June 19, 2026
File: Diezani Alison-Madueke. Photo by Henry NICHOLLS / AFP.
By Adegboyega Adeleye
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, has suggested that her efforts to tackle corruption in Nigeria’s oil industry and the powerful interests affected by those reforms contributed to the legal and political battles that followed her tenure in office.
Speaking in an interview with the BBC days after a London court acquitted her of all bribery charges, Alison-Madueke said the UK’s National Crime Agency, NCA, failed to properly understand the realities of Nigeria’s oil sector before pursuing a case against her.
