poverty Eradication Programme.

babasin:

and he was replaced by another hausa man from katsina.

for how long will Nigeria be going through this,

A former staff of Chevron Nigeria Limited, Mr. Alex Nenyim,is said to have been okayed by President Umaru Yar’Adua as Kupolokun’s successor.

Nenyim’s appointment would have been announced on Tuesday, but for protests from Ijaw people. The Ijaw were angry that Nenyim, like the Governor of Delta State, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, is an Itsekiri.

The appointment of Nenyim is the second time the government would go outside the NNPC’s fold to source for a GMD. The appointment of the immediate past Minister of Energy, Dr. Edmund Daukoru, from the Shell Petroleum Development Company, was the first.