{"id":195261,"date":"2025-04-03T05:16:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-meet-ex-basketballer-appointed-as-nnpc-board-chair-new-gceo\/"},"modified":"2025-04-03T05:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T03:16:38","slug":"nigeria-meet-ex-basketballer-appointed-as-nnpc-board-chair-new-gceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-meet-ex-basketballer-appointed-as-nnpc-board-chair-new-gceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Meet Ex-Basketballer Appointed As NNPC Board Chair &#8211; New Gceo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\"><em>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has dissolved the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited board, removing its Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari and board chairman Pius Akinyelure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga announced the sweeping changes, effective April 2, 2025, in a statement early Wednesday posted on X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Meet Kida, ex-basketballer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">According to the statement, the new board chairman, Ahmadu Musa Kida hails from Borno State and is an alumnus of Ahmadu Bello University,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504020567.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has dissolved the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited board, removing its Group Chief Executive Officer, Mele Kyari and board chairman Pius Akinyelure. Presidential spokesperson Bayo Onanuga announced the sweeping changes, effective April 2, 2025, in a statement early Wednesday posted on X. Meet Kida, ex-basketballer According to the statement, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":195262,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10924,6727,6412,51030,51031,6508,257,4687,393,6943,254],"class_list":["post-195261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appointed","tag-board","tag-chair","tag-exbasketballer","tag-gceo","tag-meet","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nnpc","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}