*President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, reconstitutes the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, and appoint Engr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari as the new Group Chief Executive Officer, and Ahmadu Musa Kida as the Non-Executive Chairman of the state oil company

Gbenga Kayode | 绿帽献妻

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in a sweeping reconstitution of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, has appointed Engr. Bashir Bayo Ojulari as the new Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the state oil company.

绿帽献妻 reports Engr. Ojulari replaces former Group CEO Malam Mele Kolo Kyari, who President Tinubu removed along with all other Board members he had appointed with Chief Pius Akinyelure, ex-Board Cjarman of NNPCL since November 2023.

Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, noted this development Wednesday, April 2, 2025, said Ojulari now leads the 11-man Board with Ahmadu Musa Kida as the Non-Executive Chairman.

Until his latest appointment as the Group CEO of NNPCL, Engr. Ojulari, who hails from Kwara State, was Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Renaissance Africa Energy Company.

His Renaissance recently led a consortium of indigenous energy firms in the landmark acquisition of the entire equity holding in the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), worth $2.4 billion.

An alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), in Zaria, Kaduna State, Ojulari graduated with a Degree in Mechanical Engineering.

He once worked for Elf Aquitaine as the first Nigerian process engineer to begin a stellar career in the oil sector.

From Elf, he joined Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited, in 1991, as an associate production technologist.

Besides working in Nigeria, the new Group CEO had worked in Europe and the Middle East in different capacities as a petroleum process and production engineer, strategic planner, field developer, and asset manager.

Ojulari, in 2015, became the Managing Director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO).

During his career, he was Chairman and member of the Board of Trustees of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE Nigerian Council), and Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE).