The publisher of Ovation magazine, Dele Momodu, has released photos of cancer-stricken Nigeria’s former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, in the inaugural issue of a brand new tabloid titled Boss magazine.


Last week, Mr. Momodu devoted his weekly column in Thisday newspaper to relating his experience meeting with the seriously sick former minister for an interview in the UK.

The column engendered significant controversy on social media, with many readers accusing the columnist cum celebrity publisher of helping to launder Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s image.

Some of the column’s critics felt that Mr. Momodu’s brief was to garner public sympathy for the embattled ex-minister, who is the focus of money laundering investigations in the UK as well as Nigeria.


Former Nigerian Oil Minister
Ovation Magazine/Boss Newspaper
Today, Mr. Momodu released the text of an interview with Mrs. Madueke along with photos of the physically ravaged former minister.

The shocking photos are a far cry from the ex-minister’s former radiant and energetic persona.


However, the release of the former minister’s devastated physique has left many Nigerians on social media still skeptical.


Many commentators have speculated that images of her ravaged appearance could have been “photo-shopped” in order to curry public sympathy for a woman who was one of the brashest members of former President Goodluck Jonathan’s cabinet.


Earlier today, SaharaReporters spoke by phone to Mr. Momodu who was transiting in Dubai, United Arab Emirate, to ask if he was willing to release original copies of Mrs. Alison-Madueke’s photos to our reporter.

He said he could not, explaining that he had signed “several” legal agreements never to release the photos to a third party.


SaharaReporters was first to exclusively report close to a year ago that Mrs. Alison-Madueke was suffering from cancer and making frequent trips to the UK for treatment. At the time, she was still the most powerful member of Mr. Jonathan’s cabinet.


Following one of our reports on her sickness, the then Petroleum Minister issued a statement refuting our report.

However, a month ago, her attorney sent a letter to SaharaReporters and other media organizations admitting for the first time that the former powerful Petroleum Minister was undergoing treatment for breast cancer in the UK.


In September, the UK National Crimes Agency arrested Mrs. Alison-Madueke in connection with fraud. She was granted bail and has not been charged in any British court.

However, UK authorities confiscated some cash from Mrs. Alison-Madueke, her mother, Beatrice Agama, and Melanie Spencer, the wife of Kevin Okyere, a Ghanaian businessman identified as one of the former minister’s alleged co-conspirators.


http://saharareporters.com/2015/11/14/photos-cancer-stricken-diezani-alison-madueke-released

I don't know why they keep circulating this pics. Is it to taunt her or to draw sympathy for her?

Cancer is real. It doesn't recognize the rich.
You don't appreciate good health until you lack it.
May all those who are ill be healed.

God, have mercy on this woman. It is within Your divine power to heal her Lord, so we ask that You send forth Your healing power into her body from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet.

Intervene in her life, fight this disease that threatens her life, and set her free from it. Please Lord, You are her Creator. Restore health into her flesh and ransom her from evil. Òlìsà ebùlu ùẉà please support and rescue her from adversity. Amen.

Amen.

Amen

laudate:
God, have mercy on this woman. It is within Your divine power to heal her Lord, so we ask that You send forth Your healing power into her body from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet.

Intervene in her life, fight this disease that threatens her life, and set her free from it. Please Lord, You are her Creator. Restore health into her flesh and ransom her from evil. Òlìsà ebùlu ùẉà please support and rescue her from adversity. Amen.

She will survive it. Her Petroleum Information Bill (PIB) she championed will not be forgotten in a hurry. Vanity upon vanity all an VANITIES!