Falcon CEO advocates management roles for girls in vitality

The Chief Government Officer of Falcon Company Restricted, Audrey Joe-Ezigbo, has known as on gamers within the Nigerian vitality trade to deepen dedication to appointing ladies to high management positions, particularly throughout the gasoline worth chain.

In a press release, Joe-Ezigbo made this name as a part of the worldwide celebration of ladies’s social, financial, and political achievements.

Joe-Ezigbo hailed the rising variety of feminine chief executives and managing administrators within the trade, describing it as a serious shift in a sector lengthy dominated by males.

She counseled the appointment of nationwide leaders such because the Particular Adviser to the President on Power, Olu Verheijen, and the Chief Government of the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Fee, Oritsemeyiwa Eyesan.

She additionally celebrated different feminine vitality leaders, together with Folake Soetan, Jennifer Adighije, Wola Joseph-Condotti, and upstream trade figures Catherine Uju Ifejika and Seinye Lulu-Briggs.

“Every of those appointments sends a robust message past boardrooms and steadiness sheets. It alerts to the world that Nigeria’s vitality sector is ready to compete on the power of its full expertise pool.

It alerts to traders that governance and management choice have gotten extra merit-driven. And most significantly, it alerts to the lady youngster that there isn’t a a part of the vitality worth chain that’s past her attain, not the management room, not the buying and selling desk, and never the manager suite,” Joe-Ezigbo acknowledged.

She emphasised that as Nigeria expands its gasoline infrastructure, management variety should go hand in hand with sector development.

“Gasoline is central to Nigeria’s transition story. The management shaping that story should replicate the range of the nation it serves,” she stated.

Joe-Ezigbo urged boards, regulators, and traders to institutionalise inclusive succession planning moderately than deal with feminine appointments as one-off milestones.

“At Falcon, we see inclusion not as a marketing campaign theme however as a governance precept. The progress we’re witnessing throughout the sector shouldn’t be episodic. It needs to be sustained, measurable, and irreversible,” the CEO stated.

She added that Worldwide Girls’s Day 2026 provides a chance to consolidate momentum and make sure the subsequent era of feminine engineers, economists, and vitality executives inherit a sector outlined by advantage, alternative, and equal entry to management.