Prosecutors say that a senior politician received a suitcase full of dollars for helping to facilitate the 2011 agreement but they have yet to outline in court how other top officials in the then PDP government including Diezani Allison-Madueke at Petroleum Resources and Attorney General Mohammed Adoke benefited from the $466m pay-off...
Aluko was close to Diezani Allison-Madueke Minister of Petroleum Resources in 2010-15 who is the subject of a lengthy fraud investigation in Britain (AC Vol 58 No 7 The great oil chase)...
READ FOR FREE
Other leading local operators are the privately-owned Eroton whose chairman Onajite Okoloko was one of the founding partners in Oando and runs the Notore fertiliser plant in Rivers State; Neconde which acquired fields from Shell; and Aiteo owned by Benedict Peters who was reputedly close to the former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke now under investigation in the UK (AC Vol 58 No 7 There will be blood...
A string of unusual lawsuits is frustrating law-enforcement agencies' attempts to seize assets belonging to oil traders accused of becoming extraordinarily wealthy because they were cronies of Diezani Allison-Madueke during her tenure from 2010 to 2015 as Nigeria's Oil Minister...
The pursuit by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) of former President Goodluck Jonathan's allies such as former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke will weigh on the party's electoral prospects (AC Vol 58 No 16 Trading places and faces)...
Government sources accuse opposition politicians close to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan his wife Patience and the disgraced former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke of using militant groups sympathetic to Biafran secession to derail investigations into Jonathan-era corruption (AC Vol 58 No 15 Diezani in their sights & Vol 58 No 7 The great oil chase)...
Government officials accuse opposition politicians linked to former President Goodluck Jonathan his wife and former oil minister Diezani Allison-Madueke of using local secessionist groups to derail anti-corruption investigations...
READ FOR FREE
Igho Sanomi the Nigerian oil trader who became a billionaire from contracts obtained while Diezani Allison-Madueke was oil minister under President Goodluck Jonathan bought a £28...
As Britain's long-running investigations into Nigerian former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke move towards a finale in October they have now snagged a clutch of ambitious Nigerian businessmen and dragged in several multinational companies including the Swiss-based Arcadia and Glencore trading conglomerates and Royal Dutch Shell (AC Vol 58 No 15 Diezani in their sights)...
Prosecutors claim the former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke and a handful accomplices extracted US$1...