Nigeria's minister of state for oil, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, is demanding greater transparency in how state-owned NNPC awards an estimated $15bn/yr of crude and product supply contracts. Kachikwu is at loggerheads with NNPC managing director Maikanti Kacalla Baru, who chairs the company's NTB subsidiary that publicises the tenders and selects the winning bidders. President Muhammadu Buhari or his cabinet then approves the list of successful applicants. Kachikwu insists that he and the firm's entire board should have a role in the awards. Vice-president Yemi Osinbajo has been Nigeria's acting leader during Buhari's extended absences from the country to receive medical treatment for an undisclosed condition.
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