President Muhammad Buhari recently appointed Mr. Ibe Kachikwu, someone with Law background as Group Managing Director of Nigeria’s national oil company, NNPC. I’m sure a lot of people would have been surprised. This is absolutely in order. You don’t need to be a Geologist or Petroleum/Chemical Engineer before you run an oil company. Agreed that oil and gas is a technical industry, but at some point in the career ladder, you need more than technical knowledge, you need management knowledge. CEO-ing any company goes beyond the technical aspect of the company’s activities. How do you structure deals? How do you read global economic […]