Razaq Obe (born February 17, 1976) is a Nigerian technocrat. He is the current Commissioner for Energy and Mines in Ondo State. Hailing from Ilara-Mokin, Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State. Education Razaq Obe attended the University of Benin from 1998 to 2003, where he studied Petroleum Engineering.At the University, he served as president of the Nigerian University Engineering Students Association (NUESA). He was also a member of student’s union parliament and vice chairman of the university Congress of the Masses. He holds a Master Degree in Oil and Gas Project Management from the University of Liverpool in 2012. Career Razaq Obe has over a decade of corporate experience in top companies including Globacom, NNPC and Exxon Mobil where he recently retired as Operations Procurement Contract Manager. He was also made a member of Board of the ExxonMobil Employees Savings and Pensions Funds. He likewise served as a member of the Ministerial Committee on Contract Staffing in Nigerian oil and gas industry. Earlier, Razaq Obe was in 2007 employed as a Management Executive by the Nigerian telecommunication giant, Globacom.Razaq Obe is co-convener of Africa’s Redemption Initiative (Afriniti). In the year 2020, he was made the Commissioner for Energy and Mines by the Ondo State Governor, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu SAN.
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