The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC has announced new appointments and re-deployments of top management staff of the corporation.

It noted that the move is part of ongoing efforts to strengthen and reposition the corporation for greater efficiency, transparency and profitability in line with the aspiration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

In the latest re-deployments, the Group General Manager, Crude Oil Marketing Division, Mr. Adokiye Tombomieye, has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer, upstream.

In the same vein the NNPC announced that the Managing Director of the Nigerian Gas Marketing Company, Mr. Mohammed Ahmed, has been appointed the new Chief Operating Officer, Corporate Services, following the retirement of Mr. Farouk Sa’id.

A statement by the corporation’s Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, stated that the Chief Operating Officer, upstream, Mr. Adeyemi Adetunji, has now been redeployed to the Ventures and Business Development Directorate as Chief Operating Officer, a position vacated by Mr. Roland Ewubare, who voluntary retired last week.

Speaking on the development, the Group Managing Director of the Corporation, Mr Mele Kyari, said the new appointments will enable the corporation live up to the expectation of her shareholders, the Nigerians.

He noted that it will also give impetus to the ongoing restructuring within the corporation, which he said was in line with the corporate vision of Transparency, Accountability and Performance Excellence.

Culled From: THIS DAY