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...
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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...
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...