The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) is an oil & gas industry association comprising key players in the downstream sector, especially depot owners and marketers.
About Us
Who is DAPPMAN?
DAPPMAN has a vision to unite its members, advise, encourage and support government in formulating and implementing policies designed to promote economic growth with a focus on the downstream petroleum industry.
Through its large network of members across the country and its experienced elected executive council (EXCO); DAPPMAN is well positioned to represent stakeholders in policy formation and discussions with government.
Having been an informal group since 2001 and formally registered in 2017, DAPPMAN will continue to lead the conversation on transforming the Downstream Petroleum industry.
We at DAPPMAN regard ourselves as a pioneering association of downstream players looking to transform the Nigerian Downstream Petroleum Industry, one step at a time.
Our Vision
A leading association shaping the sustainable transformation of the downstream oil and gas industry.
Our Mission
To support members in navigating the operating landscape and promote an enabling business environment for all stakeholders.
Core Values
Value we believe and live by – LIST²
Transforming the downstream
industry
Governing Council
Dame Winifred N. Akpani
Chairman
Dame Winifred N. Akpani
Chairman
Dame Winifred N. Akpani, a BSc. Graduate of Mathematics from the University of Benin and a postgraduate Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Lagos decided afterall, she would like to be an Accountant. The opportunity came when she started as a Trainee Accountant in an audit firm – Oni Lasebikan and Co (now Ernst and Young) in 1987 from where she moved on to Arthur Anderson & Co (now KPMG Professional Services), and this was where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1990. By the time she left the firm in 1992, she had already attained the position of Audit Senior.
She then joined Flame Petroleum & Gas Company Limited, a start-up oil marketing company, as a Financial Controller in 1992 and within five years, she rose through the ranks to become an Executive Director in 1997 – a good position by any standards.
Had she decided to take that route to the end, there is little doubt that she would still have earned a reputation for herself in the corporate space. However, in 1998, Dame Winifred Akpani left to go explore the wild waters of entrepreneurship.
In 1998, Dame Akpani founded the Northwest Petroleum & Gas Company Limited with a startup capital of only N200,000.00. The company carried out diesel supplies in 200-litre drums to homes, guest houses, banks and corporate organisations and growing in leaps and bounds, two and half decades later, the company had built and commissioned two ultra-modern mega Petroleum Products Storage Terminals with a combined capacity of 96.8 million litres alongside an ultra-modern vessel berthing facility, international standards state-of-the-art fire fighting and safety equipment, all duly certified and licensed by the regulatory authorities, in the Calabar Free Trade Zone, Cross River State.
The company now handles international oil trading and services deals worth millions of dollars and has multiple investments in the midstream and upstream sectors of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry.
Dame Winifred Akpani is a Director of Millennium Oil and Gas Company Limited, the operator of Oza Marginal Field and Northwest Energy Nigeria Limited, a company in the exploration and production sector. She equally has substantial interests in the banking industry and is also a Director of Fleet Travels and Tours Nigeria Limited.
Dame Winifred Akpani, a ‘Fellow’ of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA) and an ‘Associate’ Member of the Institute of Directors, is also very involved in humanitarian work and charity donations on which recognition, Pope Benedict XVI awarded her ‘The Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice’ medal or ‘Cross of Honour’, the highest award of the Catholic Church established by Pope Leo XIII in1888 for distinguished service to the church and humanity in the year 2009.
Northwest Petroleum and Gas Company Ltd. owns and operates several mega gas stations across the country and has grown to be a solid brand of repute in the Nigerian Downstream sector.
Hajiyya Amina Maina
Vice Chairman 1
Hajiyya Amina Maina
Vice Chairman 1
Ms. Maina is a well-established executive, and a dependable leader who brings to every board, vast knowledge of precise expertise and experience. An innovative thinker and problem solver, who consistently applies empathy and emotional intelligence to business analysis, complications and initiate fresh ideas to develop new systems, enhance existing and future positioning of the organisation. She is equally a keenly focused professional with a unique blend of industry transferrable skills, combined with consistent delivery of global best practice to drive organizational short and long-term strategic imperatives.
Her corporate knowledge spans over 20 years in Oil and Gas Sector covering the entire industry value chain particularly in the downstream sector – with special skills in trading, shipping, storage and retailing. Her wealth of experience is brought to bear in her restructuring and growing the national dominance of MRS group of companies in 6 African countries and Switzerland.
