President Bola Tinubu has asked the senate to confirm the
nominations of new chief executives for the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum
Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream
Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).
The request followed the resignation of Farouk Ahmed as the
chief executive of the NMDPRA and Gbenga Komolafe, chief executive of the
NUPRC.
Ahmed and Komolafe were appointed in 2021 by the late former
Muhammadu Buhari to head the two regulatory agencies created under the
Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).
In separate letters to the senate, Tinubu nominated
Oritsemeyiwa Amanorisewo Eyesan as chief executive of the NUPRC and Saidu Aliyu
Mohammed as chief executive of the NMDPRA.
Tinubu requested the senate to expedite consideration and
confirmation of the nominees.
Eyesan is a graduate of economics from the University of
Benin and has spent nearly 33 years at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company
(NNPC) and its subsidiaries.
Eyesan retired as executive vice-president, upstream, in
2024.
She previously served as group general manager of corporate
planning and strategy at the NNPC between 2019 and 2023.
Mohammed, born in 1957 in Gombe, graduated from Ahmadu Bello
University, Zaria in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering.
He was recently announced as an independent non-executive
director at Seplat Energy.
Mohammed previously served as the managing director of the
Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company and the Nigerian Gas Company.
He also chaired the boards of the West African Gas Pipeline
Company, Nigeria LNG subsidiaries, and NNPC Retail.
Mohammed served as group executive director and chief
operating officer, gas and power directorate, where he provided strategic
leadership on major gas projects and policy frameworks, including the gas
masterplan, gas network code and contributions to the PIA.
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