President Bola Tinubu has asked the senate to confirm the nominations of new chief executives for the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA).
The request followed the resignation of Farouk Ahmed as the chief executive of the NMDPRA and Gbenga Komolafe, chief executive of the NUPRC.
Ahmed and Komolafe were appointed in 2021 by the late former Muhammadu Buhari to head the two regulatory agencies created under the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA).
In separate letters to the senate, Tinubu nominated Oritsemeyiwa Amanorisewo Eyesan as chief executive of the NUPRC and Saidu Aliyu Mohammed as chief executive of the NMDPRA.
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Tinubu requested the senate to expedite consideration and confirmation of the nominees.
Eyesan is a graduate of economics from the University of Benin and has spent nearly 33 years at the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) and its subsidiaries.
Eyesan retired as executive vice-president, upstream, in 2024.
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She previously served as group general manager of corporate planning and strategy at the NNPC between 2019 and 2023.
Mohammed, born in 1957 in Gombe, graduated from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1981 with a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering.
He was recently announced as an independent non-executive director at Seplat Energy.
Mohammed previously served as the managing director of the Kaduna Refining and Petrochemical Company and the Nigerian Gas Company.
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He also chaired the boards of the West African Gas Pipeline Company, Nigeria LNG subsidiaries, and NNPC Retail.
Mohammed served as group executive director and chief operating officer, gas and power directorate, where he provided strategic leadership on major gas projects and policy frameworks, including the gas masterplan, gas network code and contributions to the PIA.
