Hours After Meeting Buhari, OPEC Sec-General, Muhammed Barkindo Dies
The Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead.
Barkindo died at about 11p.m on Tuesday at the age of 63 years.
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.
The President, Muhammadu Buhari, had, on Tuesday, honored 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 honored yesterday. He died at 11 pm yesternight. May Allah grant him Aljanna firdausi. Amin. That is the ephemerality and transience of life.”