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Nigeria’s 50-Year OPEC Journey
In less than eight weeks from now, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), will roll out the drums in celebration of its 60th year anniversary. In 50 years of those six decades, the story of Nigeria has been strongly intertwined with that of the oil cartel. Emmanuel Addeh writes that it has been a marriage that has seen both good and bad times, as portrayed by some key Nigerian OPEC participants, who reflected on the history of Nigeria’s involvement in the organisation
On September 14, 1960, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), an inter-governmental cartel of 13 countries was founded in Baghdad by its first five members, namely Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
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In less than eight weeks from now, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), will roll out the drums in celebration of its 60th year anniversary. In 50 years of those six decades, the story of Nigeria has been strongly intertwined with that of the oil cartel. Emmanuel Addeh writes that it has been a marriage that has seen both good and bad times, as portrayed by some key Nigerian OPEC participants, who reflected on the history of Nigeriaâs involvement in the organisation
On September 14, 1960, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), an inter-governmental cartel of 13 countries was founded in Baghdad by its first five members, namely Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.
The Board of Directors of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited has approved the appointment of Dr. Philip Mshelbila as successor to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the company, Mr. Tony Attah, whose tenure expires August 30, 2021.
NLNG announced this in a statement issued by its General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development, Eyono Fatayi-Williams.
Attah, according to the statement, will return to his parent company, Shell, on August 30, 2021, at the expiration of his five-year tenure at the helm of affairs, having been appointed Chief Executive Officer by the NLNG Board in July 2016.
Mshelbila, who is rounding-up his tenure as the Chief Executive Officer, Atlantic LNG Company of Trinidad & Tobago, will be taking over from Attah on August 31, 2021.
Mallam Mele Kyari
Peter Uzoho reviews the performance of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, the Group Managing Director, Mallam Mele Kyari two years after his appointment
Last Thursday made it the second year in office of the current Group Managing Director (GMD) of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari as the 19th GMD of the national oil company.
Already aware of the expectations of Nigerians, who are the shareholders of the NNPC, the nationâs oil and gas industry and other stakeholders in the affairs of the corporation, Kyari hit the ground running right from the day of his inauguration.