The London trial of Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former Minister of Petroleum Resources, focused on a series of luxury furniture transactions on Monday, with testimony revealing a complex web of aliases, entourages, and third-party payments. The case, unfolding at Southwark Crown Court, centres on whether millions spent on London properties, renovations, and shopping constituted bribes or […]
The bribery trial of former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke entered its fourth day at the Crown Court in Southwark, with the defence intensifying its focus on missing evidence and the conspicuous absence of key individuals from the dock. As the prosecution began to present its detailed evidence of lavish spending, the defence team pointed […]
A former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke has called on Nigerians to pray for her over the multi-million pound bribery and corruption allegations brought against her by the United Kingdom National Crime Agency (NCA). “I need prayers. Please pray for me,” she told members of the Nigerian community in the UK after the hearing […]
Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Abdulrasheed Bawa, has disclosed that the anti-graft agency recovered $153 million from former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. He said the agency also recovered the final forfeiture of over 80 properties in Nigeria valued at about $80 million from the minister, who has […]
Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, says online fraudsters are the role model youths look up today today in society, as she discussed on the importance of mentorship. READ ALSO: Dominican republic withdraws Diezani Alison… Diezani said this while delivering a lecture at a virtual event organized by the Ijaw National Development Group, on […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has said that the reports that it has dropped money laundering charges against a former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, and her is false and misleading. The EFCC In a statement by its spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said ‘at no time did the Commission withdraw the charge, which is still […]
The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to bring former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke to court March 10 2020 or the case will be striked it out. Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu speaking during the trail said, “My docket is not going to be a […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has contacted ‘internationally certified’ auctioneers overseas to auction off the $40 million (about N14.4 billion) jewelry, recovered from a former Petroleum Resources Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. EFCC acting Chairman Ibrahim Magu said 242 trailers and tankers recovered from internet scammers will also be auctioned off. Supreme Court ruling […]
The Federal Government has reacted to the barrage of attacks by some of the named treasury looters and has gone further to name 23 others, most of them members of the Peoples Democratic Party. In a press statement, Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Mohammed said the list of alleged looters which Government […]
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Efforts by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to rid the country of corruption got a boost on Tuesday as a Federal High Court in Lagos ordered that two penthouse structures, linked to a former Minister of Petroleum, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, should be temporary forfeited to the Federal Government. The court also ordered that […]
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on Thursday questioned and detained a former Benue Governor, Gabriel Suswam, for allegedly collecting the sum of N450 million from the former Petroleum Minister, Alison Madueke. A top anonymous source who confided in the Daily Times said that Suswam was invited to explain his role in the sharing […]
Peter Fowoyo, Lagos Fifty-six choice properties, situated in Lagos, Port Harcourt and Abuja valued at $21, 982, 224 (about N3.3billion) allegedly linked to a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Allison -Madueke, were on Wednesday ordered by a Federal High Court, Ikoyi, Lagos be permanently forfeited to the Federal Government. Also joined as respondents […]
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has stated that it is impossible to bring a former minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke to Nigeria now to answer for alleged corruption charges against her. The commission noted, that the former minister was under investigation in the United Kingdom by the Metropolitan Police, hence she can’t […]
The Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has ordered the interim forfeiture of assets valued at $16,441,906 that have been linked the former Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission told Justice Abdulaziz Anka that the assets are suspected to be proceeds of corruption. More to follow
*Also directs forfeiture of $2.7m, N84.5m rent A Federal High Court in Ikoyi on Monday ordered the final forfeiture to the Federal Government, a $37.5million high rise building on Banana Island, Lagos, belonging to the former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke. Justice Chuka Obiozor also ordered that $2.7m and N84.5m realised as rents […]
A former United States State Department specialist, Mr Mathew Page, has said that a civil forfeiture case to seize assets worth $144 million from two cronies of former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, may just be the beginning of her legal troubles with the US. The US Justice Department last week filed an […]