The new management also asked many officials with one year to their various retirement dates to leave.
The new management of Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has dismissed the managing directors of Port Harcourt, Warri, and Kaduna refineries, alongside other senior officials. The purge, confirmed by company sources, also affected employees nearing retirement. This follows President Tinubu’s April 2 removal of ex-GCEO Mele Kyari, citing unmet production targets. “They were going in circles,” a presidential official revealed, framing the shake-up as performance-driven.
The restructuring aims to inject “new energy” into Nigeria’s oil sector, with technocrats replacing ousted leaders. Presidential sources disclosed ambitious metrics: 2M barrels/day by 2027 and 10B cubic meters of gas by 2030. “We need experts, not politicians,” an official stated, stressing the focus on optimizing dormant oil blocks. NNPCL’s spokesperson declined comments.