Author: Jack Okude

BASHIR Bayo Ojulari, a mechanical engineer versed in the ecosystem of oil and gas, has spent roughly four months on the beat as Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL). And if morning shows the day, as ideally it should, then the nation’s oil and gas behemoth is in safe hands. NNPCL even with all the challenges in recent years, is still the largest state-owned oil and gas facility in Africa. But it has been afflicted by a leadership distortion syndrome which has seen it experience high leadership turnover. A particular managing director (Shehu Ladan)…