Immediate past Group Managing Director, GMD of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru is dead. The NNPC GMD, Mr Mele Kyari in a statement through his twitter handle made this known. According to him, Baru passed away late Saturday night, but the cause of his death was not disclosed. Kyari tweeted, “My brother, […]
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Nigeria has given licenses to 13 firms to establish modular refineries. A total of 35 firms expressed interest to establish the refineries, indicating less than half got the approvals from the department of petroleum resources. This was disclosed by Maikanti Baru, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), at the Offshore […]
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Dr. Maikanti Baru, group managing director, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, on Friday said that the federal government has been able to ‘tame the monster’ of fuel scarcity in the country. Baru said this in an interview with State House correspondents after joining fellow Muslims for Jumat service in a mosque at the Presidential Villa, […]
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The Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Maikanti Baru, on Sunday disclosed that Petrol is being subsidised to the tune of N26 per litre. According to him, the landing cost of petrol (PMS) is N171 per litre; it is being sold at the pump at N145 per litre – a difference of N26. […]
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Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, says the decision of Maikanti Baru, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), to bypass Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum resources, in award of contracts and appointments cannot be justified by law. After Kachikwu wrote a petition against him, Baru said he did not break […]
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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, and the Group Managing Director, of the Nigerian National petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Maikanti Baru, appeared to set aside their differences on Tuesday. The two top officials have not had the best of relations since last week Tuesday when a letter Mr. Kachikwu wrote to President Muhammadu […]
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By Reuben Abati The current NNPC debacle is probably the most embarrassing, even if mercifully, eye-opening crisis in the history of that nationally strategic institution since its creation in 1977. I seek in the following commentary to offer a number of observations that would probably throw some light on the muck and confusion running riot […]
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Maikanti Baru, group managing director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), says the contracting process of the group is perfect and that they would continue to follow it. Speaking on Monday when he received leaders of some unions at the NNPC headquarters in Abuja, Baru said as a former chairman of the NNPC […]
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In the midst of brewing controversy, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has made a release today breaking silence on the recent letter written by the Minister of State for Petroleum, Dr Ibe Kachikwu to President Muhammadu Buhari. In the statement signed by the General Manager Public Affairs, Ndu Ughamadu, the group stated that the […]
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The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has expressed shock over the silence of President Muhammadu Buhari on the petition of Ibe Kachikwu, minister of state for petroleum resources, noting that the allegations are “too grave to be swept under the carpet” Kachikwu had accused Maikanti Baru, group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), […]
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