Tuesday, 1 April 2014

Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke, Resigns!

Looks like I have become a great Seer! I dreamt that the unshakable Petroleum Minister, Allison Madueke resigned. Now the news filtering in suggests that this PortHarcourt born Oil and Gass guru has finally thrown in the towel. She resigned after the President advised her to humbly do so after serving Nigeria for 4 controversial years!

Diezani K. Alison-Madueke (born 6 December 1960) became Nigeria’s minister of transportation on 26 July 2007. She was moved to Mines and Steel Development in 2008, and in April 2010 was appointed Minister of Petroleum Resources.


Diezani K. Agama was born on in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Nigeria. Her father was Chief Frederick Abiye Agama. She studied architecture in England and then at Howard University in the United States.[1] She graduated from Howard with a Bachelor’s degree on 8 December 1992.[2] She returned to Nigeria and joined Shell Petroleum Development Corporation that year. In 2002, she attended Cambridge University for her MBA.[1] In April 2006, Shell appointed her its first female Executive Director in Nigeria.[3]
Since 1999 she has been married to Admiral Allison Madueke (retired), one-time Chief of Naval Staff who was at various times governor of Imo and Anambra State.

In September 2011 Alison-Madueke was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Management Sciences by the Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna.

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