Tinubu Nominates Board Members For NMDPRA, NUPRC, Seeks Senate Confirmation
President Bola Tinubu has written two letters to the Senate, seeking confirmation of 21 nominees for the boards of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA) and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC).
In the first letter, President Tinubu nominated Senator Magnus Abe to serve as the NUPRC board chair.
Abe, who represented Rivers South East in the Senate for two terms, is a former NNPC board member and current chairman of the National Agency of the Great Green Wall.
According to a statement by Special Adviser to the President, (Information & Strategy), Bayo Onanuga, on Monday, other nominees for the NUPRC board are Engineer Paul Yaro Jezhi, a former Trade Union Congress chairman in Kaduna, and Sunday Adebayo Babalola, a former deputy director of the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), which was abolished by the PIA in 2021.
Both men will serve as non-executive commissioners.
President Tinubu also nominated executive commissioners to the board.
They are: Muhammed Sabo Lamido, executive commissioner for finance; Mr Edu Inyang, executive commissioner for Exploration and Acreage; Justin Ezeala, executive commissioner for economic regulation and strategic planning; and Henry Darlington Oki, executive commissioner for Development and Production.
Others are Indabawa Bashari Alka, executive commissioner for corporate services and administration; Mahmood Tijani, executive commissioner for health, safety, and environment; and Olayemi Adeboyejo, as secretary and legal adviser.
Former President Buhari appointed Lamido and Adeboyejo in 2022, while President Tinubu appointed Alka in 2023.
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