BREAKING NEWS: Rilwanu Lukman is dead

Garba Ahmad, kaduna |21st Jul 2014 | 6,452

Former minister of petroleum and former Secretary General of OPEC, Alh Rilwanu Lukman is dead.

Family sources told our reporter in Kaduna that, he died in the early hours of Monday in Vienna, Austrla after a brief illness.

Lukman was born on the 26/8/1938.

Rilwanu Lukman is a Nigerian engineer who held several ministerial positions in the Nigerian Federal government before becoming Secretary General of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2000. On 18 December 2008, Lukman was appointed Minister of Petroleum Resources by Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua, holding office until March 2010.

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