NAE - Key Persons
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- Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation
Engr. Andrew Laah Yakubu is the Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation; as the GMD of NNPC, he amongst others responsibilities manages the interests and investments of the Government in the Nigerian Oil & Gas Oil industry. He has played a significant role in the development of the industry.
Many institutions, corporate establishments, academics and students have benefited immensely from his wealth of experience in the Oil & Gas industry; he is a well-grounded engineer, highly experienced corporate administrator, an accomplished achiever and a Philanthropist.
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- Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace
Ayodeji O. Demuren is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia, USA, a position he has held since 1996. He is currently the Chairman of the Promotions and Tenure Committee in the University. He studied in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College of Science and Technology, London and graduated with a B.Sc. degree in 1975. He then pursued graduate studies at the same institution, culminating with a Ph.D. degree in 1979. He is registered as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer in the UK.
He was admitted an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in 1995. He was elected a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK (IMECHE) in 1997. He became a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2011. He has taught and performed research in various universities in Nigeria, Germany, Japan and USA. In addition, he has been a consultant to several companies in the power generation and aerospace industries, including Electricite de France, and NASA. He has made contributions in three broad areas of research: Complex turbulence flow computations with Reynolds stress modeling, environmental fluid mechanics through modeling of jets in cross flow, and analysis and development of numerical methods for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications. He has over 100 publications; many in the top journals in the field. His pioneering work on turbulence-driven secondary motion in non-circular ducts, published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics in 1984, has been recognized worldwide; according to Google Scholar, it has received over 300 citations since publication.
He received recognition for his research on accuracy of computational methods with the 1995 Lewis Moody award of the ASME Fluids Engineering Division. Professor Demuren has developed and taught numerous courses, including, fluid mechanics, computational methods, heat transfer, and turbulence. In addition, he has graduated 18 doctoral and masters graduate students, who now hold prominent positions in academia, engineering and financial industries.
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- Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware
Babatunde A. Ogunnaike joined the UD faculty in 2002 as a professor with appointments in the Department of Chemical Engineering (now the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering) and the Delaware Biotechnology Institute's Center for Systems Biology, after a 13-year research career with DuPont.
He was appointed William L. Friend Professor of Chemical Engineering in 2004 and William L. Friend Chaired Professor in 2008. He became deputy dean for the College of Engineering in 2010 and interim dean of engineering in 2011.
Ogunnaike was elected to the National Academy of Engineering and the Nigerian Academy of Engineering in 2012.
After receiving a bachelors degree in chemical engineering from the University of Lagos in Nigeria in 1976, he earned a masters degree in statistics and a doctorate in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin Madison in 1981.
Ogunnaike is the author or editor of four books and more than 75 papers and book chapters, and his textbooks have been used to educate and train engineers in instrumentation, systems and control at more than 29 universities.
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- Member of TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
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- Member of the OIL & GAS COMMITTEE
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- Chairman of the MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
- Member of the OIL & GAS COMMITTEE
- Vice - Chairman
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- ENGINEERING EDUCATION COMMITTEE / ENGINEERING EDUCATION COMMITTEE
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- Vice - Chairman
- Chairman of TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
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- Member of the TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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- Member of the OIL & GAS COMMITTEE
- Member of the TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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- Member of the MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
- Member of the OIL & GAS COMMITTEE
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- Chairman of the OIL & GAS COMMITTEE
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- Chairman of the TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
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- Member of TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE
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- Member of the FINANCE COMMITTEE
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- Member of the FINANCE COMMITTEE
- Treasurer
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- Vice - Chairman
- Professor
Professor Adefila voluntarily retired from full University service, in February 2014, to serve as Chairman in Engineering and Environmental Management Services Limited (EEMS), Abuja. He is also developing a medium scale agricultural and mineral materials processing enterprise - ILF Infinite Affairs Limited - in his local government area, for the purposes of empowerment and inspiration.
