{"id":131941,"date":"2019-07-02T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131941"},"modified":"2019-07-02T09:07:46","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T08:07:46","slug":"nigerias-barkindo-re-elected-opec-general-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=131941","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s Barkindo re-elected OPEC General Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Nigerias-Barkindo-re-elected-OPEC-General-Secretary.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on Monday re-elected Nigeria\u2019s Mohammed Barkindo as Secretary-General for a three-year tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The oil bloc also approved a nine-month extension for the global oil cut.<\/p>\n<p>Barkindo, born 20 April 1959 in Yola, was first appointed August 1 2016.<\/p>\n<p>He previously served as OPEC Acting Secretary General in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>He represented Nigeria on OPEC\u2019s Economic Commission Board during from 1993 till 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Barkindo was GMD of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) from 2009 to 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Vienna on Monday re-elected Nigeria\u2019s Mohammed Barkindo as Secretary-General for a three-year tenure. The oil bloc also approved a nine-month extension for the global oil cut. Barkindo, born 20 April 1959 in Yola, was first appointed August 1 2016. He previously served as OPEC Acting Secretary General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":131942,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1137,5092,8494],"class_list":["post-131941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-muhammadu-barkindo","tag-nnpc","tag-opec"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/131942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}