Diezani Alison-Madueke

Malami says Mohammed Adoke his predecessor as Attorney-General and Diezani Allison-Madueke Lukman's successor both linked to separate corruption scandals then conspired to facilitate the scam against Nigeria...

Mohammed Adoke and Diezani Allison-Madueke were appointed Attorney-General and Minister of Petroleum Resources respectively by Goodluck Jonathan in 2010...

The government has started the process of getting former oil minister Diezani Allison-Madueke extradited from Britain to face trial in Nigeria and is robustly contesting – on grounds of corporate corruption – an award of $9bn to Irish-based P&ID for compensation on a failed gas project in Cross River State (AC Vol 58 No 16 Trading places and faces & Vol 60 No 17 Executive exerts its privilege)...

Jonathan's former oil minister Diezani Allison-Madueke had experience in industry and government but is now widely regarded as one of the country's most corrupt officials in modern times due to allegations she vigorously denies...

President and CEO of Masters Energy an indigenous oil company in which some industry experts suspect Allison Madueke – a retired admiral and husband of former petroleum minister Diezani Allison-Madueke who faces multiple charges of grand corruption – has a stake...

Jedy-Agba former head of crude oil marketing at Nigeria's state oil company worked closely with Diezani Allison-Madueke when she was minister (AC Vol 58 No 15 Diezani in their sights)...

With the publication of the UNEP report in 2011 then-President Goodluck Jonathan set HYPREP up in 2012 at the Ministry of Petroleum Resources under Diezani Allison-Madueke...

Nigeria argues that the agreement (and original award in 1998) was corrupt claiming that those who benefited from improper payments from 2011 included the then President Goodluck Jonathan Attorney-General Mohammed Adoke Petroleum Resources Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke and National Security Adviser Aliyu Mohammed Gusau (AC Vol 58 No 16 Trading places and faces)...

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)...

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...