Except Asiwaju makes a last minute u-turn, Roland Onoriode Ewubare will be returning to the NNPCL, an organisation he resigned from in 2020 as its Chief Operating Officer officer to resume in same office.
The abrupt and shocking resignation of the Delta State born lawyer from one of the highest profile jobs in Nigeria sent many tongues wagging then. He later issued a statement that the decision was to enable him relocate to the US to be with his family because of the uncertainty wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Ewubare was GGM NAPIMS at the NNPC and later as its Chief Operating Officer.
Who is Roland Onoriode Ewubare?
He holds two Master of Laws degrees, one from Queen Mary College, University of London, and the other from Harvard Law School. He started off as an Academic, teaching at the Nigerian Law School; then later left for the United States where he worked in New York as a Corporate Associate in one of the largest law firms in the world. Subsequently, he served in Schlumberger, a foremost oilfield services company as Corporate Counsel in Silicon Valley, New York and returned as an Executive Director of Schlumberger in Nigeria.
He then left Schlumberger to return to the US to start a private equity firm with some partners, before taking a leave of absence to return to Nigeria to become the Executive Secretary of the National Human Rights Commission.