By Ade Olu
Ahmadu Musa Kida, was earlier today announced as the new Chairman of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited board.
He replaced the immediate past chairman, Chief Pius Akinyelure.
A statement from the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, indicates that Ahmadu Musa Kida hails from Borno State.
He is an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he received a degree in civil engineering in 1984.
He later also obtained a postgraduate diploma in petroleum engineering from the Institut Francaise du Petrol (IFP) in Paris.
He started his career in the oil industry at Elf Petroleum Nigeria and later joined Total Exploration and Production as a trainee engineer in 1985.
Musa became Total Nigeria’s Deputy Managing Director of Deep Water Services in 2015. In 2024, became an Independent Non-Executive Director at Pan Ocean-Newcross Group.
Apart from his oil industry career, he is a former basketballer and the president of the Nigerian Basketball Federation(NBBF) board.
Bashir Bayo Ojulari, the new NNPC Limited Group CEO, is from Kwara State and until his new appointment, was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Renaissance Africa Energy Company.
The company recently led a consortium of indigenous energy firms in the landmark acquisition of the entire equity holding in the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria (SPDC), worth $2.4 billion.
Coincidentally, Ojulari like Kida, is also an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, where he graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.
He worked for Elf Aquitaine as the first Nigerian process engineer to begin a stellar career in the oil sector. From Elf, he joined Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Ltd in 1991 as an associate production technologist.
Apart from working in Nigeria, he worked in Europe and the Middle East in different capacities as a petroleum process and production engineer, strategic planner, field developer, and asset manager.
In 2015, he became the managing director of Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO).
During his career, he was chairman and member of the board of trustees of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE Nigerian Council) and a fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers.
