Dr Ibe Kachikwu, Nigeria’s Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, is to become the next president of the African Petroleum Producers Organisation (APPO).
The announcement, made Monday in Abuja, says the development is a new phase which will aid the re-strategising for the emerging challenges of the global oil industry.
Kachikwu is taking over from Michel Boukar as president of APPO, an organisation of African countries producing petroleum; founded in 1986 in Lagos, with Congo Brazzaville as its headquarters.
The organisation has 14 member countries which are Algeria, Angola, Benin, Cameroon, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo Brazzaville, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, South Africa, Libya and Nigeria.
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