Few months after leaving office as Group Managing Director of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Dr Maikanti Baru is dead.
He died on Friday at the age of 60.
His successor and current GMD, Mele Kyari confirmed the news in a Saturday morning tweet.
“My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, immediate past GMD of NNPC died late last night. He was of exemplary character and disposition. May Allah forgive him and have mercy upon him,” Kyari tweeted.
See tweet:
My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, immediate past GMD of NNPC died late last night. He was of exemplary character and disposition. May Allah forgive him and have mercy upon him.
— Mele Kyari (@MKKyari) May 30, 2020
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