The Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd (NNPCL), Mele Kyari, has lost his 25-year-old daughter, Fatima.
Although details of her de.ath are still sketchy as of the time of filing this report, Miss Kyari d!ed on Friday.
Dignitaries including Vice President Kashim Shettima and the Deputy Senate President have commiserated with the NNPCL boss over the unfortunate incident.
Shettima in a statement by his spokesman, Stanley Nkwocha, “prayed for the peaceful repose of the late Fatima,” and “asked God to grant the family the strength to bear the painful exit of their daughter, who was in her prime.”
He led other mourners at the funeral prayers, which were held at the Annur Mosque in Abuja.