Mr. Wale Ajibade
Executive Director
Sahara Group
Wale Ajibade is an Executive Director of the Sahara Group with over 20 years of experience in the energy industry.
He commenced his working career in 1992 as a Commercial and Marketing Manager at the then United Commercial Bank Ltd in Lagos Nigeria. He left the bank to become a Co-partner at PABEC ENERGY SUPPORT Ltd; an Oil and Gas company in Lagos Nigeria.
In the year 2000, Wale Ajibade joined Sahara Energy Resource Ltd as an operations Manager to head their Abuja operations at the time. During his career at the Sahara Group, Wale has held different positions from Operations, to Heading Business Development for the Company’s West Africa operations where he was able to drive the company’s activities and hence promote the brand in countries such as Ghana, Cote D’Ivoire, Senegal, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Gambia, Liberia amongst others. He then became an Executive Director and co-partner in the organization, where he is currently overseeing Sahara Group’s Oil & Gas International Trade Portfolio which includes Business development and coordination of the crude oil, petroleum products, LPG and LNG trading between the different Sahara locations and other Trading counterparts globally.
Wale Ajibade is also a non-executive director and sits on the Board of West Africa Gas Limited (WAGL); a joint venture company between the NNPC LTD and the Sahara Group, as well as being a Non-Executive Director of First Independent Power Company Limited (FIPL); a power generation company in Southern Nigeria.
Wale Ajibade is on the Board of Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (S.I.R) in Ivory Coast and the Societe Africaine de Raffinage (S.A.R) Senegal representing Sahara Group’s interests in both refineries. He is also an Executive Member of the African Refiners and Distribution Association (ARDA). Wale Ajibade is an alumnus of the University of Lagos where he obtained a bachelor’s degree in Economics in 1991.
He has attended several courses on Oil Trading, LNG trading and Leadership and Management courses in the UK and in the U.S.A. He is also a member of the Ekiti State Government Covid-19 Response Resource Mobilization Committee (RRMC). Wale is an Avid football and sports fan.
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