Day: May 30, 2020

How Baru, NNPC’s 18th GMD, died 3 years after losing son, sister, mother

Efe Wellington

  Buhari, Sylva, Kyari mourn   The immediate-past Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Kachalla Baru, died three years after losing a son, mother and sister. He was 60. His successor, Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari, who announced this in a Tweet, stated that Baru died at an Abuja hospital on the night of Friday, May 29. He has been sick before then but an accompanying statement from NNPC stated that he died after a brief illness. His death has attracted condolences from President Muhammadu Buhari and the…

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128 print newspapers shut down, fire thousands of journalists in 24 hours

Tim Bauer

  Of these numbers, News Corp announces end of 112 Australian print newspapers in one day   Thousands of journalists and media workers lost their jobs as about 128 print newspapers closed shops globally within 24 hours. Of these numbers News Corp Australia alone confirmed that more than 100 local and regional newspapers will disappear entirely or become digital only, and there will be a significant number of job losses. The executive chairman of News Corp Australasia, Michael Miller, who made the anouncement on May 28, thanked the departing employees for their…

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BREAKING: NNPC ex-GMD, Maikanti Baru, dies at 60

Efe Wellington

  Kyari, others mourn   The immediate-past Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Kachalla Baru, is dead. He was 60. His successor, Mallam Mele Kolo Kyari, who announces this in a Tweet, stated that Baru died on Friday. He extolled the virtues of the deceased. “My brother, my friend and my mentor, Dr. Maikanti Kachalla Baru, immesiate past GMD of NNPC died late last night. “He was an exemplary character and disposition. May allah forgive him and have mercy upon him,” Kyari said.   Baru who, Kyari,…

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