Maikanti Baru

NNPC reopens Ibadan depot

The Group Managing Director, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, on Wednesday reopened the NNPC depot in the Apata area of Ibadan, Oyo State after some years of inactivity.Baru said that President Muhammadu Buhari was concerned about ease of fuel distribution and supply to every part of the company, which he said informed his commitment to upgrading of storage facilities across Nigeria. He stated that the reopening of the depot would ease the stress of transporting fuel from Lagos to Ibadan. The Chairman of the Petroleum Tanker Drivers, Suleiman Oladiti, commended the Federal Government for deeming it fit to restore the depot and other ones across the country.He said, “With the turnaround of the depots in Aba, Ejigbo, Lagos, Mosimi, Kano and now Ibadan, the government has set the pace for steady supply of oil across the country”.

Kachikwu’s letter to Buhari on NNPC chief Baru

Published on 5 Ottobre 2017 in AFRICA/PRESS RELEASE/REGIONS by pressrelease

The Minister of State for Petroleum, Ibe Kachikwu, has reported the Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Maikanti Baru, to President Muhammadu Buhari, urging him to take urgent actions on matters ranging from alleged illegal practices to insubordination. Mr. Kachikwu said he found it pertinent to call the attention of the president to his misgivings because they’re capable of hindering progress in the country’s petroleum sector or even reverse recorded strides. Mr. Kachikwu said he wrote the August 30 letter to Mr. Buhari after concerted efforts to have a one-on-one appointment with the president at the State House fell through. The letter, which emerged on the Internet Tuesday, was widely circulated on Twitter. It is not immediately clear how it made it to the public domain. The minister said he suffered “disrespectful and humiliating conducts” from Mr. Baru.

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