President Muhammadu Buhari has sacked the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC),Joseph Thlama Dawha, and appointed Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu.
The new GMD, Kachukwu who hails from Onicha-Ugbo in Delta State is a first class graduate of law from the university of Nigeria, Nsukka and the Nigeria law school. He has also got his masters and doctorate degree in law from Harvard law school.
He started his working career with the Nigerian/American Merchant Bank before moving on to Texaco Nigeria Limited, from where he joined Exxon-Mobil.