The Private World of Abdulkabir Aliu Abdulkabir Aliu founded Matrix Energy Group in the early 2000s and runs it as Group Chief Executive, yet he keeps a lower public profile than the business suggests.
No public Abdulkabir Aliu founded Matrix Energy Group in the early 2000s and runs it as Group Chief Executive, yet he keeps a lower public profile than the business suggests.
No public explanation exists, so any reason offered is guesswork.
Matrix trades petroleum and also moves it: its interests cover shipping, logistics, liquefied petroleum gas, mining and fertiliser blending.
Aliu trained as a metallurgical and materials engineer before working in banking and for international energy companies, which sets him apart from peers who came up purely as traders His engineering training shows in the assets. Matrix built the first LPG terminal in Delta State, a 6,000-tonne terminal in Tema, Ghana, and bought its own gas vessels, so it does not depend on third-party shippers. It moved into cooking gas before it became a national priority. He also sits on President Bola Tinubu’s Presidential Economic Coordination Council, which gives him input on the national Gas Master Plan, access that many independent marketers lack.
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