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Breaking: OPEC Secretary-General, Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo is dead

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The Secretary-General of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, is dead.

Barkindo died at about 11p.m on Tuesday at the age of 63 years.

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His demised was announced by Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, Limited.

In a tweet on Wednesday morning, Kyari
said Barkindo’s demise was a great loss to Nigeria, OPEC, his family, and the international community.

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Kyari tweeted: “We lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo. He died at about 11 pm yesterday 5th July 2022. Certainly a great loss to his immediate family, the NNPC, our country Nigeria, the OPEC and the global energy community,” Kyari tweeted.

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“Burial arrangements will be announced shortly,” he added.

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Barkindo had visited President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.

The deceased was the third ex-NNPC GMD to have passed on in two years.

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