This is highly doubtful although it's the right thing to do. Nigeria is a funny country though. Don't be surprised if it's the Customs chief that opened the pandora box that is sacked.

This story is not true peeps!!!

knotty:

AMEN and amen, again and again,

But did you and Amos Tutuola school in the same place?

Lol

Good

@OP, are you sure you have not muddled the sense of sight with the sense of hearing?

Methinks Madam (Dame II) is still very much "on seat"  

ACN ASKS FG TO SEND PETROLEUM MINISTER ON COMPULSORY LEAVE

The Action Congress of Nigeria has asked the Federal Government to send the Minister of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke on compulsory leave, as well as the immediate withdrawal of soldiers from the streets of Lagos.

Addressing a news conference in Abuja, the National Secretary of the party, Mr. Lawan Shuaibu says it is impossible for the Economics and Financial Crimes Commission to investigate the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources while the minister remains in office.

The opposition party also appealed to the National Assembly Public Accounts committee to investigate the KPMG report and ensure the prosecution of whoever authorized the payment of the subsidy that rose from N245 billion to N1.3 trillion in the 2011 budget without appropriation.

During a presentation to the House of Representatives’ ad-hoc committee investigating the subsidy regime, petroleum minister Madueke argued that the exorbitant amount was due in large part to payments made on Kerosene subsidy. Speaking to the committee, Madueke said “the 1.3 trillion represents both PMS and Kerosene together,” adding that the payments of Kerosene subsidy in arrears “created the spike last year”.

In her presentations she said the NNPC was trying to recover the 2008 and 2009arrears, which it had until then carried solely. The arrear payments from both years amounted to N250 billion she said, and said additional current subsidy payments brought the total figure of Kerosene subsidy to slightly over N300 billion.

The petroleum ministers as well as finance minister Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala have both come under fire as the House and indeed Nigerians at large have demanded answers on how the funds were disbursed and where the corrupt loop holes lie.

The ad-hoc committee’s probe, investigating the subsidy regime is ongoing, and the finance minister is expected to appear before the committee on 19 January 2012.

Source: http://www.channelstv.com/global/news_details.php?nid=31092&cat=Politics

Confirmed?!

Petroleum Minister sent on compulsory leave.

see details here,

http://5slate..com/2012/01/petroleum-minister-alison-madueke-sent.html#axzz1jSqGs1Ow

Pukkah:

This is highly doubtful although it's the right thing to do. Nigeria is a funny country though. Don't be surprised if it's the Customs chief that opened the pandora box that is sacked.

Do you expect jonathan to sack his mistress before ? Never under-estimate the power of a woman.

millionbuc:

Confirmed?!

Petroleum Minister sent on compulsory leave.

see details here,

http://5slate..com/2012/01/petroleum-minister-alison-madueke-sent.html#axzz1jSqGs1Ow

You need to read the article provided by your link once more for clarity.

The woman na fine babe sha.
Gats maintain herself with all that money

http://5slate..com/2012/01/petroleum-minister-alison-madueke-sent.html#axzz1jSqGs1Ow

plain disgusting and irresponsible journalism at its crassest best

I am just listening to Channels new at 10, but nothing of that sort is said. Please cross check your news

This might be the same propaganda news carried out by GEJ sympathizer like @beaf and co. If this is true every corrupt body need to go and be investigate including the retardeen himself.

liars, checked AIT nothing. This crude matter.

fowl yansh go soon open,more suspension on d way(NOI e.t.c)

She is not sacked

The love for Oil by the South western cabal will lead them to all manner of lies, juju no work , lies no work now na to mis-inform the general public. Desperate opposition. So Lagos no reach Tinubu and his cohorts, dem wan still oil too.

Even IOCs will want the minister removed because of all the changes she is institutionalising.

RE: Diezani Ordered Subsidy Removal –Investigation
The investigative article published by Punch Newspaper on the 14th of January 2012, that sought to establish that the Hon. Minister of Petroleum Diezani Alison-Madueke was the brain child behind the January 1st announcement on FUEL SUBSIDY REMOVAL cannot be anything more than FALSEHOOD because the allegation lacks ethical merit and only seek to take advantage of gullible Nigerians.
Nevertheless, CREDITS must be given to the sensational, vague and verbose writers (Niyi Odebode, Olusola Fabiyi, Everest Amaefule and Fidelis Soriwei), for their efforts at nothing to promote the AGENDA of perceived detractors; who will stop at nothing at carrying out cowardly and unpatriotic campaigns against the people of Nigeria and their government.
I agree with the writers that the January 1st timing of the announcement to implement subsidy removal was not the best of expected dates. Nonetheless, the writers attempt to the single out the Petroleum Minister as regards to January 1st announcement, suggest that there is a sinister and desperate motive by detractors to pitch Nigerians against the Hon. Minister of Petroleum (the unappreciated workhorse); whom I believe is driven by the need to support the transformation agenda of the government whilst returning Nigeria to Nigerians. Otherwise, why would she subject herself and family to public criticism?
These falsehoods peddled by the aforementioned wanabe investigative writers cannot hold because what Punch published, is a mere speculative opinion of the contributors to the investigation of the writers, if indeed, they carried out an imaginative but frivolous research on ‘Who Announced the Subsidy Removal on the 1st of January 2012?’
If certainly, they carried out such research, and the contributors are part of the government of the day, one has no choice but to rightly refer to such unpatriotic individuals as the ‘Fifth Columnists’ that the President must be wary of. How do Nigerians verify vague reporting centred on sources speculated to be disgruntled but are in the corridors of power.

