The staff strength of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited went down by 197 or 3.46 per cent to 5,495 at the end of the first quarter of 2025 from 5,692 at the end of the first quarter of 2024.
This information was revealed by the national oil firm, which also said its latest workforce was 1.28 per cent or 71 staff lower than the 5,566 recorded in the fourth quarter of 2024.
The report added that 81.8 per cent of the company’s employees are males, while 18.2 per cent are females.
Giving a breakdown of its employees, NNPC disclosed that it has 188 workers in its junior category, comprising 179 males and nine females; while its senior category has 4,118 employees, made up of 3,389 males and 729 females.
Furthermore, the state oil firm said it has 1,025 staff in its middle management category as at the end of the first quarter of 2025, consisting of 803 males and 222 females; while in the top management category, it had 122 males and 42 females, bringing the total staff strength in that category to 164.
Further analysis of its employee data showed that the NNPC had only a staff, a male, in its Junior Staff 2 (JS2) category; 187 members of staff in its JS 1 category; 33 staff in its Senior Staff 7 (SS7) category; 64 staff in its SS6 category; 1,081 staff and 163 staff in its SS5 and SS4 categories, respectively.
In its SS3, SS2 and SS1 category, the NNPC Limited had 354 staff, 488 staff and 1,935 staff, respectively; while in its Management 6 (M6) cadre, the NNPCL had 724 staff.
NNPC had 301 staff, 120 staff, 38 staff, five staff and one staff in its M5, M4, M3, M2 and M1 cadres, respectively.
Recall that President Bola Tinubu in April sacked the former chief executive of the NNPC, Mr Mele Kolo Kyari; the board chairman of the corporation, Mr Pius Akinyelure, and all other board members.
The sacked chief executive was replaced by Mr Bashir Bayo Ojulari, while Mr Ahmadu Musa Kida was appointed non-executive chairman.
The NNPC also carried out a restructuring with a number of senior management staff disengaged, including Mr Bala Wunti, former chief executive of the National Petroleum Investment Management Services (NAPIMS); Mr Ibrahim Onoja, former managing director of the Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) and Mr Lawal Sade, the chief compliance officer and former managing director of NNPC Trading, among others.