NNPC Explains Criteria for Employment, Appointments

The Nigerian National Corporation (NNPC), Sunday, disclosed that some of the criteria required for employment and appointments in the corporation include unblemished academic competence, logical thinking, ability to engage meaningfully in problem solving in addition to federal character.

In a statement in Abuja, the NNPC added that professional competence, transparency, accountability and national spread, were the bases for employment and management progression in the corporation.

Speaking about the parameters, Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division of the NNPC, Dr. Kennie Obateru, who also clarified recent appointments in the corporation, stated that the fairness in the appointment of the new employees was such that many of the new employees expressed astonishments securing employment in the national oil company without any godfather.

The 1,050 graduate trainees were recently recruited by the NNPC and assumed duty virtually on Monday, May 4, 2020, due to the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.

Obateru further stated that the experiences of the long-time employees of NNPC were not dissimilar to those of the new intakes, adding that professional competence, adherence to the principle of transparency and accountability informed the recent top management appointment executed in the first week of March this year.

He further explained that the principle of federal character was also a factor in the progression of the new appointees.

Throwing more light, Obateru stated that many top management officers of the corporation were moved to new positions while some were promoted based on their verifiable track records of performance, saying some Chief Operating Officers, Group General Managers and Managing Directors of subsidiaries were affected in what some industry analysts described as the most objective placement exercise in the recent history of the National Oil Company.