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Oando Acquires Oil Block In Angola

Oando Plc  Favour Ifeoluwa & Akinola Ajibade  Oando Plc  says it has completed and won the bid for the operatorship of oil block KON 13 in Angola. The firm which recently acquired Eni of Italy’s oil assets in Nigeria, said that the award of the oil block located in Angola’s onshore Kwanza Basin followed a competitive bidding process by the country’s oil and gas sector regulator. It further said hat the asset in which it owns 45 per cent participating interest, has estimated prospective resources of 770 to 1,100 million barrels of oil. Oando is handling its operations relating to the asset through its upstream subsidiary, Oando Energy Resources (OER). “Oando Plc,  Africa’s leading indigenous energy solutions provider listed on both the Nigerian Exchange Limited and Johannesburg Stock Exchange is pleased to announce that its upstream subsidiary, Oando Energy Resources (OER), has been awarded operatorship of Block KON 13 in Angola’s Onshore Kwanza Basin, following a...

Police arrest four for rape, cyber crimes, others


By Akinola Ajibade 

The  Ekiti State Police Command has arrested four people for conspiring together to rape and videotaping a 28 years old lady.

In a press statement  signed and released to the National Association of Online Security News Publishers, NAOSNP by the Command’s Spokesperson, ASP Abutu Sunday, the Command said that: "The Juvenile Welfare Centre (JWC) of the State CID,, on 21/04/2022 arrested four individuals for raping and other criminal activities.

The suspects are Miracle Emmanuel ’19yrs’, Bello Tunde ’20yrs’, Peace Osho ’20yrs’ and Emmanuel Oluwaseun ’22yrs’ for conspiracy to rape a lady on her 20s cyber stalking her among other numerous offences.

According to the statement, “The victim narrated that on 5/4/2022, her boyfriend, one Victor who is currently at large, invited her to Lovely Hotel, Ado-Ekiti. She obliged after much persuasion and went to the Hotel to see Victor.”

To her dismay, according to her, on getting to one of the Hotel rooms where Victor lodged, she met him with about four(4) of his friends who were all drinking alcohol, smoking weeds and catching fun.

According to the victim, she was offered one of the bottles of drink which she took and became unconscious. She regained her consciousness at a point only to discover that one of the suspects was having sexual intercourse with her while others were videotaping them and making fun of her.

The victim said she begged them to conceal the video and delete it but to her surprise, the video was later posted on the social media via Tik-Tok.

She immediately reported the case to the Police who swung into action and arrested the four(4) suspects while effort is ongoing to arrest the other fleeing suspect who is at large.

One of the suspects confessed that he actually had sexual intercourse with her in the presence of the other suspect






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