Although no business people or government officials were indicted the statement of claim accuses Kolawole Aluko and his business partner Olajide Omokore of bribing the then Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke to win implausibly profitable production and supply contracts (AC Vol 58 No 8 Ambition and ethics)...
a deal pushed through by the then Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke for a price reckoned at about $300 mn...
Following the change of government in Nigeria on 29 May 2015 the focus of the national investigating authorities has been on former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke and her business networks the lawyers accountants and locally-incorporated trading and production companies...
That weekend former oil minister Diezani Allison-Madueke was reported to have been arrested along with five others and was due to appear for questioning...
His predecessor Goodluck Jonathan's allies including former Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke; former National Security Advisor Colonel Sambo Dasuki and even ex-presidential wife Patience Jonathan are targets but are fighting back hard on the legal front...
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Cases against former National Security Advisor Colonel Sambo Dasuki and ex-Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke under police restriction in London are proceeding glacially...
The Oil Minister in the Goodluck Jonathan government Diezani Allison-Madueke is accused of presiding over $24 bn...
Some ask more searching questions about where the cash is coming from: several emigrés from Nigeria close friends of its former President Goodluck Jonathan and Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke have pitched camp in Ghana...
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Indeed investigators looking at the business empire of former Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke say she is linked to an extensive business network in the UAE...
The government's investigation into Tompolo's affairs follows its launch of investigations into former top officials in Jonathan's government: Colonel Sambo Dasuki the former National Security Advisor; Diezani Allison-Madueke Petroleum Minister; Kingsley Kuku Presidential Amnesty Programme chief...
Without that it is improbable that Jonathan's Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke would have been arrested in London in September over alleged bribery and corruption...