Fresh controversy has engulfed Nigeria’s oil and gas sector following allegations that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, quietly recruited mostly Southerners into executive and middle management positions, amid claims that the exercise violated the federal character principle. Sources told newsmen that the recruitment, conducted alongside the company’s ‘Accelerated and Voluntary Exit Programme’, lacked transparency and was carried out without public advertisement or clearly defined selection criteria. The development comes as stakeholders also criticised President Bola Tinubu’s Executive Order 9, which redirects funds previously allocated to frontier oil exploration…
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