{"id":8495,"date":"2025-08-29T06:49:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=8495"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:56:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:56:23","slug":"nnpc-boss-ojulari-charters-private-jets-for-brazil-trip-two-months-after-same-luxury-rwanda-retreat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2025\/08\/29\/nnpc-boss-ojulari-charters-private-jets-for-brazil-trip-two-months-after-same-luxury-rwanda-retreat\/","title":{"rendered":"NNPC Boss Ojulari Charters Private Jets For Brazil Trip Two Months After Same Luxury Rwanda Retreat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content lead\">\n<div>\n<p>The NNPC board, chaired by Ahmadu Musa Kida and managed by Ojulari, lodged at the upscale Kigali Marriott Hotel, where the company reportedly booked the entire facility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content story\">\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, under the leadership of its Group Chief Executive Officer, Bashir Ojulari, has chartered private jets for a trip to Brazil,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8497\" src=\"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/download-27.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/>the same way they chartered 5 private jets to Rwanda<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">Details of the Brazil mission remain unclear, but it comes barely two months after SaharaReporters exclusively exposed how the NNPC Board flew to Kigali, Rwanda, for a lavish retreat, just days after the Nigerian Senate raised concerns about the company\u2019s audited financial accounts.<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">\u201cJust two months after the extravagant Kigali retreat, NNPC management boss has chartered private jets to a trip to Brazil,\u201d a top source said.<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">Sources confirmed that at least five private jets were arranged to convey board members and top management to Kigali. The trip, they said, was coordinated by Abdullahi Bashir-Haske, founder of AA &amp; R Investment Group and son-in-law to former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">The NNPC board, chaired by Ahmadu Musa Kida and managed by Ojulari, lodged at the upscale Kigali Marriott Hotel, where the company reportedly booked the entire facility.<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">Room rates at the hotel range from $173 per night for standard suites to nearly $3,800 for luxury accommodations, with an average of $320 per night.<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">According to multiple insiders, four of the five jets used for the Kigali retreat were provided by Bashir-Haske, a businessman with longstanding ties to Nigeria\u2019s political elite and energy sector deals.<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">Bashir-Haske was declared wanted for alleged criminal conspiracy and money laundering.<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">His company, AA &amp; R Investment Group, has previously been linked to oil bloc allocations. When contacted, he neither answered calls nor offered any comment.<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">However, a contact by an intermediary, who denied that Bashir-Haske was involved in arranging the jets and appealed that the story not be published. Asked why Bashir-Haske would not speak directly, the caller said he was not willing to engage with a journalist.<\/p>\n<p data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\" data-removefontsize=\"true\">Critics have long accused NNPC of being bloated, corrupt, and ineffective, despite its central role in Nigeria\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NNPC board, chaired by Ahmadu Musa Kida and managed by Ojulari, lodged at the upscale Kigali Marriott Hotel, where the company reportedly booked the entire facility. &nbsp; The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8498,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8495\/revisions\/8498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}