The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has disengaged over 400 of its senior staff nationwide.
The disengagement takes effect from Thursday, March 12, 2020.
Sources in the NNPC, said the disengagement affected mainly staff who were scheduled to retire between now and 2022, while it also engaged some staff and promoted others, who are scheduled to resume, same Thursday.
Similarly, the NNPC was reported to have also appointed Mr. Kehinde Obateru, as the new Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division.
Obateru, who was until now, the spokesperson for the NNPC London office, would be the new spokesperson of the NNPC, replacing Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, who retired last September.
He would also be taking over from Mr. Samson Makoji, who had been the acting Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, since Ughamadu’s exit.
The sources added that Obateru would be replaced in the NNPC London office, by Mr. Gboyega Bello, who had been promoted, General Manager of the Group Public Affairs Division.
