OPEC Secretary-General, Barkindo, is dead

Mohammed Barkindo

Muhammad Barkindo, the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries' secretary general, has passed away.

Barkindo passed away Tuesday night.

In the small hours of Wednesday, Mele Kyari, the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, tweeted to his verified Twitter account, @MKKyari, to share the news of Barkindo's passing.

Our revered Dr. Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo passed away. On July 5, 2022, at about 11 p.m., he passed away. His personal family, the NNPC, Nigeria, OPEC, and the global energy world have all suffered a significant loss. Plans for the funeral will be revealed soon, Kyari tweeted.

At the State House in Abuja on Tuesday, President Major General Muhammadu Buhari (ret.) honored Barkindo and praised him as a deserving ambassador for the nation.

A former member of the ninth Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, responded to Barkindo's passing by tweeting on his Twitter account, "Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo, former GMD NNPC and up till recently, @OPECSecretariat writer, was honored yesterday." Today at 11 p.m., he passed away. Aljanna firdausi, may Allah grant him. Amin. That is how fleeting and fleeting life is.

Call off your strike to allow us address your demands- Bauchi HoS urges striking staff

Call off your strike to allow us address your demands- Bauchi HoS urges striking staff Bauchi state government on Wednesday pleaded with the striking academic and non academic staff unions in five tertiary institutions in the state to as a matter of urgency call off their ongoing strike for government to resolve their demands immediately. State's Head of Civil Service, Yahuza Adamu Haruna at a press briefing held at Government House, Bauchi expressed concern for the inability of the striking staff to allow the state government address their issues rather than embarking on the strike. He stated that, calling off the strike will enable the state government to continue with the negotiations with the leadership of the Joint Acton Committee (JAC) of the unions for possible resolving their demands raised once and for all. "We are surprised by the strike embarked upon by the JAC members despite knowing the efforts of the State Government to resolve their demands, ...

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