NNPC boss to speak at Aret Adams Lecture

Maikanti Baru , Group Managing Director (GMD), Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation will be the Guest Speaker at this year’s 14th Annual Aret Adams Memorial lecture series slated for 23rd February, 2017 at the Muson Centre (Agip Hall) Onikan, Lagos.

Akin Jokojeje, Programme’s coordinator of Aret Adams Foundation said that Odein Ajumogobia (former Minister of Foreign Affairs) will be the Chairman.

This year’s lecture with a theme, tagged “Find More, Produce More” is expected   to have in attendance major players and stakeholders in the Oil and Gas industry, financial institutions as well as captains of industries.

Jokojeje said that the Foundation was established in honour of the late Chief Godwin Aret Adams, the first Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (1988 to 1990), who later became the Special Adviser on Petroleum Resources to former Head of State, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Gen. Abdulsalam Abubakar (rtd) in1998, adding that Aret Adams made outstanding contributions toward the growth of Nigeria’s Oil & Gas industry and the nation’s economy in general.

The Foundation, Jokojeje said is aimed at promoting and building educational capacity and policy formulations. He disclosed that the National Energy policy delivered to the Federal government in April 1980 was formulated by the late Aret Adams and that it was him that re-energized negotiations that led to the successful execution of shareholders agreements for the execution of the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) project in 1989 and many others.