{"id":503832,"date":"2022-07-07T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T04:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=503832"},"modified":"2022-07-07T11:15:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T05:45:04","slug":"opec-secretary-general-mohammad-barkindo-dies-nigerian-oil-official-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opec-secretary-general-mohammad-barkindo-dies-nigerian-oil-official-says\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEC Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo dies, Nigerian oil official says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OPEC\u2019s Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo has died, Mele Kyari, the chief executive of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Barkindo, who was 63 years old, was due to step down at the end of this month after six years as OPEC\u2019s secretary-general.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo,\u201d Kyari said on Twitter, adding that he died late on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The death was a \u201cgreat loss to his immediate family, the NNPC, our country Nigeria, the OPEC and the global energy community,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n<p>Kyari said Barkindo died hours after meeting Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and giving the main speech at an energy summit in Abuja.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OPEC\u2019s Secretary-General Mohammad Barkindo has died, Mele Kyari, the chief executive of Nigerian National Petroleum Corp said on Wednesday. Barkindo, who was 63 years old, was due to step down at the end of this month after six years as OPEC\u2019s secretary-general. \u201cWe lost our esteemed Dr Muhammad Sanusi Barkindo,\u201d Kyari said on Twitter, adding that he died late on Tuesday. The death was a \u201cgreat loss to his immediate family, the NNPC, our country Nigeria, the OPEC and the global energy community,\u201d he added. Kyari said Barkindo died hours after meeting Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and giving the main [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-503832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}