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NIGERIA’S PETROLEUM MINISTER, ALLISON MADUEKE EMERGES AS FIRST OPEC FEMALE PRESIDENT

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Nigeria’s Petroleum
Minister, Mrs Diezani Allison Madueke, has been elected as President of the
Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Alison-Madueke’s election
as President of OPEC took place on Thursday at the ongoing 166th ordinary
meeting of the Organisation, taking place in Vienna, Austria.
She becomes the
first female to be elected into that position, and replaces Libya’s Vice Prime
Minister for Corporations, Abdourhman Atahar Al-Ahirish, who was occupying the
position.
Before her
election, Mrs Alison-Madueke was the alternate president of OPEC and is
expected to immediately begin to serve her one-year term at the helm of OPEC
affairs.
Diezani K.
Alison-Madueke became Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation on July 26, 2007.
She was moved to Mines and Steel Development in 2008, and in April 2010 was
appointed Minister of Petroleum Resources.
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