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| Lukman |
The late Lukmam was born on August 26 1938 in Zaria, Kaduna State and left behind a wife and three children.
He
was appointed Minister of Mines, Power and Steel between 1984-85 and
later Minister of Petroleum Resources from 1986-1989. As Petroleum
Minister, he served as President of the Organisation for the Petroleum
Exporting Countries (OPEC) Conference for several consecutive terms from
1985-1989.
From
the petroleum ministry, he moved to foreign affairs ministry where he
served as Nigeria’s Minister of Foreign Affairs (1989-90) – all during
the military regime of General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida.
He
also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the defunct
National Electric Power Authority (NEPA) from 1993-94. Furthermore, Dr.
Lukman was elected as Secretary General of OPEC from 1995–2000.
It
was from his position as Secretary-General at the OPEC Secretariat in
Vienna, Austria that, in 2000 he was formally invited by former
President Olusegun Obasanjo and appointed as Presidential Adviser on
Petroleum and Energy Matters to the Federal Government of Nigeria and
Chairman of the NNPC, until in November 2003, when he voluntarily
retired from public service.
He
was later brought out from retirement in active public service by the
late Umaru Musa Yar’adua administration to serve again as Minister of
Petroleum Resources from 2008-2010.
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