A former Minister of Petroleum Resources and erstwhile Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, Rilwanu Lukman, is dead.
Born on August 26, 1938, he died about a month to his 76th birthday.
Family sources told a PREMIUM TIMES reporter in Kaduna that he died early Monday in Vienna, Austria.
Also, a source at the OPEC headquarters in Vienna, Austria, confirmed to PREMIUM TIMES on telephone that Mr. Lukman died at about 1 a.m on Monday in an undisclosed hospital in Austria.
“Yes, it’s true that Dr. Lukman passed on last night in a hospital in Vienna,” the source said.