Ms Maina started her career in 1998 as a Youth Service Corps member with a subsidiary of NNPC – Pipelines and Product Marketing Company (PPMC) With over two decades of corporate experience, she has worked in various companies such as, Marc Rich Investments Ltd, where she began her trading career, Aurora Energy Trading Ltd, Energy Solutions Integrated Services Ltd, Ovlas Trading S.A and at present, she is the Group Chief Operating Officer for MRS Holdings Limited. She has held various positions, overseeing marketing and sales, trading, business development and logistics. Amina is an Alumni of the prestigious Harvard Business School, INSEAD (the Business School of the world) Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria where she obtained a B.Sc. in Business Administration.
She has attended various industry trainings in Leadership, Strategy, Operations, Financial Management and Supply Chain at the London Business School, CITAC LLP London and the Oxford Princeton College. She is a fellow in the Energy Institute, the Institute of Management Consultants, a member of the Institute of Directors, a Board of Trustees and Founding member of the Women in Energy Network (WIEN) and a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) She is currently the Third Vice Chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. She also serves as a board Member on the board of various reputable organizations. Such as MRS Oil Nigeria Plc, MRS Benin, Corlay Cameroon, First Mutual Microfinance bank and Maitama Amusement Park, Abuja.
Mahmud Tukur
Vice Chairman 2
Mahmud Tukur
Vice Chairman 2
Mahmud B Tukur has over 28 years of experience in the Energy, Maritime, Technology and Infrastructure sectors. Prior to founding the Ashgrove Group of Companies, Mahmud was the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Eterna Plc, a downstream petroleum company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. He was twice recognized as a top 25 CEO of Publicly Quoted Companies in Nigeria by Business Day Newspaper as well as Downstream CEO of the year by Guardian Newspaper.
Mahmud began his career in the oil services sector, working in business development for Sirpi -Alusteel construction and InterOil Services limited in the offshore fabrication and marine support services markets. He , served as the MD/CEO of Daddo Maritime Services Limited, a foremost indigenous maritime services company. He was the founder and pioneer Managing Director of IGPES limited, a leading EPC contractor who have been involved in many ground breaking projects including pioneering the provision of leased gas compression solutions for the IOC’s operating in Nigeria.. He is the Chairman of ECM Terminals Limited, a member of the Eco-Marine Group, as well as Vice- Chairman of DAPPMAN( Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria.)
Mahmud Served as an INED on the Board of Bourbon Corporation( Euronext Paris) from 2012 to 2020 and currently serves on the Board of Abumet Limited (a subsidiary of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc) and Polysmart Packaging, a fast growing recycling services company.
He is a joint honours graduate of Accounting & Management from the Business School of the University of Wales College, Cardiff, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Shipping(Nigeria) , and a recipient of a National Honour : Officer of the Order of the Mono(OOM) of the Republic of Togo.
Bar. Chukwubuikem Ohia
Secretary
Bar. Chukwubuikem Ohia
Secretary
Barr. Chukwubuikem Uzoma Ohia, with over 46 years post Call to Bar experience, started with the then Unipetrol Nigeria Limited (later Unipetrol Nigeria Plc/ OANDO/ OVM and now NNPC Retail Limited) from July 1982 to December 1996; voluntarily resigning as General Manager, Unipetrol Sierra Leone Limited after acquiring the government owned Sierra Leone Petroleum Refinery Company Limited, Kissy, Freetown.
After a brief period of active corporate legal practice and executing consultancy work with Ascon Oil Company Limited (Ascon Oil), from April to August 1999, I joined that company as a permanent staff on 1st September 1999.
He was on the Ascon Oil Management Team that built up and actively participated in the exponential growth of the company until the relatively recent equity divestment of its ownership by the Enenmoh Family in June 2019 to Quest Oil and Engineering Services Limited while the new owners retained his services until he retired on 31st December 2021.
While he is now back in private legal practice and corporate consultancy, Barr. C.U. Ohia remained all through his petroleum industry sojourn, a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and a member of the International Bar Association.
Chris Igwe
Financial Secretary
Chris Igwe
Financial Secretary
‘Dr’ Christian Odinaka Igwe ‘OFR’, is the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of Mainland Oil & Gas Co. Ltd, as well as the Group Chairman of Chrisnak Group. As an entrepreneur, he has acquired a wealth of business management experience spanning over 28 years in the private sector as a result of which he received an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree in Business Administration and Human Resources from Wesley University, Ondo State, Nigeria.
‘Dr’ Chris Igwe, a ‘Business Administration’ graduate of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko & a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from the Lagos State University, grew up being familiar with the values of hard work, patience, persistence, and perseverance. With the short grooming and business mentorship he acquired as a trading apprentice, he built the Chrisnak conglomerate, starting with several small trading business units.