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- Chairman of the FINANCE COMMITTEE
- Vice - Chairman
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- COREN Registered Engineer
Prof. Beredugo is a COREN registered Engineer and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering; a Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers, a member of the Nigerian Geotechnical Society, and International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering. In 2008 he was conferred with the National honour of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).
Prof. Beredugo has served on many boards and committees. He was a Member, Rivers State Advisory Council on Education, 1973-1974 Member, Rivers State Schools Management Board, 1974-1975; Chairman, Rivers State Cricket Association, 1974; Director, Pan African Bank Ltd., 1974; Member, Federal Students Loans Board, 1974-1976; Member of Council, Council of Registered Engineers of Nigeria, 1974 - 1976; Chairman, Nigerian Society of Engineers, Port Harcourt Branch, 1974-1976 and 1982-1987; Member, Committee on Tropical Soils, International Society of Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering 1982-1986; Member, Rivers State Contracts Review Committee, 1984-1985; Member, Board of Trustees, Christ Church (International), Port Harcourt, 1984- 1986; Chairman, Education and Training Committee, Nigerian Society of Engineers, 1985 to 1987; President, Rotary Club of Port Harcourt, 1981/82; Member, Bayelsa State Governors Advisory Committee, July 1999 to 2001; Member Committee of Assessors on Engineering & Technology, Nigerian National Merit Award 1999-2001; Member, Engineering Interview Panel of 2000/2001 Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Award and others too numerous to mention.
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- Chairman of the MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
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- Member of the OIL & GAS COMMITTEE
Engr. Siky A. Aliyu was born on 16 th May, 1958. He holds a BSc(Hons) degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Newcastle Upon-Tyne (U.K.) where he graduated in June 1983.
Siky has had over 35 years of experience in the midstream and downstream sectors of Oil and Gas Industry in Nigeria, U.K, the Netherlands and the USA. He started his career in November 1983 at Warri Refinery and Petrochemical Company and was seconded to Nigeria LNG Ltd as a Senior Process Engineer in December 1989.
While in NLNG, he was involved in all aspects of the company's project development and implementation. He was the first Nigerian in NLNG to be appointed lead process engineer in 2002, Commissioning Manager for NLNGPlus (Trains 4 and 5) Project in 2004, and Technical Services Manager in 2006. He led a team that championed many initiatives such as Operational flare reduction from 3.5% to 0.5% of feed gas intake, Debottlenecking and Re-rating studies for Trains 1-3 & for Trains 4&5 respectively, and Optimization of LNG trains and Gas Turbine Generators during gas supply shortage situation.
He returned to NNPC in 2010 as Manager Gas Processing Facilities in Gas & Power Directorate. Later that year, he was deployed to Brass LNG as a Shareholder Subject Matter Expert in LNG to assist in evaluating the Technical & Commercial EPC bids received from EPC Contractors.
In 2011, he was promoted to General Manager Brass LNG where he provided overall direction and management to the Brass LNG Project division supervising EPC Contract negotiations of the Project. He also led the initiative for further optimization of the Project to reduce Capex. He worked for 3 years in the Bechtel Inc. offices in Houston, USA where he supervised the FEED verification exercise and successfully negotiated the Engineering & Procurement Contract with Bechthel Inc., and advanced the negotiations of the Process Licensing Agreement with ConocoPhillips.
He was Managing Director of National Engineering & Technical Company (NETCO) from March 2016 until May 2018. During his tenure, NETCO substantially increased revenues from N9.3b in 2015 to N22.5b in 2017 and grew operating profit from a loss of N68m in 2015 to N2.07b in 2017, paid a total of N1.36b dividends to NNPC and migrated NETCO to the latest ISO-9001-2015 and ISO-14001-2015. He repositioned NETCO as a leading and go-to Engineering Company in Nigeria and charted the path of sustainable growth for the Company.
He is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers, The Institution of Chemical Engineers (U.K) and Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers. He is an alumnus of the Senior Executive programs at INSEAD Business School and Harvard. He authored a Chemical Engineering textbook in 1989 and was a member of the Council of NSChE from 1991-1996.
He now works as an independent Energy Consultant and Technical Director and member of the Board of Gas & Energy Resources Consulting Ltd. Siky is married to his heartthrob Oluremi, an accomplished Internist and Occupational Physician, and they are blessed with three girls and two boys.
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- Member of the MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
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- QUALITY & STANDARDS COMMITTEE / QUALITY & STANDARDS COMMITTEE
Prof. Ayodele Francis Ogunye was born on July 31, 1942. He attended Molusi College, Ijebu-Igbo between 1956 and 1960 and Government College Ibadan on Ijebu-Igbo Local Government Scholarship to read for the HSC in 1961.He taught briefly at Molusi College, Ijebu-Igbo from December 1962 after the HSC and was admitted to Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology, University of London, London, England on the Federal Government Scholarship in September 1963 to read for a degree course in Chemical Engineering, which he completed in June 1966.
After the completion of the degree and the Diploma of City and Guilds Institute of London at Imperial College, London, he proceeded to the University of Waterloo, Canada, where he completed the Masters degree in 1967 and the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemical Engineering in 1969. On January 6 1970, he was named the Dean of Engineering Post Doctoral Distinction Fellow. He held this position until August 27, 1970 when he returned to Nigeria.
He was appointed Lecturer Grade II in Chemical Engineering from September 2, 1970 at the University of Ife, Ile-Ife and promoted Lecturer Grade I in October 1971. He left Ife to start the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Lagos in August 1973 as a Senior Lecturer. At Unilag, he was appointed Associate Professor in June 1976 and Professor in March 1979 at the age of Thirty Six. He was at different times, Acting Head and Head of the Department, until he voluntarily resigned as the Head, eighteen months before the expiry of his term, on October 1, 1980. During the period, he organized and built the Department at the University of Lagos in a short time. He recruited an excellent group of academic staff comparable in training and scholarly attainment with first class institutions in Chemical Engineering in other parts of the world.
Prof Ogunye had a traumatic break in his brilliant academic career that affected his research activities when in December 1980 his appointment was terminated along with five other Professors and the Registrar of the University. He returned to the University in July 1987. Prof. Ogunye's research papers have been cited by numerous authors in British, American, Canadian, Japanese, Russian, German, Polish Journals and top undergraduate and postgraduate text books in Great Britain and North America.
Professor Ogunye is pioneering research in the area of Optimal Control of Reactors with Catalyst Decay over four decades ago is still the reference point for present day researchers and process control practitioners in this area. Between 1971 and 1973, Prof. Ogunye was consultant to USA National Academy of Engineering, advising on Computer Aids to Chemical Engineering Education. He was also a Canadian International Development Agency/National Research Council Fellowship Award recipient between 1976 and 1978.
Prof Ogunye served University of Lagos meritoriously despite the traumatic break. He was at various times elected to serve on highest and most sensitive University statutory Committees. He retired after 17 years as Professor of Chemical Engineering, University of Lagos, in September 1995.
On his retirement he endowed the Department which he started in 1973 with his gratuity and his monthly pension since retirement. The endowment is presently managed by the Board of Trustees of Prof. A. F. Ogunye Trust Fund by eminent Nigerians.
Prof. Ogunye served on the Council of Nigerian Society of Engineers and has been on the Council of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering since its inception in 1999. He is a Registered Engineer of U.K and Nigeria. He was elected Fellow of The British Institution of Chemical Engineers in 1978 as the second Nigerian so elected to that professional membership grade. He is also a Fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers, Foundation Fellow, Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers, Foundation Fellow and past President of Nigerian Academy of Engineering, past President of Nigerian Society of Chemical Engineers.
