Buhari I + IIMinister of Petroleum Resources· 29 May 2015 — 29 May 2023
Muhammadu Buhari (concurrent)
Held the substantive Petroleum portfolio for both terms. Ministers of State: Kachikwu, then Sylva.
The record
President Buhari assumed the substantive Petroleum Resources portfolio at his inauguration on 29 May 2015 and held it through the end of his second term on 29 May 2023.
Ministers of State for Petroleum Resources during this period were Dr. Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu (November 2015 – May 2019), former NNPC GMD, and Chief Timipre Sylva (August 2019 – May 2023), former Governor of Bayelsa State.
The Petroleum Industry Act was signed into law by Buhari on 16 August 2021, dissolving NNPC and creating NNPC Limited, the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission, and the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority.
Sources
- Petroleum Industry Act 2021 — Federal Government Gazette
- Presidential Letter of Appointment, Ministers of State, 2015 and 2019
Tier 1 · primary
Courts. Gazettes. National archives.
Tier 2 · corroborating
OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.
Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged
Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.