{"id":71754,"date":"2022-09-06T10:11:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T09:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads"},"modified":"2022-09-06T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T10:31:47","slug":"buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads","title":{"rendered":"Buhari asked to replace NNPC management with private sector heads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to sack the management team of the newly-registered Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Limited).<\/p>\n<p>The Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) advised him to replace them with prudent private sector heads to save the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary-General, Willy Ezugwu warned that it would be impossible for Nigeria to continue with the subsidy regime that mainly serves the interest of individuals.<\/p>\n<p>CNPP reacted to the claims by NNPC Limited that Premium Motor Spirit (PMS) will cost consumers N462 per litre without the federal government\u2019s subsidy.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Ezugwu lamented that despite the huge assets available to NNPC, both as a public corporation and now commercial company, Nigeria has never felt a positive impact.<\/p>\n<p>It linked the situation to \u201cendemic corruption in the oil industry, especially the high level looting of the treasury through scams like fuel subsidy payments and consistent ineffective turn around maintenance of outdated Nigerian refineries\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>CNPP said maintenance of the four refineries has remained a perpetual conduit pipe deployed by virtually every management team under successive administrations \u201cto siphon the country\u2019s commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTill date, despite several billions of dollars invested in the turn around maintenance of the Nigerian refineries, none of them has ever worked optimally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRather than pursue the construction of new refineries, the NNPC management will conveniently opt for endless renovation of the old refineries for personal economic gains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ezugwu wondered why the NNPC has continued on the same path of another turn around maintenance projects at moribund refineries rather than building new ones.<\/p>\n<p>The scribe said the only visible reason for the insistence on revamping the old refineries is that it allows \u201cunfettered access to the country\u2019s national treasury for personal corrupt enrichment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The statement warned that the nation cannot afford to continue to maintain old refineries and endure \u201cthe endless looting by NNPC officials in the name of fuel subsidy\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria is unarguably the only oil producing country not benefiting from the current high prices of crude oil in the international market, it noted.<\/p>\n<p>Insisting that private sector chiefs should be appointed to handle the NNPC, the CNPP added that \u201cNo sane person does a thing in the same way and expects a different result\u201d.<\/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. President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to sack the management team of the newly-registered Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC Limited). The Conference Of Nigeria Political Parties (CNPP) advised him to replace them with prudent private sector heads to save the country\u2019s economy. Secretary-General, Willy Ezugwu warned that it would be impossible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":71753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14,26],"tags":[1570,2140,97,254,434],"class_list":["post-71754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-buhari","tag-nigeria","tag-nnpc"],"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>Buhari asked to replace NNPC management with private sector heads - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to sack the management team of the newly-registered Nigerian National Petroleu ...\" \/>\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\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari asked to replace NNPC management with private sector heads\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari has been urged to sack the management team of the newly-registered Nigerian National Petroleu ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-09-06T09:11:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-09-06T10:31:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_15-6317217b2c6f3.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"779\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari asked to replace NNPC management with private sector heads\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-09-06T09:11:08+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-09-06T10:31:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads\"},\"wordCount\":395,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2022\/09\/postQueueImg_15-6317217b2c6f3.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Nigeria\",\"Buhari\",\"Nigeria\",\"NNPC\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"Policy\",\"twitter\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/buhari-asked-to-replace-nnpc-management-with-private-sector-heads\",\"name\":\"Buhari asked to replace NNPC management with private sector heads - 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