The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Dr Emmanuel Kachikwu, has fired top employees of the corporation, including the heads of the National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS) and the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC).

Sources familiar with the development, who asked to remain anonymous because they are not authorised to speak on the action, said that at least thirty top personnel at the NNPC and various subsidiaries were retired.

“This is the shake up the world has been expecting,” one source said. “GM Commercial, GM NNPC Retail, GM Sales and Marketing NNPC Retail, GM Operations NNPC, were also retired… all gone for good,” the source added.

Some of the new replacements are Esther Nnmadi-Ogbue – MD PPMC; Inuwa Ibrahim Waya – MD Hyson; Babatunde Bakare – MD, NGC; Abubakar Mai-Bornu – MD, NPDC; Abdulkadir Saidu – MD, Duke Oil; Babatunde Victor Adeniran – GED C&I; Chidi Momah – GGM, Company Secretary and Legal Advisor and Dafe Sejebor – GGM NAPIMS.

It was also gathered that replacements have been appointed for the retired personnel with over two dozen promotions and redeployed scheduled.

The NNPC is expected to make the development public anytime from today, the sources said.