The matter, which was before a Federal High Court in Abuja presided over by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu was fixed for Monday, May 17, for the EFCC to give a report on its effort at extraditing Alison-Madueke to the country to stand her trial.
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According to the EFCC, a former acting Governor of Taraba State, Senator Sani Abubakar, chaired the committee that supervised the sharing of N450 million in Taraba State and a former Minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Joel Danlami, benefited from the cash, while Senator Sa’idu Kumo of Gombe State collected N450 million campaign fund for the re-election of former president Goodluck Jonathan
The statement said: “Only God knows the worth of her mortgage in the US, Germany, Switzerland, South Africa, etc, even at this time when the nation’s economy is gasping for breath and roads turned death traps. A N3.7b mortgage when states cannot pay salaries and thousands of Nigerians still lacking affordable houses is height of insensitivity and wickedness. The act overtly is nothing but a case of man’s inhumanity to man
Ghanashyam said: “From other countries, when we buy oil, whatever we want to pay, we pay to the Ministry of Finance of that country. In Nigeria, we pay to intermediaries. We would like to be dealing directly with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation. It’s not a good thing. Why should we go through intermediaries? Secondly, we would also like to have long term agreement, which we have with many countries: Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and other countries from where we buy oil. Nigeria is the only country with whom we don’t have an agreement. .. When we write a letter to NNPC, we don’t get a response
Delivering judgment on Wednesday, Justice Ahmed Mohammed held that although the lawmakers had the power to summon the minister, they did not follow due process in doing so
The Chairman of the meeting and Minister of Energy and Industry of Qatar, Dr. Mohammed Saleh Alsada, announced this in a communiqué read at the end of the meeting
Speaking to State House correspondents on Wednesday, Alison-Madueke, however, admitted that she was taking over the leadership of OPEC at a challenging period.
Her words: “This is a very challenging time as you know for OPEC and for the global crude oil wells as a whole
Kalu noted that Alison-Madueke’s election is an acknowledgement of her positive contributions to the international oil body while she held sway as Alternate President
The President of NUPENG, Achese Igwe, and his PENGASSAN counterpart, Francis Johnson, gave the ultimatum midway into a joint National Executive Council meeting of the two unions in Abuja on Friday
Justice Ahmed Mohammed granted the order in a ruling on the application argued by Etigwa Uwa (SAN), the lawyer to the minister and co-plaintiff, Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation
The Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Maduke, announced the plan in Abuja at a joint press briefing with the Ministry of Power and the Central Bank of Nigeria
The staff had appealed to the committee members to intervene in their matter because all appeals made in writing to the project’s supervising ministry to pay their 18 months salary had been ignored.
Consequently, President Goodluck Jonathan has nominated her for the highly influential position as the 165th Ordinary Meeting of OPEC holds in Vienna, Austria.
The House on March 27 mandated its Public Accounts Committee to investigate Alison-Madueke’s use of state funds in the last two years to charter, operate and maintain a jet for her personal use
In a statement in Lagos on Sunday by its Interim National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party said the investigation into the scandal is of great public interest, hence those who are reportedly piling pressure on the House Committee on Public Accounts to abandon it should back off
Alison-Madueke said this when she spoke at the 2014 budget defence of the ministry before the joint Senate committee on Petroleum Resources (Upstream) and Senate Committee on Gas
Alison-Madueke said this at the 2014 budget defence of her ministry and its parastatals before the House of Representatives Committees on Petroleum Resources (Upstream and Downstream) and Gas
Fashola, who spoke at the Lagos House, Ikeja, while hosting the Consul-General of Lebanon, Dima Haddad, and members of the Lebanese Nigeria Initiatives, who had come to present a cheque for N80 million and the keys to a troop carrier truck donated to the Lagos State Security Trust Fund, said continued silence of the stakeholders on the issue constituted an injustice against the ordinary Nigerians who have had to contribute from their meagre earnings to fund projects and programmes that are constitutionally the responsibility of government