The Secretary-General of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo is dead.
Barkindo died on Tuesday evening.
The news of his death was broken by the Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Mele Kyari.
“We lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo,” Kyari said in a tweet.
“He died at about 11pm on 5th July 2022.
Certainly a great loss to his immediate family, the NNPC, our country Nigeria, the OPEC, and the global energy community.
He said burial arrangements will be announced shortly.