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Dawha to concentrate efforts on three-point agenda at NNPC

By Businessnews Staff on September 16, 2014

The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr. Joseph Dawha, has said that he is going to channel efforts and resources available to him in achieving three key programmes while he lasts at the helm of affairs of NNPC.

Dawha said yesterday in Abuja that the NNPC under his watch would in the short term focus on ramping up the crude oil production capacity of its upstream subsidiary, the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) to 250,000 barrels of crude oil per day (bpd), boost gas supply and expand gas infrastructure to enhance availability of gas for power generation and feedstock for gas-based industries.

He also said he would push to instill a culture of performance and productivity at the NNPC through the constant drive for improvement in management processes.
A statement from the Group General Manager, Public Affairs of NNPC, Ohi Alegbe, stated that Dawha made this disclosure when he took to task the corporation’s information technology division on supporting his agenda.

Represented by the Group Executive Director, Business Development, Dr. Attahiru Yussuf, Dawha said at the corporation’s workshop on knowledge sharing and agenda setting that the division ought to be strategic and proactive in generating ideas and deploying cutting-edge technologies that could promote the efficient and speedy achievement of his three key short-term programmes.

“I urge you to re-equip yourselves in order to play a leading role in accelerating change across the entire corporation. To lead this transformation, our IT executives must re-imagine their roles by seeing themselves and encouraging others to see them as chief executives of an information business.

“Like any chief executive, our IT leadership should bring vision, direction, and organisation to NNPC’s big data investment priorities. That means engaging internal customers on their biggest challenges while attracting the best talents and suppliers; most importantly, it means being accountable for execution and results,” Dawha said.

He said on his expectation from the workshop that he wants firm decisions on five levers that are required to step up the impact of IT in NNPC to enable it achieve its corporate aspirations.

The five levers he said are: effective IT governance, availability and stability of connectivity, supportive technology adoption programme, pace of technology assimilation capacity and consistent use of proven methodology.

“At the end of this one-day session, I believe the engineering and technology directorate will come out with a set of service level performance standards which we are all expected to hold them to,” Dawha said.

The statement also quoted the Group Executive Director in charge of the Engineering and Technology Directorate, Adebayo Ibirogba, to have said that the main objective of the workshop was to get NNPC to compare notes with the best in Nigeria on how they think, plan, and organise their IT businesses.

Ibirogba said: “Today, we are at the eve of an even faster acceleration in the scope, scale and economic impact of technology as it ushers in a new age of artificial intelligence, consumer gadgetry, instant communication, and boundless information. NNPC simply cannot afford to miss the boat.”

He thus asked participants to use the workshop to develop new mindset that will recognise information technology not just as a primary tool for cutting costs and boosting productivity, but as a big business in itself.

Attendees at the workshop included top management of the NNPC such as the Group Executive Director, Refining and Petrochemicals, Ian Gregory Udoh; Group Executive Director, Corporate Services, Dr. Dan Efebo; Group Executive Director Commercial and Investment, Hajia Mata Abdurrahman and Company Secretary and Legal Adviser, Mr. Ikechukwu Oguine.

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