Diezani Alison-Madueke Documentary Set To Premiere This Year

Nigerian TV host, Chude Jideonwo has announced the release of Is it Your Money?, a documentary about former petroleum minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. The Story of Diezani Alison-Madueke will premiere later this year.

In an Instagram post on Tuesday, June 25, 2024, Jideonwo described the documentary as the "biggest-budget docu-series from our dear country."

He said: “Over the past two years, a 100+ member team has been working quietly on the most ambitious, biggest-budget docu-series project from our dear country. Shot across 3 countries, Covering 8 cities, We traced confirmed and alleged loot across 15 jurisdictions. With exclusive access to investigators from the FBI, the MET Police and the EFCC,” 

In April 2010, the former president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, swore in Alison-Madueke as the first woman to hold the Minister of Petroleum Resources position in the country.

In October 2010, she became the first woman to head a country delegation at the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) conference.

She was also the first female Minister of Transportation and the first woman appointed to the Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria board. On November 27, 2014, she was elected the first female president of OPEC.