Diezani Alison-Madueke, Nigerian former minister of petroleum resources, is receiving a new round of treatment for breast cancer, according to Sahara Reports sources.
It was gathered that former minister is now in a hospital in London where she commenced a fresh round of therapy on June 5, Friday.
The treatment was represented as a daily therapy that will continue for one week.
Diezani departed Nigeria on May 23, 2015 on a British Airways flight with President Muhammadu Buhari on the board of the same plane.
The development caused allegations that the ex-minister might have hastily booked herself on the flight for the opportunity to talk to president.
Meanwhile, Buhari softly but steadfastly discouraged all attempts by former minister to hold a conversation during the 6-hour flight.
Alison Madueke has not come back to the country since that trip.
The sources said that Diezani, whose term of office as minister was targeted by several billion-dollar scandals, underwent surgery last year to take away tumors from her breast.
Alison-Madueke as one of the closest ministers to ex-president Goodluck Jonathan was at the center of a controversy over more than $20 billion in oil revenues that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation reportedly failed to deposit at the Central Bank of Nigeria.
There were reports that President Buhari has indicated that he would personally run the Petroleum Ministry as well as Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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