May 2020) was the former Group Managing Director (GMD). He was appointed Group Managing Director on 4 July 2016, under the presidency of Muhammadu Buhari; he succeeded Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, the Nigerian Minister of State for Petroleum (2015–2019). Organisational structure The NNPC's business operations are managed through Strategic Business and Corporate Services Units (SBUs/CSUs) in diverse locations across Nigeria. In that case; The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation initiated a recruitment scheme and since then, until date the NNPC recruitment have been a yearly scheme. The NNPC Group comprises the NNPC Board, the group managing director's office, Seven operational units as listed below. Each of the units is headed by a chief operating officer (COO). Its divisions are headed by group general managers (GGM), while its subsidiary companies are headed by managing directors. NNPC has several subsidiaries, two partly owned subsidiaries and 16 associated companies. Autonomous Business Units: Upstream Company Downstream Company Refining Company Ventures Company Gas & Power Company Corporate Services Units: Finance and Accounts Corporate Services Strategic Business & Corporate Services Units: NNPC acquired Oando's OVH Energy in September 2022 and took over it's 380 filling stations. Installations NNPC has sole responsibility for upstream and downstream developments, and is also charged with regulating and supervising the oil industry on behalf of the Nigerian Government. In 1988, the corporation was commercialised into 11 strategic business units, covering the entire spectrum of oil industry operations: exploration and production, gas development, refining, distribution, petrochemicals, engineering, and commercial investments. On Wednesday July 10, 2019 at a meeting of Nigeria’s revenue generating and monitoring agencies with the leadership of the Senate at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja, the group's managing director, Mele Kyari called for adequate funding of the petroleum sector. The subsidiary companies include the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC). Legal premise According to the Nigerian constitution, all minerals, gas, and oil the country possesses are legally the property of the Nigerian federal government. As such, the oil corporations operating in Nigeria appropriate portions of their revenue to the government, which accrues nearly 60% of the revenue generated by the oil industry in this manner. The revenue gained by the NNPC accounts for 76% of federal government revenue and 40% of the entire country's GDP. As of 2000, oil and gas exports account for 98% of Nigerian export earnings. Corruption at the NNPC KPMG Report In December 2011, the Nigerian government permitted