The Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Muhammad Barkindo, is dead. He died late Tuesday.
The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Mele Kyari, announced Barkindo’s death in a tweet posted to his verified Twitter handle, @MKKyari, in the early hours of Wednesday.
“We lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo. He died at approximately 11 pm yesterday, July 5, 2022. Certainly a great loss to his immediate family, the NNPC, Nigeria, OPEC, and the global energy community. Burial arrangements will be announced shortly,” Kyari tweeted.
President Muhammadu Buhari honoured Barkindo on Tuesday, describing him as a worthy ambassador of the country at the State House in 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 at 11 pm yesterday. May Allah grant him Aljanna Firdausi. Amin. That is the ephemerality and transience of life.”
