Former NNPC GMD, Maikanti Baru, is dead

Immediate-past Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC GMD), Maikanti Baru, is dead.

This was disclosed by Mele Kyari, the current GMD of the state-run oil company.

He said, “My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr Maikanti Kachalla Baru, immediate past GMD of NNPC died late last night.  Maikanti Baru

“He was of exemplary character and disposition. May Allah forgive him and have mercy upon him.”

Baru was born in July 1959 in Misau, Bauchi State.

He attended Federal Government College, Jos, for his secondary education where he graduated in 1978.

In 1982, he obtained his bachelor of engineering degree from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria.

Baru has a doctorate in Computer Aided Engineering from the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom.

He was appointed NNPC GMD by President Muhammadu Buhari in July 2016, a position he held until 2019 before he was replaced with Kyari.

The cause of the death was not made public. There was no news that he was sick until the sudden news of his death.