Diezani Alison-Madueke Corruption Trial Opens In London
January 27, 2026
1:04 pm
Former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke accepted bribes in the form of luxury goods, high-end property use, and other benefits from oil industry figures seeking lucrative contracts, British prosecutors told a London court on Tuesday.
The allegations were laid out as Alison-Madueke’s long-awaited corruption trial opened at Southwark Crown Court, marking one of the most prominent cases involving a former African energy official in the UK.
The trial is being closely watched in Nigeria and abroad, as Alison-Madueke once held enormous influence over Africa’s largest oil producer and briefly led the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) — becoming …
