{"id":160279,"date":"2025-04-23T22:25:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T21:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani"},"modified":"2025-04-28T18:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:01:38","slug":"protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani","title":{"rendered":"Protests against ex-NNPCL boss Mele Kyari sponsored \u2013 Shehu Sani"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, wrote off the protest held by some groups in Abuja against the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, as nothing but a sponsored project by some displeased or disgruntled oil interests.<\/p>\n<p>A group of protesters had on Tuesday stormed the office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Lateef Fagbemi, to demand the prosecution of former NNPCL Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting on his verified Facebook page, Sani wrote: \u201cI came across some protesters at the Federal Secretariat Abuja, raising placards against the ex NNPCL CEO Kyari. Most of the young guys there don\u2019t actually know what they were protesting about. They just joined.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s clearly a sponsored project by some displeased or disgruntled oil interests against Kyari.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Former senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, wrote off the protest held by some groups in Abuja against the former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL, as nothing but a sponsored project by some displeased or disgruntled oil interests. A group of protesters had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":160278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1202,254,9636,195],"class_list":["post-160279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-mele-kyari","tag-nigeria","tag-nnpcl","tag-shehu-sani"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Protests against ex-NNPCL boss Mele Kyari sponsored \u2013 Shehu Sani - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, wrote off the protest held by some groups in ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Protests against ex-NNPCL boss Mele Kyari sponsored \u2013 Shehu Sani\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Former senator representing Kaduna Central Senatorial District, Shehu Sani, wrote off the protest held by some groups in ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-04-23T21:25:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-04-28T17:01:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745434705.51568.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1043\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"707\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Protests against ex-NNPCL boss Mele Kyari sponsored \u2013 Shehu Sani\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-04-23T21:25:53+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-04-28T17:01:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani\"},\"wordCount\":163,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/04\/sm_1745434705.51568.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Mele Kyari\",\"Nigeria\",\"NNPCL\",\"Shehu sani\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/protests-against-ex-nnpcl-boss-mele-kyari-sponsored-shehu-sani\",\"name\":\"Protests against ex-NNPCL boss Mele Kyari sponsored \u2013 Shehu Sani - 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