{"id":4703,"date":"2021-06-23T10:30:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/?p=4703"},"modified":"2021-06-23T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T10:30:29","slug":"opec-to-mark-50th-anniversary-of-nigerias-membership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/2021\/06\/23\/opec-to-mark-50th-anniversary-of-nigerias-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"OPEC to mark 50th anniversary of Nigeria\u2019s membership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will on July 12 mark the 50th anniversary of Nigeria\u2019s membership of the organisation.<br>OPEC\u2019s Secretary-General, Dr Mohammad Barkindo, made the disclosure in a statement.<br>Nigeria was unanimously accepted as the 11th Member of OPEC on July 12, 1971.<br>According to Barkindo, that day has been of historic importance for Nigeria and OPEC.<br>He said: \u201cTo commemorate this landmark date, the OPEC Secretariat has pieced together a special OPEC Bulletin.<br>\u201cThe edition will look at the history of Nigeria\u2019s relationship with OPEC, including the many giants of Nigerian public service, who have been responsible for the successful five-decade relationship that has evolved with OPEC.<br>\u201cWe will interview high-level figures and examine and explore other topical issues surrounding Nigeria.\u2019\u2019<br>Barkindo said that the focal interview would be with President Muhammadu Buhari who he described as an OPEC veteran for over 40 years.<br>According to him, Buhari has been heavily involved in the organisation\u2019s affairs&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefreezonechannel.com\/opec-to-mark-50th-anniversary-of-nigerias-membership\/\">TO CONTINUE READING CLICK HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) will on July 12 mark the 50th anniversary of Nigeria\u2019s membership of the organisation.OPEC\u2019s Secretary-General, Dr Mohammad Barkindo, made the disclosure in a statement.Nigeria was unanimously accepted as the 11th Member of OPEC on July 12, 1971.According to Barkindo, that day has been of historic importance for Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4705,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4703\/revisions\/4705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carlcon.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}