Energy Transition and Future Trends: Shaping the Path Forward for Nigeria..

Habiba Abubakar is a revered business leader, recognized and
celebrated for her illustrious career spanning over 15 years.

She has gained widespread recognition for her outstanding business acumen and a well-established history of delivering tangible results, covering a broad range of activities from
optimization to the expansion of business operations. Currently, she holds pivotal leadership positions as the Chief Transformation Officer at Prudent Group and serves as the General Manager of Channels at Ardova PLC.

In these influential roles, Habiba consistently showcases a remarkable talent for fostering revenue growth across a wide range of product lines and distribution channels, she has directly managed various downstream offerings, encompassing LPG, Lubricants, Commercial fuels, Non-fuel
Revenue, Business to customer (B2C) fuels Retailing.

Habiba excels in optimizing retail channels and spearheading strategic initiatives with a strong customer-centric focus. Her deep understanding of core fuels retailing, and route-to-market strategies consistently yields remarkable growth.

Habiba's previous leadership positions include Chief Operating Officer at Enyo Retail and Supply, a wass as various sales and marketing Letd (formerly Oando). She holds an MBA in Business Administration from Easton Business School and is a Certified Management Consultant (CMC) and a fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants Consultants.

Her international qualifications further highlight her impressive career in the industry.

Mrs. Godrey Ogbechie is a Co-Founder of Rainoil Limited, one of the foremost downstream oil and gas companies in Nigeria.

A consummate professional with about 35 years of combined experience across several industries which include Banking, Oil and Gas, Real Estate, Non-Profit, Farming, and Hospitality.

She holds various positions in companies operating in these industries which include:

1. Group Executive Director at Rainoil Limited
2. Managing Director/ Chief Executive Officer of Norsworthy Investments Limited.
3. Non-Executive Director at Eterna Plc.
4. Board Advisory and Board member of several other businesses and non-profits.

Godrey is a 1988 graduate of Agricultural Economics and Extension from the University of Calabar, Nigeria. She also holds a Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

Since joining Rainoil Limited full-time in 2009, Godrey has driven the establishment of systems and controls across the Group operations. She has been instrumental in growing the business to include an asset base comprising:

§ Three ultra-modern petroleum product storage depots (50 million litre capacity multi-product depots in; Oghara-Delta State, Calabar-Cross River State, and Ijegun Egba-Lagos State)

§ An 8,000 metric tonne LPG storage facility in Ijegun, Lagos State

§ Over 180 retail outlets spread across the country.

§ A fleet of 300 petroleum product tank trucks and 40 LPG trucks for efficient delivery of products to our network of stations and customers across the country.

Godrey is actively involved in several social welfare and humanitarian initiatives.

She is a Life Member of Women in Management, Business and Public Service (WIMBIZ), and the Lagos Business School Alumni Association .

She is also a board member and the VP of Downstream and Midstream in Women in Energy Network (WIEN).

She has attended several management courses locally and abroad.

She is married to Mr. Gabriel Ogbechie, and they are blessed with three young adults.

Joke Olatunji, our Moderator is a Strategy Expert and Business Transformation Professional with over 17 years of experience, several of them spent in management positions, have grown her competence in business strategy, project planning and execution, process development and reengineering as well as corporate leadership