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JonathanMinister of Petroleum Resources· April 2010 — May 2015

Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke

First female OPEC President (2014). Subject of UK National Crime Agency and EFCC proceedings.

The record

Diezani Alison-Madueke (b. 6 December 1960, Port Harcourt) was the first female Petroleum Minister, the first female President of the OPEC Conference (2014), and the longest-serving Petroleum Minister of the Fourth Republic.

Her tenure included Lamido Sanusi's February 2014 disclosure of $20bn in unremitted NNPC receipts, which prompted Sanusi's suspension as CBN Governor.

She was charged in the UK on five counts of bribery in October 2023. Multiple EFCC asset-forfeiture orders have been granted against her between 2017 and 2024.

Sources

  • UK National Crime Agency — Press release, 2 October 2023
  • Senate of Nigeria — Public Hearing, Unremitted NNPC Funds, March 2014
Methodology

Tier 1 · primary

Courts. Gazettes. National archives.

Tier 2 · corroborating

OCCRP. HRW. BudgIT. TheCable.

Tier 4 · tertiary, flagged

Wikipedia only where primary is pending. Always labelled.