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Diezani Alison Maduekwe, the embattled former Nigeria’s Petroleum Minister who served during the regime of President Goodluck Jonathan, and thereafter ran to the UK for fear of EFCC, has now begged Nigerian government for leniency. Diezani, who is reportedly suffering the second stage of cancer, is begging president Bola Tinubu to allow her come back […]
Continue ReadingBritish police said on Tuesday they had charged former Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, with bribery offences, saying they suspected she had accepted bribes in return for awarding multi-million-pounds oil and gas contracts, according to Reuters. Alison-Madueke, 63, was a key figure in the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan, serving as […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Allison Madueke, has slammed a N100 billion libel and defamation suit against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) at a federal high court in Abuja. She also informed the court that she had been away from the country since […]
Continue ReadingFinal resolution of two civil cases seeking the forfeiture of the luxury assets that were laundered in and through the country in a case involving Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, and her associates, has been announced by the US Justice Department. The US government in 2017, filed a suit to recover $144 million […]
Continue ReadingAssistant Inspector General of Police (AIG) Garba Baba Umar, the Head of Interpol’s National Central Bureau (NCB), Abuja, Nigeria, has disclosed that the United Kingdom government rejected its request to extradite former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. Speaking on the sidelines of an investigative hearing by a House of Representative Adhoc committee investigating […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Chairman, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has revealed that the commission has recovered $153 million from former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who has been living in Britain since leaving office. Bawa, in the April edition of the EFCC magazine, EFCC Alert, also said the anti-graft agency recovered no fewer than 80 choice property […]
Continue ReadingThe former minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Madueke had not openly spoken, or granted any interview in the last five years that she’s been standing trial in absentia for corruption and embezzlement. But when she did about four weeks ago, she pontificated on morality and social values at a virtual event organised by the Ijaw […]
Continue ReadingFormer Bank Director, Dauda Lawal, has asked the Court of Appeal in Lagos to order the Nigerian Government to return to him the sum of N9.08 billion he forfeited to it on February 16, 2017. Lawal said the Federal High Court, Lagos, which ordered the forfeiture of the money had no jurisdiction to do so. […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has denied claims made by the Buhari-led administration and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) that she embezzled Nigeria’s money while she was in office. The former Minister had a no-holds barred interview with media personality, Dele Momodu, where she refuted claims that she embezzled Nigeria’s money […]
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