{"id":167573,"date":"2025-06-27T21:41:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/n210-alleged-missing-funds-portharcourt-refinery-nnpcl-blames-saboteurs-for-travails"},"modified":"2025-06-27T21:41:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T20:41:00","slug":"n210-alleged-missing-funds-portharcourt-refinery-nnpcl-blames-saboteurs-for-travails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/n210-alleged-missing-funds-portharcourt-refinery-nnpcl-blames-saboteurs-for-travails","title":{"rendered":"N210 alleged Missing Funds, Portharcourt Refinery: NNPCL blames saboteurs for travails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The leadership of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has blamed saboteurs for waves of campaigns of calumny against the state-owned oil firm.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as the Senate on Public Accounts on Thursday gave NNPCL\u2019s leadership, led by its Group Chief Executive Officer, Bayo Ojulari, a ten-day ultimatum to appear over N210 missing funds in the firm\u2019s audited account.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, there have been concerns about the shutdown of the PortHarcourt Refinery on May 24, 2025, months after it was rehabilitated.<\/p>\n<p>Reacting, in a statement on Friday, Ojulari, the head of NNPCL, said it has uncovered an emerging campaign of calumny being waged against it by what it described as a syndicate.<\/p>\n<p>According to NNPCL, the saboteurs are working to discredit the firm\u2019s leadership and distract the organisation from transforming into a corruption-free entity in line with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s vision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTheir tactics include planting scandalous and fabricated reports, curated to distract leadership, mislead the public, and undermine the commitment of our dedicated workforce and reform-minded Nigerians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are calculated efforts by those who feel threatened by reform, transparency, accountability, and change\u2014clear evidence of the lengths to which they will go to obstruct the transformation of Nigeria\u2019s foremost energy institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect a surge of defamatory content in the days and weeks ahead,\u201d the company stated.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The leadership of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has blamed saboteurs for waves of campaigns of calumny against the state-owned oil firm. This comes as the Senate on Public Accounts on Thursday gave NNPCL\u2019s leadership, led by its Group Chief Executive Officer, Bayo Ojulari, a ten-day ultimatum to appear over N210 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":167572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[1570,2140,254],"class_list":["post-167573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-nigeria"],"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>N210 alleged Missing Funds, Portharcourt Refinery: NNPCL blames saboteurs for travails - Nigeria<\/title>\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\/uncategorized\/n210-alleged-missing-funds-portharcourt-refinery-nnpcl-blames-saboteurs-for-travails\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"N210 alleged Missing Funds, Portharcourt Refinery: NNPCL blames saboteurs for travails\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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