Nigeria: PIB and Alison-Madueke

29 July 2012
opinion

The first time I came across Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke, the first female to be so appointed Minister of Petroleum in Nigeria, was in 2007 on the Lagos- Ibadan Express way. I was with TheNews magazine at the time and was travelling from Lagos to Akure, Ondo State capital to do a story on the governorship tussle in the election tribunal between Governor Olusegun Mimiko and his predecessor, Dr. Olusegun Agagu. The Madueke that I saw that day cried profusely.

As the then Minister of Transport, she had taken time out to do an on-the-spot assessment of major roads in the country and Lagos Ibadan road which had become a death trap was one of her ports of call.

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