NIGERIA’S PETROLEUM MINISTER, ALISON-MADUEKE ELECTED OPEC PRESIDENT
Nigeria's
Petroleum Minister, Mrs Diezani Allison Madueke, has been elected as President
of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).
Alison-Madueke’s
election as President of OPEC took place on Thursday at the ongoing 166th
ordinary meeting of the Organisation, taking place in Vienna, Austria.
She becomes the first female to be elected into that position, and replaces Libya’s Vice Prime Minister for Corporations, Abdourhman Atahar Al-Ahirish, who was occupying the position.
Before her election, Mrs Alison-Madueke was the alternate
president of OPEC and is expected to immediately begin to serve her one-year
term at the helm of OPEC affairs.
It is expected that OPEC, during its ongoing 166th meeting,
would make key decisions that could halt the dwindling price of crude oil.
Diezani K. Alison-Madueke, born 6 December 1960, became
Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation on July 26, 2007. She was moved to Mines
and Steel Development in 2008, and in April 2010 was appointed Minister of
Petroleum Resources.
culled from 'Channels TV Blog'
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