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Group Urges Tinubu to Appoint Female NNPCL GMD

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Friday, September 27, 2024 at 01:37 PM

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Group Urges Tinubu to Appoint Female NNPCL GMD

The International Women in Oil Marketing and Refinery, has urged President Bola Tinubu to consider appointing a female Group Managing Director (GMD) to head the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).

The group in a statement signed by it’s Secretary-General, Dr. P.S. Bhandari, and African Continent Director-General, Ambassador Sarki Ibrahim, said the oil and gas industry is in dire need of a woman to effect the positive change that the industry needs and to ensure transparency, accountability and honesty in the nation’s oil corporation and the oil & gas sector as a whole.

“The Nigerian oil and gas industry needs a redirection. It needs a breath of fresh air. Since oil exploration started in Nigeria, the position of Group Managing Director (GMD) has been the exclusive preserve of men. Yet, we are far from getting the desired oil and gas company that can compete favorably with its peers around the world. Mr. President, it’s time to give women a try and see if the outcome won’t be different,” the statement noted.

Highlighting the achievements of two illustrious Nigerian women Professor Dora Akunyili, former Director-General of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Nigeria’s former Finance Minister and current Director-General of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the organization noted that these examples demonstrate the capacity of women to drive positive change in critical sectors.

“Women have proven themselves in high authority positions,” “another woman could bring sanity to Nigeria’s troubled oil sector”.

“As a gender friendly President, we wish to remind you that many Nigerian woman have proved their mettle in the service to fatherland. How can we forget in a hurry, how late Prof Dora Akunyili courageously took on counterfeiting cabals? She put her life on the firing line for country.

“How can we forget so soon, how Nigeria drafted Prof Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from World Bank to negotiate Nigeria’s way out of debt trap? We can’t forget how she courageously leveraged on Information Technology to save the economy billions of Naira that would have gone into private pocket?

The organization also hailed President Tinubu’s bold decision to remove fuel subsidy, saying the move has gone a long way in liberalizing the oil sector and promoting economic growth.

President Bola Tinubu had in his inaugural address on 29 May 2023. said 'The fuel subsidy is gone, “The subsidy can no longer justify its ever-increasing costs in the wake of drying resources. We shall instead re-channel the funds into better investment in public infrastructure, education, health care and jobs that will materially improve the lives of millions.”

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Group Urges Tinubu to Appoint Female NNPCL GMD

The International Women in Oil Marketing and Refinery, has urged President Bola Tinubu to consider appointing a female Group Managing Director (GMD) to head the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL).

“Women have proven themselves in high authority positions,” “another woman could bring sanity to Nigeria’s troubled oil sector”.

“As a gender friendly President, we wish to remind you that many Nigerian woman have proved their mettle in the service to fatherland. How can we forget in a hurry, how late Prof Dora Akunyili courageously took on counterfeiting cabals? She put her life on the firing line for country.

“How can we forget so soon, how Nigeria drafted Prof Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala from World Bank to negotiate Nigeria’s way out of debt trap? We can’t forget how she courageously leveraged on Information Technology to save the economy billions of Naira that would have gone into private pocket?

The organization also hailed President Tinubu’s bold decision to remove fuel subsidy, saying the move has gone a long way in liberalizing the oil sector and promoting economic growth.

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