President Bola Tinubu has sacked the Group Chief Executive Officer, GCEO, of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, Limited, Mallam Mele Kyari.
Tinubu also removed the Board Chairman of the Company, Chief Pius Akinyelure, and all other board members appointed with Akinyelure and Kyari in November 2023.
The president appointed Engr Bashir Bayo Ojulari, to replace Kyari as the Group CEO and Ahmadu Musa Kida as non-executive chairman to lead an 11-man board, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, announced in a statement in the early hours of Wednesday.