Tag: Mele Kyari

Alleged Corruption@NNPCL: Group launches nationwide protest demanding Kyari’s sack

Aminu Imam

…Vows to occupy its headquarters until Tinubu acts A civil society organisation, Civil Society Network on Economic and Social Advancement, (CSNOESA), has launched a nationwide campaign to collect one million signatures demanding the immediate removal of Dr. Mele Kyari as the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPCL). CSNOESA accused Kyari of mismanaging the NNPC, causing fuel scarcity, and disregarding President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directives. They also alleged corruption, fraud, and embezzlement under Kyari’s leadership. National Spokesperson for the group, Abubakar Yale, who addressed…

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“Suspend NNPCL’s boss, Kyari; probe alleged subsidy scam” – CNPP asks Tinubu

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CNPP asks Tinubu

The Conference of Nigeria Political Parties, (CNPP), has called for the suspension of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPCL) Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO), Mele Kyari. In a statement issued on Sunday by its deputy spokesman, James Ezema, CNPP also called for a probe into allegations of fuel subsidy scams, importation of sub-standard petroleum products and the mismanagement of the Port Harcourt Refinery. CNPP wants the authorities “to hold NNPCL accountable by immediately suspending Mele Kyari and independently probing the subsidy scam and other allegations in Nigeria’s upstream and…

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15 Fed. lawmakers accuse Kyari of being behind economic hardship

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15 lawmakers on Kyari

The Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has been accused of undermining the economic policy of the President Bola Tinubu-led Government. The allegation was levelled at Kyari by fifteen members of House of Representatives, under the aegis of ‘The Economy Rescue Group’. The group, via an issued statement signed by their leader, Hon. Esosa Iyawe, lawmaker representing Oredo federal constituency, in which Kyari was asked to resign or be suspended by the President. The lawmaker said: “We, the 15 concerned lawmakers,…

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“Mele Kyari undermining Tinubu’s ‘Renewed Hope’ agenda” – Federal lawmakers

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Fifteen lawmakers, under the aegis of ‘The Economy Rescue Group’, have called on Mele Kyari, the Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), to resign. The group claimed that mismanagement under Kyari’s leadership at the NNPCL was responsible for the woes being recorded by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. In a press statement signed in Abuja on Tuesday by its leader, Honourable Esosa Iyawe, lawmaker representing Oredo Federal constituency at the 10th House, in Abuja, they insisted that Kyari should be suspended, pending the…

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Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano gas pipeline to be completed by Q1 2025 — Mele Kyari

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AKK Gas pipeline

The Group CEO of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited has said that the Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline will be completed by the first quarter of 2025. Kyari made this disclosure in a statement on Friday, during a visit of three cabinet Ministers to the AKK Gas Pipeline Project Site, where they inspected the River Kaduna crossing milestone of the project in Kaduna. The three Ministers who visited the Project Site were: Minister of Finance / Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun; Minister of Information & NationalOrientation,…

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Tinubu hails NNPCL Boss, Kyari on birthday anniversary

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… Says: “You’re a man of action” President Bola Tinubu has felicitated the Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, as he marks his birthday anniversary on January 8, describing him as man of action. The President, in a statement issued by Presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, on Sunday, commended the diligence, passion, and expertise the foremost geologist brings to tasks as one of the longest-tenured chief executives in the history of Africa’s most valuable energy company. The President said: “Mele is a…

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‘Refineries not refurbished to reduce petrol price’ – NNPCL GMD

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The Group Chief Executive Officer (GCEO) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, Mele Kyari, has said that the country’s refineries are not being refurbished to reduce petrol price. Recall that the Senate had issued a 24-hour ultimatum on Wednesday to the NNPCL boss after an observations that he had in previous occasions, shunned summons by the Senate to appear before its ad-committee probing over N11 trillion expenditure on turn-around maintenance of refineries in the country between 2010 and 2023. Responding to questions by the Senate Committee on Appropriations…

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Crude Oil theft: “There’s calamity in Niger Delta” – Mele Kyari

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The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has described oil theft and vandalism in the Niger Delta region as a calamity. The NNPCL CEO, who stated this in Abuja on Friday, when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Appropriation, said that there were over 4,800 illegal connections on crude oil pipelines in the area and warned that this could frustrate the projections of the Federal Government. Kyari pointed out that the daily oil production would depend greatly on the security situation…

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Tinubu appoints NNPCL Board members, management team

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…Re-appoints Mele Kyari as GCEO President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, yesterday, approved the appointment of board and management team of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). In a statement by the President’s spokesperson, Ajuri Ngelale, while announcing this in a statement, said the Tinubu approved the re-appointment of Malam Mele Kyari as the Group Chief Executive Officer. He said the President also appointed the management team of the corporation, with Chief Pius Akinyelure as Non-Executive Board Chairman. The statement said, “In compliance with Section 59 (2) of the Petroleum Industry…

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‘Oil thieves, few retired NNPC staff, idle lawyers behind sack Kyari campaign’, Group alleges

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A group, under the auspices of Nigeria Accountability Monitors, (NAM) has lambasted the Coalition of Nigerian Legal Practitioners, for calling for the sack of NNPC GCEO, Mele Kyari. It also accused some recently retired senior and management staff of conniving with “idle lawyers and other hirelings” to attack the NNPC’s Mele Kyari/ Umar Ajiya- led management. A media statement signed by the group’s Chairman, Sabiu Ibrahim on Thursday evening, described the lawyers coalition, led by Adesina Bernard, as “mischief-makers acting the script of a few among the recently retired officials…

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