The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Barkindo, has been confirmed dead. The OPEC Secretary-general died late Tuesday.
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, announced Barkindo’s death in a tweet on his verified Twitter handle, @MKKyari, in the early hours of Wednesday.
In the tweet, he wrote: “We lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo. He died at about 11pm yesterday 5th July 2022. Certainly a great loss to his immediate family, the NNPC, our country Nigeria, the OPEC and the global energy community. Burial arrangements will be announced shortly,” Kyari tweeted.
The President of Nigeria, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had, on Tuesday, also honoured the late Barkindo, describing him as a great ambassador of the country, at the State House, Abuja
In reaction to Barkindo’s death, Senator Shehu Sani, a former lawmaker in the eighth Assembly,tweeted on his Twitter page, “Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, former GMD NNPC and until recently, @OPECSecretariat scribe, was honoured yesterday. He died 11pm yesternight. May Allah grant him Aljanna firdausi. Amin. That is the ephemerality and transience of life.”
Mohammad Barkindo was a Nigerian politician and the secretary general of oil group OPEC. He has died at the age of 63.
