Diezani Alison-Madueke’s documentary ‘Is It Your Money?’ finally released

One year after its viral teaser was released, prompting conversation around the region and becoming a top trending topic on Twitter, Diezani Alison-Madueke’s widely anticipated documentary ‘Is It Your Money?’ has finally been released

The release of the docu-series ‘Is It Your Money?’ was announced today, the 2nd of May, 2025, with an official trailer released on the Instagram handle of its director, Chude Jideonwo (@chudeity).

The four-part docu-series is “the definitive story of how Diezani Alison-Madueke went from the most powerful woman in Africa to Nigeria’s most wanted international fugitive.”

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Hailed as the biggest budget documentary from West Africa to date and primarily funded by the MacArthur Foundation, it was shot across 3 countries – Nigeria, the United Kingdom, and the United States – and across eight cities.

“This has been almost three years of the most painstaking research, shooting, investment, fact-checking, post-production, and fending off multiple threats that we will not talk about just yet,” the director, Jideonwo, says.

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