His flagship company, Mainland Oil & Gas Co Ltd, a leading player in Nigeria’s downstream oil and gas sector with significant inroads to the midstream and upstream sectors, recently completed a lubricant blending facility, with a daily processing capacity in excess of 50,000 litres, Owaza, Abia State, and forms part of the Chrisnak Group, with interests spanning other sectors such as shipping and freight-forwarding, shipping logistics, real estate, agro-allied industries, PVC manufacturing.
With a combined workforce of over 3000 staffers and as National Trustee of the Association of Nigerian Licensed Customs Agents (ANLCA) and a ‘Knight’ of the order of John Wesley ‘Dr’ Chris Igwe continuously seeks to add value to the society.
Moroti Adedoyin – Adeyinka
Treasurer
Moroti Adedoyin – Adeyinka
Treasurer
Moroti Adedoyin-Adeyinka is the Executive Director, overseeing finance strategy of the Sahara Group, a leading energy and infrastructure conglomerate with operations in over 42 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Her core responsibilities include oversight of all finance functions across the Group, as well as leading the financial strategy and investment appraisal of the various arms of the business.
A 1991 B.Sc. Economics of the University of Lagos and an alumnus of the prestigious Harvard University, Boston USA, where she obtained a diploma in General Management in 2008, Moroti is a ‘Fellow’ of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) with over 2 decades experience as a chartered accountant.
Moroti started out her career in the financial world with Coopers & Lybrand accounting firm, now PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): 1991-1995 and later, Interworld Management & Services: 1995-1997 as an Office Manager, overseeing the Finance Department and General Administration of the firm.
She worked as an accountant with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines: 1998-2001 and joined Sahara Group in 2002 as Finance Manager. She was elevated as Group Treasurer in 2006 and later appointed the CEO of the Group’s downstream trading arm in 2009. Moroti serves as a non-Executive Director on the board of Asharami Synergy, a foremost player in the downstream sector of the Oil Industry.
Stilian Mitakev
Assistant Secretary
Stilian Mitakev
Assistant Secretary
Mr. Stilian Nikolaev Mitakev, the Group Managing Director of Swiftoil Ltd, is a naturalized Nigerian of Bulgarian birth with a ‘BA’ Degree in Mathematics, ‘MS’ from the Higher Institute for Economics, Sofia, specializing in International Economic Relations, Foreign Currencies & Finances.
Mr. Mitakev’s work experienced spanned Balkan Bulgarian Airlines as the Regional Manager and later as Consultant for Africa, West Africa and Nigeria. He later served as Managing Director to Katagum Enterprises Ltd. & Rila Investment Ltd. both of which were key players in the construction material supplies sphere between 1996 – 2007.
His foray into the oil and gas industry began in 2008, with his appointment as the Chief Operating Officer Arcturus Merchant Trust Ltd. being responsible for the shipping and trading operations of the company which included but not limited to charters, bunkering, supplies, crew; spares, etc. as the firm had some key downstream operators, including SwiftOil Ltd. as key clients.
Mr. Mitakev became a consultant to Swiftoil Ltd. on product importation in 2010 and formally joined the company as the General Manager in 2012. His input and contributions to the growth of the company saw him being elevated as Managing Director in September 2013 and later the Group Managing Director in January 2016.
History of DAPPMAN
Originally named “The Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association” –DAPPMA
This Association can be historically described as a child of providence and was spawned by the emergence of indigenous Nigerian entrepreneurs who boldly stepped in, to assist the Federal Government of Nigeria (FGN) in developing refined petroleum products bulk storage and distribution infrastructure in the coastal areas of the country.
Up to the twilight of the administration of the late General Sanni Abacha, in early 1998, the downstream sector of the Nigeria Oil and Gas industry was firmly under the control of the Federal Government of Nigeria through the national oil company, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and its downstream subsidiary, the then Pipelines and Products Marketing Company Limited now re-named Petroleum Products Marketing Company Limited (PPMC). The NNPC/PPMC ensured nationwide distribution through (1) the then major players in the downstream sector, namely TOTAL, TEXACO, UNIPETROL, AP, MOBIL and CONOIL who between them and (2) with the thousands of Independent Petroleum Marketers’ Association of Nigeria (IPMAN) registered petrol retail outlets kept the nation adequately supplied with petroleum products. The period up to 1999 had witnessed major and devastating challenges faced by NNPC/PPMC to ensure adequate products supplies from its 21 strategic depots since the pipeline networks were constantly and regularly vandalised with disruptive adverse Consequences.
