{"id":84213,"date":"2026-01-29T22:23:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=84213"},"modified":"2026-01-29T22:23:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:23:22","slug":"ex-nigerian-oil-minister-alison-madueke-just-a-rubber-stamp-lawyer-tells-uk-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/29\/ex-nigerian-oil-minister-alison-madueke-just-a-rubber-stamp-lawyer-tells-uk-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Nigerian oil minister Alison-Madueke just a &#8216;rubber stamp&#8217;, lawyer tells UK trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1VgCo2.img?w=534&amp;h=377&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Nigeria's former Petroleum Minister Diezani Alison-Madueke arrives at Southwark Crown Court, where she faces six bribery charges in connection with the awarding of oil contracts, in London, Britain, January 28, 2026. REUTERS\/Hiba Kola\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke had no real influence over the awarding of lucrative government contracts and was merely a &#8220;rubber stamp&#8221; for official recommendations,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/ex-nigerian-oil-minister-alison-madueke-just-a-rubber-stamp-lawyer-tells-uk-trial\/ar-AA1VgJum?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=697ba78eb9384e5aa4a8c2fe438c6456&amp;ei=52\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Former Nigerian oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke had no real influence over the awarding of lucrative government contracts and was merely a &#8220;rubber&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84092,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84213","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nigeria"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Diezani-Alison-Madueke.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84213"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84214,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84213\/revisions\/84214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}