Yar'Adua who had been suffering from a long illness died shortly after the deal was signed by Rilwanu Lukman his oil minister (who died in 2014)...
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Malami says the architects of what he now calls a scam were Rilwanu Lukman and Michael Quinn respectively Minister of Petroleum Resources and head of P&ID at the time of the original 2010 contract...
Rilwanu Lukman as Minister for Petroleum Resources in 2008-10 had championed reforms for the local processing of associated gas into electricity in Nigeria...
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala drafted in from the World Bank the late Rilwanu Lukman at oil and former Goldman Sachs executive Olesegun Aganga enjoy better reputations abroad than at home...
But 10 years after Rilwanu Lukman then Minister for Petroleum Resources delivered his first draft of the Petroleum Industry Bill the latest blueprint for reform has stalled in the legislature...
In 2008 when the then Petroleum Minister Rilwanu Lukman presented the first version of the PIB to the National Assembly he said the reforms would end the corruption inertia and incompetence of the oil and gas industry and bring in a commercially driven structure that would boost investment and production...
Also at the ceremony was a flotilla of directors from the biggest indigenous oil company Afren whose founder and former Chairman Rilwanu Lukman was Oil Minister under President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua...
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IMIC signed a partnership with AIOG in April that will enrich its backers and board which includes Nigeria’s former Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman...
Many expected him to be the new Oil Minister as he was Deputy Oil Minister under Rilwanu Lukman...
However Energy Minister Rilwanu Lukman has staked his position on seeing the PIB into law and seems to have convinced Jonathan that the moment is right: the political payback would be higher government revenue from oil sales which could be made available to the treasuries of those state governments that had helped push the bill through...
Mutallab is also an old business associate of Oil Minister Rilwanu Lukman...
