NLNG Gets New Deputy MD, To Assume Office, April 14

A new Deputy Managing Director for the  Nigeria Liquified Natural Gas Limited (NLNG), Mr. Olalekan Olufemi Ogunleye, has been appointed to succeed Engr. Sadeeq Mai-Bornu, as the tenure of the latter comes to an end next month.
General Manager, External Relations and Sustainable Development, NLNG, Mr Andy Odeh, in a chat with newsmen, noted that Ogunleye, expected to assume office in his new position, on April 14, 2022,  would conclude his tenure as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Gas Aggregation Company Nigeria Limited (GACN).
Odeh stated that Ogunleye had contributed a great deal to the growth and repositioning of GACN since 2016, during the period he captained the company.
“Mr Ogunleye, a lawyer, comes to NLNG with rich gas industry experience. At GACN, he oversees adequate gas supply to the domestic market and manages the interface between gas buyers and sellers. He was strategic to the Federal Government’sGas Programmes, Decade of Gas and the Autogas initiatives.
“Before his appointment at GACN, Mr Ogunleye served as the General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of N-Gas Limited, a joint venture company between 2018 and 2019; and Company Secretary and Legal Adviser at Nigerian Gas Marketing Company Limited (2017-2019) and Nigerian Gas Company Limited (2014 – 2018), both subsidiaries of NNPC”, he said.
Mai-Bornu, who had held the position, since April 2016, would now return to his parent company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPC, at the expiration of his tenure come April, 2022.
Odeh observed that Sadeeq had been instrumental to the Federal Government’s gas programmes.
According to him, “during his tenure, Sadeeq contributed significantly to repositioning NLNG as a globally competitive LNG company and oversaw vital projects, including the Train 7 project, re-marketing of volumes for Trains 1-3, and the expansion of Company’s domestic LPG market initiative”.
Odeh added, “he also oversaw the implementation of the ongoing Bodo-Bonny Road project, one of NLNG’s biggest CSR initiatives, and the NLNG Realigning to Win project, an organisational improvement initiative that has positioned NLNG as a more effective company,”

By: Tonye Nria-Dappa