Tinubu meets Shell Upstream Director, NNPCL GMD at presidential villa

Akinwande Soji-Ojo

President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, met with the Shell Global Upstream Director, Ms Zoë Yujnovich, at Presidential Villa, Abuja.

In attendance at the meeting was the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari.

The meeting is Tinubu’s first engagement since resuming office after the Sallah holiday and his foreign trips to France on June 20 and London on June 24.

Yujnovich, who assumed office as Upstream Director on July 1, has been a member of the Shell Executive Committee since 2021.

She arrived at the presidential villa alongside three other Shell officials– Peter Costello, Osagie Okunbo and Mar De Jong.

The meeting was part of Tinubu’s ongoing consultations with leaders from the oil and gas sector since his administration came on board and discontinued petroleum subsidy on May 29.

The president had previously met with the Exxon Mobil Executives, Mr. Liam Mallon, Mr. Richard Laing and Mrs. Adesua Dozie at the State House.

He had also met other key figures from the oil-rich Niger Delta region, including former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission, Timi Alaibe, and former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency, Dr Dakuku Peterside.

The Chief of Staff to the President, Rt Hon Femi Gbajabiamila; Special Adviser to the President on Energy, Ms Olu Verheijen; Special Adviser to the President on Revenue, Mr Zacchaeus Adedeji and the Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications and Strategy, Mr Dele Alake were also part of the meeting.