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President Muhammadu Buhari has reconstituted the board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation for three years.
This was contained in a statement on Saturday by the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina.
The decision followed the expiration of the term of the board members appointed in 2016.
Members of the new Board include Mohammed Lawal (North West), Tajudeen Umar (North East), Adamu Attah (North Central), Magnus Abe (South-South), Stephen Dike (South East), and Pius Akinyelure (South West).
Akinyelure, former national vice chairman of the All Progressives Congress(APC), South West zone, returns as the representative of the zone.
The statement, however, did not state who will serve as the board’s chairman.
Former Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, served as the board chairman from 2016.
He was replaced by John Asuquo Thomas, who served as alternate chairman until Timipre Sylva was appointed as minister of state.
However, Sylvia has not been officially announced as the board chairman.
Thomas was the first Managing Director of Eleme (Indorama) Petrochemical Company where he led the team that negotiated the financing of the Eleme Project.
He also served as NNPC GMD and voluntarily retired in 1992.