FORMER PETROLEUM MINISTER, RILIWANU LUKMAN DIES

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 in Kadunam reveal he died early Monday in Vienna, Austria. Source revealed that Mr. Lukman died at about 1 a.m on Monday in an undisclosed hospital in Austria.

Mr. Lukman was said to have, for a long time, suffered from a yet to be disclosed illness.

Details of his burial plans are yet to be announced.

However, source said Mr. Lukman remains would have to undergo a formal documentation by the hospital in line with the Austrian law before being released and brought back to Nigeria.