{"id":37454,"date":"2026-06-18T16:40:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37454"},"modified":"2026-06-18T16:40:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T14:40:37","slug":"namibias-energy-minister-confirms-removal-of-petroleum-commissioner-shino","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/namibias-energy-minister-confirms-removal-of-petroleum-commissioner-shino\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia&#8217;s Energy Minister confirms removal of petroleum commissioner Shino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia&#8217;s Energy Minister confirmed the removal of Maggy Shino as \u200bthe country&#8217;s Petroleum Commissioner, ending months \u200cof speculation but did not provide the reasons for her demotion, a statement \u200bfrom the Minister&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p>Shino, \u200bwho helped shape Namibia&#8217;s oil and \u2060gas regulatory framework as the \u200bsouthern African country works towards its first \u200boil production by 2030, was relieved of her duties effective June 2.<\/p>\n<p>She has been \u200breplaced in an acting capacity by \u200bAune Amutenya, who previously worked as a \u200cdeputy \u2060director of petroleum exploration and production in the Ministry.<br \/>\nShino remains a Director in the upstream petroleum unit, a newly \u200bcreated unit \u200bin \u2060the office of the President.<\/p>\n<p>President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah is pushing \u200bfor wide-ranging changes to energy \u200bregulations \u2060that would give statutory recognition to the upstream unit and also do \u2060away \u200bwith the position of \u200bpetroleum commissioner, among other amendments.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13693,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-37454","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Shino remains a Director in the upstream petroleum unit, a newly \u200bcreated unit \u200bin \u2060the office of the President.","published_date":"","news_description":"Shino remains a Director in the upstream petroleum unit, a newly \u200bcreated unit \u200bin \u2060the office of the President.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37455,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37454\/revisions\/37455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=37454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}