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...
The PAP chief has also had to fend off comments from Charles Achodo a special advisor to Ibe Kachikwu Minister of State for Petroleum Resources...
Vol 59 No 5 |
- NIGERIA
- ITALY
On 26 February there was a secret meeting in Abuja between Attorney General Abubakar Malami Deputy Minister of Petroleum Ibe Kachikwu and representatives of ENI and Shell we hear...
He is now under far less pressure than his fellow economics chiefs Emmanuel Kachikwu Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation managing director Maikanti Baru and Power Works and Housing Minister Babatunde Fashola (AC Vol 58 No 11 A date with destiny & Vol 58 No 21 When oil chiefs fall out)...
The budget followed local difficulties for Buhari – a public slanging match between two key appointees in the oil and gas sector Ibe Kachikwu Deputy Oil Minister and Maikanti Baru head of the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation...
On 3 October online blogs and mainstream media carried details of a letter dated 30 August from Ibe Kachikwu Minister of State for Petroleum Resources to President Muhammadu Buhari...
barrels a day deputy Oil Minister Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu told a meeting in London on 1 September predicting it would soon exceed 2 mn...
A Pentecostal preacher and lawyer Osinbajo launched several initiatives and he visited the Niger Delta a few times backing Deputy Oil Minister Emmanuel Kachikwu's efforts to broker a peace deal with the militants and ramp up oil production...
Although intensive negotiations and dealmaking by Deputy Oil Minister Emmanuel Kachikwu and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo have damped down militant attacks in the Niger Delta there are questions about the sustainability of this reduction...
Osinbajo who has no independent political base has won kudos for some of the recent policy announcements and has made several trips to the Niger Delta including one with Oil Minister Emmanuel Kachikwu to launch the Industrial Park project...