Prof. Ogunye currently serves on the boards of some companies which include Omatek Ventures PLC and chairs the board of three private companies including Phoenix Oil Company Nigeria Limited. He is currently the Pro-Rector and Chairman of Council, Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic, Ijebu-Igbo.
Prof. Emeritus Esogbue has been honored by various Nigerian government and countless Diaspora organizations for his professional excellence, integrity, leadership and lifelong dedication to the promotion of Nigerias image and the Diaspora cause. Professor Emeritus Augustine Esogbue is the recipient of the 2013 Stephen Oluwole Awokoya Foundation for Science Education Distinguished Partner in Science Education Award in recognition of his interest, contributions and encouragement to the growth of Science Education and Youth Development in Nigeria. In September 2013, he was presented to and honored by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan in New York as Top Among the Top Ten Nigerian Americans uplifting Nigerias image globally. The Christian Association of Nigerian Americans (CANAN) presented him with their Lifetime Achievement in Engineering and Technology award while the Board of Trustees of Nigerians in Diaspora Organization of North America (NiDOA) also presented him with their Excellence in Leadership award. Earlier in 2009, the Nigerians in Diaspora of Europe (NiDOE) on behalf of the Global Diaspora Group at the end of the Diaspora Day celebrations in Abuja had honored his leadership, professional excellence and distinguished contributions to the Diaspora Policy. At the Nigerian Independence Day Celebrations in Atlanta in 2013, Ambassador G. Teneilabe presented him, on behalf of the Consulate General and Nigerians in the South Eastern United States of America, a "Lifetime Achievement, Professional Excellence, and Image Award".
Prof. Joseph Olorunfemi Ojo obtained his B.Eng and M.Eng degree in Electrical Engineering from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in 1977 and 1980. He thereafter proceeded to University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA where he obtained Ph.D in Electrical Engineering in 1987 respectively.
On completion of his graduate studies in Wisconsin, he served as a Lecturer in Department of Electrical Engineering at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, between 1978 and 1982. In 1982-1988, he was appointed as a Teaching and Research Assistant and Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. In 1988, he joined Tennessee Technology University, Cookeville, Tennessee where he rose to become Professor of Electrical Engineering 1n 1998. He was later appointed to the TVA chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009 to date. Professor Ojo had made significant contributions to the understanding and analysis of dual stator electric machines and power electronic converters. They are now used for high power Megawatt range sensitive renewable power generation, all electric ships and aircrafts. He developed the vector control schemes of the machines, through which the maximization and selection of the air-gap flux results in the attainment of maximum torque. His work, funded by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR), provides the basis for the selection of appropriate motor drives and generators for the proposed U.S. all electric Naval ships and enables the recent exploration of the dual winding induction machine for MW offshore wind power generation in Scotland and marine power generation in China.
Prof. Ojo 1995 research which outline the process of self-excitation and de-excitation of the induction generators, using concepts of system bifurcations have opened up the possibility of understanding the operability regimes and the role of converters in enhancing and regulating generator operations. Research on the application of nonlinear dynamics on the Nigerian Electric Power Systems (Funded by the U.S. National Foundation) has revealed factors leading to perennial voltage collapse, technical reasons why Lagos could not be supplied with adequate power even if there is enough generation and remedial actions to be taken to ensure reliable and adequate power supply in the country. He received the Caplenor Faculty Research Award, Kinslow Award, Sigma XI Research Award and IEEE Industry Application Society Paper Award. He has written many books and has published in several journals.
He is a Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC)and Institute of Electrical Engineering (IEE) and the Nigerian Academy of Engineering.
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- COREN Registered Engineer
Prof. Olatunbosun is a COREN Registered Engineer, a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK, Senior Member, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, USA, Member, Nigerian Society of Engineers and Member, Society of Automotive Engineers (2006). He was President, Engineering Forum of Nigerians, (UK) from 2009 to 2011. He is happily married with children.