BREAKING: Muhammad #Barkindo, #OPEC Secretary-General Is Dead

BREAKING: Muhammad #Barkindo, #OPEC Secretary-General Is Dead—-The Genius Media Nigeria reports that The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, Muhammad Barkindo, is dead.

According to report, Barkindo died late Tuesday.

This was made known by The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari, in a tweeted posted to his verified Twitter handle, @MKKyari, in the early hours of Wednesday.

“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, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), had, on Tuesday, honoured Barkindo, describing him as a worthy ambassador of the country, at the State House, Abuja

Reacting to Barkindo’s death, a former lawmaker in the eighth Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, tweeted to 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.”

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