Nigeria: NNPC Promotions - S-South - 45 Percent Nw/Ne/Nc: 28 Percent

Daily Trust

17 Feb 2011

Nigeria: NNPC Promotions - S-South - 45 Percent Nw/Ne/Nc: 28 Percent

Forty five percent of the total number of management positions in the recent promotion exercise conducted by the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) went to officers from the South-South geopolitical zone, documents obtained by Daily Trust showed yesterday.

The home region of both President Goodluck Jonathan and Minister of Petroleum Resources Diezani Allison-Madueke grabbed 17 new management staff positions out of the 38 on offer.

The documents indicated that six out of the top eight management positions of Group General Manager (GGMs) are occupied by South-South indigenes, as is the new Coordinator, Corporate Planning and Strategy [equivalent to Group Executive Director, which is now occupied by Timothy Effiong Okon from Akwa Ibom State.

In the promotion list, South East came second with seven posts equivalent to 18 percent while North West came third with 5 new posts or 13 percent. South West and North Central zones occupied the fourth position with 4 new posts each which or 10.5 percent, while the North East was left holding the hat with only one post.