The way she was fanning herself at the debate over fuel subsidy removal, it was obvious she knew the heat was coming her way.

another beer parlour rumor

Is like Oga Jonathan has woken up ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

GEJ suspending DAM?? una dey dream?? its going to be a slippery slope, and 'they' know it. If she goes others will have to follow: NNPC GMD, PPRA head, customs comptroller, and who knows, it may get to the finance minister.

This situation presents a real opportunity for the right thing to be done.

make dem first collect all our money and crude oil frm her before they sack or suspend her

Diezani Alison-Madueke Suspended From Petroleum Ministry?

I think i got the poster question properly, The answer is "NO"

Martin Quinlan, LONDON: Shell and other foreign companies with operations in Nigeria's onshore potentially face large compensation claims for past oil spills, following a case brought in London's High Court by a local community. In August, the Shell Petroleum Development Company told the court that it accepted liability for two oil spills in Ogoniland, an area in the Niger delta, in 2008 and 2009 and agreed to pay compensation to the Bodo fishing community.

Shell's wholly owned SPDC operates its joint-venture with a 30% share. Its partners are the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (55%), Total (10%) and Eni (5%).

Compensation is to be decided under Nigerian law - according to lawyers acting for the community, it should be made up of the clean-up cost, compensation for damage to community land and compensation to individuals. Shell said it accepted the spills were caused by equipment failure and not by deliberate damage or as a consequence of the theft of oil - the most common causes of oil spills in the delta.

But Mutiu Sunmonu, managing director of the company's Nigeria subsidiary, said the two spills amounted to only about 4,000 barrels of oil. He criticised speculation by the community's lawyers about the scale of the compensation as "massively in excess of the true position".

The community's success in taking its case to the London courts could set a precedent for compensation claims, which up to now have mostly been settled on an individual basis in Nigeria. Shell, the largest operator of onshore acreage in the country, is most exposed to potential claims, but ExxonMobil, Chevron, Total and Eni also operate onshore areas in the delta.

Shell's defence

Shell had been defending the action on the ground that it was forced to withdraw from Ogoniland in 1993, and to abandon its fields, when attacks on staff made it too dangerous to operate there. But the company has been trying to draw a line under past disputes. Two years ago, it paid compensation to the families of Ogoni leaders, including the writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, who were executed by the last military government, although the company refuted allegations that it could have prevented the deaths. It is understood that talks are under way to hand over the operatorship of the Ogoniland assets to the state's NNPC, but Shell will not comment.

Shell says 70% of the oil spilled in its Niger delta operations over the last five years has been the result of illegal activity - either deliberate damage to facilities, with the aim of claiming compensation for the resulting spill, or theft of equipment, or as a consequence of the theft of oil from pipelines and wellheads. Last year, the company recorded 144 spills of more than 100 kilograms, of which 112 were the result of sabotage or theft. Shell says many of its operational spills occur when assets that have been out of action following deliberate damage are re-started.

Theft of crude continues on an industrial scale, with organisers hiring barges to take the oil to tankers waiting offshore. Trains and road-tankers are used to carry crude away by land. Last year, the authorities seized 28 barges and 38 other boats in actions against oil theft, but Shell says they represent only a small fraction of the assets being utilised.

Illegal refining

Additionally, recent years have seen an increase in illegal refining - distilling crude with makeshift equipment, which Shell says goes on at numerous sites around the delta's watercourses. A video made by CNN, available on the Shell Nigeria website, shows one such operation: crude is being heated in oil drums over oil fires, with diesel condensed in water-filled drums and flowing out of pipes, only metres away from the fires. A canoe is filled with diesel and paddled away, while unwanted residues are discarded into the rivers.

Also in August, the UN Environment Programme published a report - carried out at the Nigerian government's request - into oil contamination of Ogoniland. The organisation's 14-month study had involved drilling 142 wells to test groundwater; drilling 780 boreholes to test soil; surveying 122 km of pipelines; and examining over 200 locations. The report describes serious and widespread pollution, with contamination of groundwater, drinking water, the vital mangrove swamps and the soil. Restoration could be "the world's most wide-ranging and long-term oil clean-up exercise", taking 25-30 years.

she is OYO if the story is true f

, tyme shal tel,

jonathan should also be suspended for either or both of corruption and negligence. imagine!!!! 25% of your country's budget's is stolen under your nostril (by the connivance of your minister with some pple) and u want to claim ignorance? to me, it is just obvious he doenst the least idea of wat is going on in nigeria, and consequently, he is not fit to lead the country

If OBJ can try Tafa Bolagun a whole IG of Nigeria on alleged corruption, let see what Jona will do to this. Hmmm, Just thinking aloud If Nigeria Customs can testify against an entity in Nigeria, this case is very serious, !.Because even custom hmmmm,