The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) increased its workforce to 6,247 employees by the end of 2025, representing a 12.24 per cent rise compared with 5,566 staff recorded at the end of 2024, according to the company’s latest workforce data.
The figures were contained in NNPCL’s fourth quarter 2025 workforce statistics, which provide an overview of staff strength across different cadres within the organisation.
The report also indicated that the 6,247 employees recorded in the fourth quarter of 2025 represented a 0.41 per cent decline from the 6,273 workers recorded in the third quarter of the same year, suggesting a slight reduction towards the end of the year.
Further analysis of the data showed that the company’s workforce rose significantly earlier in the year, increasing by 14.3 per cent from 5,495 staff at the end of the first quarter of 2025 to 6,280 employees in the second quarter.
However, the upward trend slowed in the latter part of the year, with the workforce declining marginally to 6,273 staff in the third quarter before dropping further to 6,247 employees in the fourth quarter.
A gender breakdown of the workforce revealed that 5,044 employees, representing 80.7 per cent, were male, while 1,203 employees, or 19.3 per cent, were female.
In terms of cadre distribution, the report showed that the Junior Staff 2 (JS2) category had one employee, while Junior Staff 1 (JS1) had 175 employees in the fourth quarter, slightly lower than the 187 workers recorded in the same category in the third quarter.
Within the senior staff category, Senior Staff Seven (SS7) remained unchanged at 31 employees, while Senior Staff Six (SS6) declined slightly to 1,010 staff from 1,012 recorded in the previous quarter.
Other senior staff categories recorded 1,076 employees in SS5, 164 in SS4, 389 in SS3, 471 in SS2, and 1,829 in SS1, compared with 1,076, 164, 391, 478 and 1,835 employees respectively in the third quarter.
In the management cadre, Management Six (M6) recorded 695 employees, slightly lower than the 699 staff in the previous quarter.
Similarly, M5, M4, M3, M2 and M1 cadres recorded 237, 117, 47, seven and one employees respectively, compared with 243, 116, 44, seven and one workers in the preceding quarter.
An analysis of the workforce structure showed that JS2 and JS1 accounted for 0.02 per cent and 2.75 per cent of the total workforce respectively.
Meanwhile, the SS7, SS6, SS5, SS4, SS3, SS2 and SS1 categories accounted for 0.50 per cent, 16.17 per cent, 17.22 per cent, 2.63 per cent, 6.23 per cent, 7.54 per cent and 29.28 per cent of total staff strength.
The management cadre also accounted for a smaller portion of the workforce, with M6 representing 11.13 per cent, M5 3.79 per cent, M4 1.87 per cent, M3 0.75 per cent, M2 0.11 per cent and M1 0.02 per cent.
Overall, the company reported 173 employees in the junior staff category, 4,970 in the senior staff category, and 1,104 employees in the management cadre.
Further breakdown showed that middle management accounted for 932 employees, representing 14.92 per cent of the total workforce, while top management comprised 172 employees, representing 2.75 per cent of the company’s staff strength.
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