OPEC’s First Lady Alison-Madueke Grapples With Reform
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Diezani Alison-Madueke will take her seat as the first female oil minister in OPEC when the group meets in Vienna next month. A far tougher role may be the one she’s playing at home in Nigeria.
Appointed in March as petroleum minister of Africa’s biggest oil-producing nation, Alison-Madueke will spearhead President Goodluck Jonathan’s struggle with international companies that pump the country’s oil and insurgent groups whose armed attacks have slowed investment in Nigeria for five years.