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Former NNPC Group Managing Director Dies

<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4>Former NNPC Group Managing Director Dies<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p>OpenLife Nigeria has gathered that a former group managing director of the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation&comma; NNPC&comma; Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo is dead&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The serving<br &sol;>&NewLine;Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries&comma; OPEC&comma; died at about 11pm on Tuesday&period; He was aged 63&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His death was announced in the early hours of Wednesday by NNPC GMD&comma; Mele Kyari&comma; who described his departure as a great loss to his immediate family&comma; NNPC Nigeria&comma; OPEC and global energy community&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In a statement on his verified twitter handlle&comma; &commat;MKKyari&comma; at 4&period;32am Weddnesday&comma; the NNPC GMD wrote&colon;”We lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo&period; He died at about 11pm yesterday 5th July 2022&period; Certainly a great loss to his immediate family&comma; the NNPC&comma; our country Nigeria&comma; the OPEC and the global energy community&period; Burial arrangements will be announced shortly&comma;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Though the cause of his death was not disclosed in the tweet&comma; Barkindo was received at the State House Tuesday by President Muhammadu Buhari&comma; who lauded the outgoing OPEC secretary general six year tenure and described him as a worthy ambassador of Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mohammed Sanusi Barkindo was born on April 20 1959&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He has been the Secretary General of OPEC since August 1&comma; 2016&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He previously served as Acting Secretary General in 2006 and represented Nigeria on OPEC&&num;8217&semi;s Economic Commission Board between 1993–2008&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;He led the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC between 2009–2010&comma; and has headed Nigeria&&num;8217&semi;s technical delegation to UN climate negotiations since 1991&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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