OPEC Secretary-General, Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo dies at 63

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.

This was made known in a tweet by Mele Kyari, the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company, NNPC, Limited

He 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. Burial arrangements will be announced shortly.