Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke is one of the hottest trending topics right now as criticisms and allegations are flying in from all over cyber-sphere regarding her shady dealings and arrest in London by the The National Crime Agency in the UK.
Here are key facts about Diezani, one of Nigeria’s most powerful women, that many don’t know about:
1. Diezani was born in Port Harcourt, Rivers State to Chief Frederick Abiye Agama. She studied architecture in England before proceeding to Howard University, USA where she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in 1992. She attended Cambridge University in 2002 for her MBA.
2. In April 2006, Shell appointed her its first female Executive Director in Nigeria.
3. In 1999 she got married to Admiral Allison Madueke (retired), one-time Chief of Naval Staff who was at various times governor of Imo and Anambra State. She has two sons, Chimezie Madueke and Ugonna Madueke.
4. Alison-Madueke is the first woman to ever hold the position of Minister of Petroleum Resources in Nigeria, and in October 2010 she became the first woman to head a country delegation at the annual OPEC conference.
5. She was also the first female Minister of Transportation, and the first woman to be appointed to the board of Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria.
6. In 2014, she got elected as the first female President of OPEC.
7. In June 2008 Alison-Madueke was probed by the Nigerian Senate after it emerged that as Transport Minister she had paid 30.9 billion naira ($263 million) to contractors between 26 and 31 December 2007.
8. In September 2008 there was an unsuccessful attempt to kidnap the former minister at her house in Abuja with her son Chimezie Madueke.
9. She is reportedly worth several billions of Naira and has been criticized for owning and maintaining a private jet with state funds, awarding multi-billion Naira contracts without following due process and reckless spending of government money.
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