Diezani Alison-Madueke

The announcement this week that Diezani Allison-Madueke the seemingly immoveable Petroleum Minister and close presidential ally is to seek election as Secretary General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries was seen by oil company executives as a sign that Jonathan is planning to throw in the towel...

Those revelations and the failure of Oil Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke a close ally of Jonathan's to give a credible response to accusations of gross mismanagement and illegality sent investors into a spin...

The Central Bank figures suggested that as much as a third of that had not been transferred to it as legally required from the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) which comes under the control of Diezani Allison-Madueke the Oil Minister and close ally of Jonathan's...

Jonathan is losing the financial numbers game as well: the quarrel over how much revenue the state-owned Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation under the control of Presidential ally Diezani Allison-Madueke owes the Central Bank of Nigeria...

A retired general chuckled at a story circulating in Abuja that a colleague who had been one of Jonathan's early supporters when he was doing battle as Vice-President with the Yar'Adua family recently told the President: ‘There are five presidents in this country: your wife (Patience Jonathan) the Petroleum Minister (Diezani Allison-Madueke) the Aviation Minister (Princess Stella Oduah-Ogiemwonyi) the Finance Minister (Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) and you...

Now President Goodluck Jonathan (from Bayelsa State in the Delta) and Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke (from neighbouring Rivers State) are struggling to limit the damage of catastrophic revenue losses in the industry which generates 90% of foreign exchange earnings...

When Okonjo-Iweala points out that Nigeria is losing as much as 400 000 bpd of oil production there is no reaction from Petroleum Minister Diezani Allison-Madueke an ally so close to President Jonathan that she is deemed unsackable...

Asked for his opinion as Governor of Nigeria's most important oil-producing state of the job done by the Petroleum Minister Jonathan's close ally Diezani Alison-Madueke he was equally non-committal but conceded that the failure to pass the Petroleum Industry Bill could be costing Nigeria millions of dollars in lost foreign investment...

Yet sceptics say that even the redoubtable Okonjo-Iweala has made little progress in securing greater accountability over the oil revenue managed by the Department of Petroleum Resources under the aegis of the Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke a key ally of Jonathan's...

Atlantic was apparently set up for the purpose and controlled by veteran contractor and intermediary Bashorun Jide Omokore an associate of Oil Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke...