Jonathan Sacks NNPC Group MD, Yakubu

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has sacked the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mr Andrew Yakubu.

 He has been replaced by a former  Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production, NNPC and Managing Director of Integrated Data Services Ltd (IDSL), a subsidiary of the NNPC,   Dr Joseph Thlama Dawha,

The new Managing Director of the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) is Mr Anthony Ugonna Muoneke

‎Others are Ms Aisha Mata Abdurrahaman, who is the new Group Executive Director, Commercial

 and Investment, NNPC, and ‎ Dr Attahir B. Yusuf who becomes the new  Group Executive Director, Business.

All the new appointments take immediate effects.

The new Group Managing Director of the NNPC, Dr. Dawha hails from Borno state.

He has served previously as the Group Executive Director, Exploration and Production, NNPC and Managing Director of Integrated Data Services Ltd (IDSL), a subsidiary of the NNPC.

Mr Anthony Muoneke, the new Managing Director of the NPDC, hails from Anambra state.

 He was called  to the Nigerian Bar in 1985, he has over 29 years’ experience at both local and international levels in the oil and gas as well as the energy and power sectors, including serving as Executive Director, Finance & Admin, Niger Delta Power Holding Company Ltd. (NDPHC).