Presiding over the ministry of petroleum resources in Nigeria has often been akin to running the gauntlet. It hasn't been different for Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke who turned 52 on Wednesday. But she has managed the familiar cynicism with grace and a remarkable commitment to transforming the country's oil and gas industry, writes Crusoe Osagie
The days are long gone when women were simply defined through a prism that seemed to see just their limitations. Ask the Amazons in Team Jonathan. These women, the transformation drivers - if you like - represent the key pivots around which President Goodluck Jonathan plans to incept a new Nigeria, even against the background of curious negative scripts allegedly being pushed by shadowy forces to scuttle change. Of course, one of the key Amazons, by some coincidence from the creeks of Bayelsa State, is Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke, the minister for the strategic ministry of petroleum.
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