Nigeria’s Vice President Kashim Shettima commissioned the new corporate headquarters of Northwest Petroleum & Gas Company in Victoria Island, Lagos, on October 2, according to a report from the Office of the Vice President carried by the Federal Ministry of Information and National Orientation. The company’s chief executive and founder, Winifred Akpani, said the facility was intended to support collaboration, operational efficiency and innovation. The announcement did not state the building’s cost, size, staffing level or expected effect on the company’s output.

Northwest Petroleum is an indigenous petroleum-products marketer whose activities include exporting, importing, trading, storing and supplying crude oil and refined products, the ministry report said. The company was founded in 1998. It previously commissioned a lubricant-blending plant at Ijegun-Egba and a retail station in Maryland, Lagos, in 2023; those earlier facilities are separate from the headquarters opening. The ministry presented the new office as a corporate investment, without announcing a new production facility, contract or quantified job creation.