A suit involving Diezani Alison-Madueke, has been adjourned by a Southwark Crown Court in the United Kingdom to November 2025.
Alison-Madueke, Nigeria’s former minister of petroleum resources, has been on trial over an alleged £100,000 bribe and the new development means she would have spent 10 years in the UK by her next trial date.
Alison-Madueke was on October 2, 2023 granted bail in the sum of £70,000 by Michael Snow, the district judge at the Westminster Magistrates Court in the UK after deeming her “a flight risk”.
Snow imposed strict conditions on Alison-Madueke like an 11 pm to 6 am curfew and an electronic tag to be worn at all times before he granted her bail.
Madueke left Nigeria in 2015 shortly before Goodluck Jonathan handed over to ex-President Muhammadu Buhari, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on her trail since then.
The commission alleged that Alison-Madueke stole $2.5 billion from Nigeria’s coffers as minister.
