Thursday 12 June 2014

Nigeria loses bid to produce OPEC Secretary General!




Alleged decisions of the members of OPEC to extend the tenure of the incumbent Secretary General, Abdullah al-Badri till June 30, 2015 dashed the move by Nigeria to produce the first female secretary general.

This came on  Wednesday as Nigeria’s Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, who was nominated by President Gooduck Jonathan to become the Secretary General of the influential Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), was dropped as a communique at the end of the meeting said OPEC decided to extend the tenure of the current holder of the office for a period of six months from 1 January 2015.

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