Maikanti baru biography of mahatma

Nigerian engineer (1959–2020)

Maikanti Kachalla Baru (7 July 1959 – 29 May 2020) was a Nigerian engineer, crude oil marketer and the 18th Group Managing Director of the Nigeria's state oil firm, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC).

He served in the position from July 2016 to July 2019 and had previously served as the Group General Manager (GGM) of National Petroleum Investment Management Services.^[1] Baru was a fellow of Nigerian Society of Engineers and Nigerian Institution of Mechanical Engineers.^[2]

Early life and education

Baru was born in July 1959 in Misau, Bauchi State.^[3] He attended Federal Government College, Jos for his secondary education where he graduated in 1978.^[4] He obtained his bachelor of engineering degree from Ahmadu Bello University in 1982 and a doctorate in Computer Aided Engineering from the University of Sussex.^[1][5]

Career and death

Baru worked with the Jos