The President has a longstanding reluctance to act in response to newspaper headlines: in 2017 he left in post Ibe Kachikwu the then Minister of State for Petroleum Resources and Maikanti Baru the Group Managing Director Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation who were then engaged in a visceral newspaper campaign against one another...
Buhari dropped several prominent ministers: Dan Ali at defence apparently for being as anonymous as he was ineffective; Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau at interior for relentlessly feuding with rivals; and Emmanuel Kachikwu (oil) Udoma (budget) and Enemalah (trade) who had all advocated policies on trade and liberalisation at odds with the administration's...
The exclusion of Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu the flamboyant minister of state (deputy minister) for petroleum was expected but will intensify demands that the president replace him with an appointee from the Niger Delta...
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President Muhammadu Buhari who controlled the oil portfolio in his first term alongside the deputy minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu is due to announce a new cabinet for his second term in the coming weeks...
Of those the competition will be fiercest for the commercially sensitive Petroleum Resources ministry (Buhari acts at the substantive minister with Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as his Deputy) and Finance (AC Vol 59 No 16 Politics of patronage)...
This contrasts contrasts with vocal support for the confirmation of the licence and approval for its development offered by Abubakar Malami the current Attorney-General and Ibe Kachikwu the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources a veteran Buhari ally...
The future of Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu as Deputy Oil Minister is more problematic as is that of Abubakar Malami as Attorney General...
DisclosuresSources say Malami was influenced to submit the memo by Ibe Kachikwu the entrepreneurial Minister for Petroleum Resources and local companies close to ENI that stand to benefit...
Ibe Kachikwu the current State Minister for Petroleum Resources who was a lawyer with ExxonMobil until 2015 came up with a new strategy together with Bukola Saraki the currently embattled Senate President: to break an unwieldy bill into four components...
The President nominates the NNPC board which includes his influential chief of staff Abba Kyari and is chaired by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu formerly general counsel and board member at ExxonMobil Nigeria...
