NIGERIANS APPLAUD BUHARI ON ACTION TOWARDS KACHIKWU-BARU MISCONCEPTIONS, TIP MR. INTEGRITY FOR 2019 RE-ELECTION A cross-section of Nigerians has commended the President, General Muhammadu Buhari, for his deft management of what could easily have blown into a national crisis – the exchanges between the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Dr. Ibe Kachikwu, and the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Maikanti Baru. The issues broke into the open following an internal memorandum dated August 30, this year, addressed to the President by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, highlighting what he described as procedural infringements by the NNPC Group Managing Director, including allegations of bypassing the Minister of State, who is also Chairman of the NNPC Board, and failing to report to the Board in key decision like the awarding of major contracts. That the memo leaked to the mass media apparently triggered chains ...