Tinubu Sacks Farouk Ahmed, Komolafe Gbenga

<p>Tinubu Sacks Farouk Ahmed<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that President Tinubu has sacked Farouk Ahmed&comma; Komolafe Gbenga&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Meantime&comma; President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked the Senate to approve the nominations of two new chief executives for the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority &lpar;NMDPRA&rpar; and the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission &lpar;NUPRC&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The requests followed the resignation of Engineer Farouk Ahmed of the NMDPRA and Gbenga Komolafe of the NUPRC&period; Both officials were appointed in 2021 by former President Buhari to lead the two regulatory agencies created by the Petroleum Industry Act &lpar;PIA&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>To fill these positions&comma; President Tinubu has written to the Senate&comma; requesting expedited confirmation of Oritsemeyiwa Amanorisewo Eyesan as CEO of NUPRC and Engineer Saidu Aliyu Mohammed as CEO of NMDPRA&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The two nominees are seasoned professionals in the oil and gas industry&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Eyesan&comma; a graduate of Economics from the University of Benin&comma; spent nearly 33 years with the NNPC and its subsidiaries&period; She retired as Executive Vice President&comma; Upstream &lpar;2023–2024&rpar;&comma; and previously served as Group General Manager&comma; Corporate Planning and Strategy at NNPC from 2019 to 2023&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Engineer Saidu Aliyu Mohammed&comma; born in 1957 in Gombe&comma; graduated from Ahmadu Bello University in 1981 with a Bachelor&&num;8217&semi;s in Chemical Engineering&period; He was announced today as an independent non-executive director at Seplat Energy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His prior roles include Managing Director of Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company and Nigerian Gas Company&comma; as well as Chair of the boards of West African Gas Pipeline Company&comma; Nigeria LNG subsidiaries&comma; and NNPC Retail&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He also served as Group Executive Director&sol;Chief Operating Officer&comma; Gas &amp&semi; Power Directorate&comma; where he provided strategic leadership for major gas projects and policy frameworks&comma; including the Gas Masterplan&comma; Gas Network Code&comma; and contributions to the Petroleum Industry Act &lpar;PIA&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Engineer Mohammed played a pivotal role in delivering key projects such as the Escravos–Lagos Pipeline Expansion&comma; the Ajaokuta–Kaduna–Kano &lpar;AKK&rpar; Gas Pipeline&comma; and Nigeria LNG Train&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Bayo Onanuga<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Special Adviser to the President<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Information and Strategy&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>December 17&comma; 2025<&sol;p>&NewLine;