7 women Embroiled In Huge Corruption Scandals In Nigeria

Read the most interesting cases, allegations and accusations against women suspected of corruption in huge scales in Nigeria. Diezani Alison-Madueke’s name has become the synonym to shady deals with oil revenues. 1. Diezani Alison-Madueke is a beautiful face in the ugly business of corruption.

Her name has become the synonym with the embezzlement scandals. Alison-Madueke is one of the most controversial members of President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. She was accused of spending N10 billion of state funds to charter, operate and maintain a jet for her personal use. Besides that Alison-Madueke has been accused by the former CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of embezzling cosmic sum of $ 20 billion. He insists that the former petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke is responsible for disappearance of $20 billion in oil revenues from the national treasury. The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ajjampur R. Ghanashyam accused Alison-Madueke of stealing at least $ 25 million from Indian businessmen in a shady oil deal. Alison-Madueke strongly denies all the accusations. Nevertheless, according to a report by Sahara Reporters, in order to receive immunity from prosecution Diezani Alison-Madueke has allegedly offered Muhammadu Buhari at least $250 million dollars. President Buhari, however, didn’t take the offer. Stella Oduah - Stella Oduah’s name was embroiled in several scandals.
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Stella Oduah , the former Nigerian Minister of Aviation in the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, was involved in the corruption scandal of buying two bulletproof BMW cars at an allegedly inflated rate of N255m. However, Justice Mohammed Yunusa restrained the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission from arresting the former minister of aviation on September 3. The decision of a Federal High Court in Lagos also stopped the attorney general of the federation, the inspector general of police and the Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission from inviting Oduah for questioning. Besides that her Masters’ degree has been challenged by St Paul’s College, the United States school which supposedly awarded it. Marylin Ogar Former DSS spokesperson Marilyn Ogar Marilyn Ogar is accused of collecting bribes.
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Marilyn Ogar, a former Department of State Security spokesman was also accused of collecting bribes shortly before the governorship elections in Osun state from the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) to supply lorry-loads of dual purpose kerosene. Besides that she made a very strange politically charged statement, telling that t he APC party offered two top SSS officials a combined bribe of N14m to influence the Osun State Guber election. Ngozi Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is accused of mismanagement while in Jonathan’s administration
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Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was accused of stealing $1 billion while serving as finance minister in Jonathan’s administration. President Muhammadu Buhari demanded three weeks ago to explain where $1.005 billion loan obtained from China in 2012 under President Goodluck Jonathan, disappeared. However, Okonjo-Iweala denied the accusations of misspending the money, as well as the allegations that her family was planning to open a multi-million dollar hospital in Abuja. Toyin Saraki Toyin Saraki is suspected by EFCC of alleged money laundering while her husband Bukola Saraki served as Kwara governor.
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Toyin Saraki, wife of the Senate President and former governor of Kwara state, Bukola Saraki, was invited this summer by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to explain the strange inflow of funds into companies where she had interests when her husband was the governor of Kwara state. Reacting to the EFCC invitation, Toyin Saraki, said she will honour the invitation. However, her appearance at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Abuja with an unruly crowd of supporters caused commotion. The crowd forced their way into the offices of the EFCC’s Director of Operations, accusing the agency of bias. However, a senior agent at the EFCC said the agency had generated solid evidence of graft against the Senate president’s wife and so they were not bothered by her entourage. Zainab-Dakingari Zainab Dakingari suspected by EFCC of alleged fraud worth 2 billion naira.
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Zainab Dakingari , the daughter of former president Umaru Yar’ Adua and wife of former Kebbi state ex-Governor, Saidu Dakingari, was accused by EFCC of a fraud worth N 2 billion perpetrated during her husband’s tenure as governor of the state. EFCC wants her to explain the source of the steady stream of huge cash into her companies, while she held sway as ‘first lady’ of Kebbi state. Iyabo-Obasanjo-Bello Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello was involved in N300 million money laundering scandal
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Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello , the daughter of Nigerian ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo, was embroiled in a money laundering scandal worth N300 million. In 2008, EFCC charged her to court, but she urged the court to dismiss the charges on the grounds that that the money allegedly given to her by the ministry of health had been spent for a bribe given to the Senate Committee on Health members. Besides that she together with her colleagues spent N500,000 each for a full-paid trip for a seminar in a luxury hotel in Ghana. Three weeks the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan has been accused of looting about $56bn (N11.02tn) by the All Progressives Congress (APC).