Encouraged and galvanised by the then General Abdulsalam Abubakar regime’s partial liberalisation of the downstream sector of the Nigerian oil and gas industry in 1998, whereby independent marketers briefly were licensed to import white products, indigenous entrepreneurs plunged in and some such as late Engr. George Ikemefuna Enenmoh the founder, MD/CEO of Ascon Oil Company Limited discovered that to successfully import, it was more commercially viable to own rather than lease bulk storage facilities. At the time he linked up peers like Chief Sylverius Ikenegbo Okoli, who had retired from the then National Oil and Chemical Company (NOLCHEM), now Conoil Plc and had established the West African Bitumen Company Limited (WABECO). WABECO at the time had its Bitumen Depot at the Ibru Private Jetty /Port Complex, Ibafon, Apapa Oshodi Expressway, near Tin CanIsland Port, Apapa, Lagos along with the MOBIL/ERES Bitumen Depot. The late Engr. George Enenmoh, was one of the very first indigenous entrepreneurs who commenced the construction of White Products bulk storage tank facility in 1999 (completing the first phase of the Ascon Oil Depot, Ibafon by June 2000) who also encouraged others like the 2 Bitumen Depots already established and the IBACHEM Depot (established for storage of Chemicals initially) to also convert to the storage of white petroleum products. Later entrepreneurs like Mr. Femi Otedola came on board to tap into liberalization of the downstream sector by the Federal Government in by establishing Zenon Petroleum Company and constructing its depot.
The period after 1999
Thus by the year 2000, these new Depot Companies were sourcing products from NNPC/PPMC by applying for and obtaining Coastal allocations of petroleum products which they paid for; transshipped; discharged into their bulk Storage tanks and sold/marketed to customers for retailing through petrol stations and also facilitating bulk supplies to industrial and commercial customers generally. This ensured regular and more constant supplies of petroleum products in a way and manner which ensured that the perennial petroleum products shortages/queues were becoming a thing of the past. Gradually they were capturing a sizeable chunk of the market for such products supplies. Enviable as these steps were, however, there is no gain saying the established players in the downstream sector felt threatened and surely would have moved against it.
This they did by influencing the President Olusegun Obasanjo Government to ban the Coastal/allocation and supply of Petroleum products by NNPC/PPMC to all such indigenous owned Depots alleging that these Depots were a security threat and were being used to carry out clandestine activities and to smuggle in arms and ammunition into the nation. This ban was effective December, 2000 and unfortunately remained in place for over 7 to 8 months.
Early Beginnings
It is to protect the bludgeoning local investors and their investments in the sector that informed the decision of late Engr. George Enenmoh to call on investors of like mind such as Femi Otedola, Chief S.I. C. Okoli; Chief Cletus Ibeto to form the association: Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria with the sole aim of having a common voice to respond to the Government and regulatory bodies; to protect and foster unity and cooperation amongst such entrepreneurs in the Nigerian Downstream Petroleum sector.
At inception, late Mr. George Enenmoh was the protem chairman and co-ordinator and in deference to Chief S.I. Okoli, who had retired as the MD/CEO of the then National Oil Company, one of the then major players in the sector, the former had discussed with the latter, the possibility of handing over the chairmanship of the association to enable it gain wider acceptance. This was the intention of the late Mr. George Enenmoh which he could not implement before his death in the ill-fated Bellview Airline air crash of Saturday, 22nd October, 2005 at Lisa, Ogun State which claimed his life and that of many other illustrious Nigerians.
Chief Sylverius Ikenegbo Okoli led the Association (from late 2005 to 2012) through some turbulent times which culminated in the recognition of the Association as a major force by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Following an election held on the 22nd of July, 2012, Chief Okoli was succeeded by an Executive Committee led by Prince ‘Dapo Abiodun. Giant strides were accomplished under the tenure of Prince Dapo Abiodun as Chairman, including but not limited to the recruitment of an Executive Secretary and also the final incorporation of the Association on the 28th day of November, 2017 as the Depot and Petroleum Products Marketers Association of Nigeria (DAPPMAN) after numerous attempts to achieve same. Also following the election of Prince Dapo Abiodun MFR as the Executive Governor of Ogun State, the Association held elections on 11th July, 2019 and a new Executive Committee, headed by Dame Mrs. Winifred Akpani took over leadership of the Association.
The growth of the Association had been sustained over the years by the valuable and major contributions of members of the various Executive Committees and whilst they compete with and amongst each other, DAPPMAN member companies speak with one voice at all times and in all situations. In the process generally portraying the Associate as a collection of highly respectable and patriotic Nigerian entrepreneurs who believe in and have shown in concrete terms their commitment to the economic development and growth of our country, Nigeria.
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Our Members
DAPPMAN Membership is voluntary, and any member can exit the Association at any time, if they so wish. The Association is presently made up of the following companies:
Fynefield Petroleum Ltd.
Quest
Rosa Mystica Energy FZE
