Diezani-Allison Madueke born December 6, 1960, is a Nigerian Minister of Petroleum Ressources.until her appointment, she was the immediate past minister in charge of solid minerals. Before then she was the minister of transport.
She came into the Yar'adua government in 2007 from her position as a Director Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC). She is a shell girl having grown up with her parents who were employees of shell.
Allison-Madueke studied architecture in Washington D.C. before returning to Nigeria in 1992 to work for her father's old employer -Shell. Over the next 15 years she rose to become Shell's first female director in Nigeria, completing an MBA at Cambridge University along the way, before she was appointed minister in 2007.
With only 13 months before the end of this administration, Allison-Madueke — whose first name Diezani means “look before you leap” in her local dialect — faces a tight deadline. She will have to oversee the implementation of the Petroleum Industry Bill (PIB) when passed into law by the National Assembly. She also will be saddled with the responsibility of administering the deregulation of the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry
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