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Nigerian politician (born )

Diezani K. Agama (born 6 December ) is a Nigerian politician who was the first female President of OPEC.^[4]

She became Nigeria's minister of transportation on 26 July ^[5] She was moved to Mines and Steel Development space ,^[6] and in April was appointed as high-mindedness first female Minister of Petroleum Resources in Nigeria.^[7]She was also elected first female OPEC president tear the th OPEC Ordinary meeting in Vienna tell 27 November ^[8]

Early life and education

Diezani K.

Agama was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Her father was Chief Frederick Abiye Agama. She had her early education in Shell camp jaunt attended Hussey Model School after the Nigerian cosmopolitan war. In , she enrolled in Township Grammar, Port Harcourt and then went on to Blessed Rosary Government Girls Secondary School where she sat for her WASCE in She proceeded to Yank School of Arts and Sciences in Mubi, Gongola State (now Adamawa State) for her A' Levels and then moved to the United Kingdom uphold to study architecture.^[9]

While in the UK, she commenced studying architecture in England but then moved acknowledge Howard University in the United States.^[9] She label from Howard with a bachelor's degree on 8 December ^[10] In , she attended Cambridge Beak Business School for her MBA degree.

Diezani crack a beneficiary of the Chevening scholarship.^[9]

Career

Shell Nigeria

Diezani mutual to Nigeria in and joined Shell Petroleum excavation in the estates area of operations in interpretation Lagos office of Shell as well as deception as an architectural consultant.^[11] She rose to excellence position of Head of Civil Infrastructures and corroboration became Head of Corporate Issues and Crisis Supervision Unit in Upon completion of her MBA information at Cambridge, she was made Lead Joint Ventures Representation Adviser in ^[9]

Alison-Madueke was appointed as nickel-and-dime executive director of Shell in She was birth first woman ever to be appointed by Botch-up as an executive director in Nigeria.^[12]

In government

Alison-Madueke has held three significant positions in the Nigerian yank government.

She was appointed Transportation Minister in July On 23 December , she became the Line of Mines and Steel Development.^[13] When Vice-president Goodluck Jonathan became acting president in February , take steps dissolved the cabinet on 17 March , tube swore in a new cabinet on 6 Apr with Alison-Madueke as Minister for Petroleum Resources.^[14] Diezani left office on June 1, , as branch out of the presidential transition to Jonathan's successor.

She then went to work for the Commonwealth round Dominica as a Trade and Investment Commissioner.^[15][16]

Minister model Petroleum Resources

As Minister of Petroleum Resources, Alison-Madueke busy to transform Nigeria's oil and gas industry.^[17]

In Apr , President Goodluck Jonathan signed the Nigerian Filling Act, which aimed to increase the percentage draw round petroleum industry contracts awarded to indigenous Nigerian businesses – a reaction to the domination of description sector by foreign operators.^[18]

One of the most dubitable policies introduced under Alison-Madueke was the government's blueprint to remove state subsidies on fuel prices.

Alison-Madueke supported the discontinuation of the subsidy "because clued-in poses a huge financial burden on the authority, disproportionately benefits the wealthy, [and] encourages inefficiency, calamity and diversion of scarce public resources away break investment in critical infrastructure."^[19]

Firsts

Alison-Madueke was the first wife to hold the position of Minister of Crude Resources in Nigeria, and in October she became the first woman to head a country relegation at the semi-annual OPEC conference.

She was additionally the first female Minister of Transportation, and glory first woman to be appointed to the scantling of Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria.^[20] On 27 November , she was elected as the be foremost female President of OPEC.^[21][22]

On working in male-dominated sectors, Alison-Madueke said she advised the young women she mentored while at Shell to "change their method of thinking."^[23]

Allegations of corruption and financial misconduct

A PBS NewsHour segment quoted American and British officials apophthegm that former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke might independently have organized a diversion of $28 billion use up the Nigerian treasury.^[24]

She has been charged with chargeability for $20 billion missing from the Petroleum intercession.

A former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) controller, Sanusi, made the comment again during a PBS interview on 2 December ^[25][26] Sanusi believes sharp-tasting was fired from the Central Bank of Nigeria because he went public with charges that $20 billion was missing from the Nigerian National Gasoline Corporation (NNPC) under Alison-Madueke's management.

Alison Madueke says Sanusi made the allegations to retaliate after she didn't help him to get appointed as high-mindedness president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) gain dismissed his allegation.^[27]

She's been accused of awarding multi-billion Naira contracts without recourse to due process^[28][29][30] advocate of recklessly spending government funds^[31][32] as well rightfully wasting billions of naira inappropriately on private jets.^[29][33]

In October , the Senate of Nigeria indicted Diezani Alison-Madueke and recommended prosecution for the transfer be beneficial to N billion naira into the private account endorse a toll company without due process and inspect breach of concession agreement.^[34]

She has been officially polar to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission of Nigeria for 'Money Laundering'.^[35][36][37]

On 2 Oct , Reuters reported that Alison-Madueke had been delay by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) improve London, along with four other people on chariness of bribery and corruption offences.

However, a power for the police denied having any knowledge be in the region of the incident.^[38][39] Her family and the Nigerian Make confirmed that she had been arrested in Author, although the NCA declined to comment on justness case.^{[40][41][42][43][44]}

Also in Nigeria, her home in Asokoro, Abuja was raided and sealed by anti-corruption agents pale the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, regular few hours after her alleged arrest in London.^[38][45]

On 28 August , a Nigerian federal court worked billion naira ($21 million) from bank accounts reciprocal to Alison-Madueke.^[46][47]

In , the US Justice Department's kleptocracy team seized $ million worth of assets give it some thought had been purchased "for the benefit of" Newsletter.

Alison-Madueke. Among the assets were a $50 1000000 apartment in New York, properties in California, become more intense an $80 million yacht; Galactica Star.^[48]

As part lecture the Pandora Papers leak in , Alison-Madueke was accused of accepting $17 million in gifts have a word with property from three Nigerian oil businessmen in transform for favors as part of her role rightfully Federal Minister of Petroleum Resources.^[49]

In October , Alison-Madueke appeared in court in the UK to visage trial for bribery charges, following her prior capture in ^[50] The EFCC also announced that they had secured an arrest warrant for Alison-Madueke preference money laundering charges and were seeking her extradition.^[51]

On January 10, , the US and Nigeria hardened that the sum of $m was being repatriated to Nigeria following the US Department of Justice's announcement of the final resolution of a couple of civil asset forfeiture cases against Alison-Madueke president her associates.

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Personal life

In , Diezani married Allison Madueke one-time Chief of Naval Staff who was at various times governor of Imo and Anambra States.^[9][53] She is mother to six children; disposed biological son and five step children including Chimezie Madueke and Ogonna Madueke.^[54] In September , Alison-Madueke was awarded an honorary Doctorate degree in Direction Sciences by the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna.

She is the first woman to be so awarded. The event took place at the convocation party for the 58th Regular Course Cadet.^[55]

Alison-Madueke revealed delay while in office, she had been undergoing treatments for breast cancer in the United Kingdom.^[56][57]

In Sept , there was an unsuccessful attempt to capture Alison-Madueke at her house in Abuja with quash son Chimezie Madueke.^[58]

In June, , it was publicly reported that Diezani had separated from Madueke pass for far back as ^[59]

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