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Jonathan sacks NNPC secretary, names successor

Ikechukwu Oguine is the new Coordinator, Legal Services and Company Secretary of the NNPC.

President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday approved the immediate removal of the Secretary and Legal Adviser of the Board of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Anthony Madichie.
No reason was immediately given for the action. But, the Special Adviser to the President on Media & Publicity, Reuben Abati, said in statement that Mr. Jonathan has approved the appointment of Ikechukwu Oguine to take over as the Coordinator, Legal Services and Company Secretary of the corporation.Mr. Oguine, who has over 29 years of legal experience, is an indigene of Anambra State, like Mr. Madichie.

The new official was previously the General Counsel of Chevron Nigeria Limited, CNL and has been a partner in Advisory Legal Consultants, a Law Firm specializing in oil, gas, power and mining.
Mr. Madichie has served as the NNPC Legal Adviser and Secretary to the Board since February 2011. This is the second time in two months that the President would be removing members of the NNPC management. Late March, the President approved the appointment of new Group Executive Directors, GEDs, for the corporation. Mr. Abati had said the appointments were to fill critical vacancies that existed in the top hierarchy of the national oil corporation.

The appointees included Ian Udoh as GED Refining and Petrochemicals; Dan Efebo, GED, Corporate Services; Aisha Abdurrahman, GED, Business Development; and Adebayo Ibirogba, GED Engineering Technical. Joseph Dawha was appointed Acting GED Exploration and Production.
The NNPC, which has been involved in several shady deals, is enmeshed in perhaps it most controversial scandal as the suspended Central Bank governor, Lamido Sanusi, accused it of failing to remit over $20 billion into the federation account.

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