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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...
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Deborah made waves at Houston University


Deborah poses after the  legal competition

The University of Houston, United States is one with a difference in the area of bringing out the best in its products. Deborah Gills- Harry, a Law Student in the school bares her minds on how she won the Moot Court Competition. 

The atmosphere was cool, a development, which informed the decision of Deborah, a first generation student in the school to speak with nostalgia how she emerged victorious in the recently organised competition for students, intending to ply their trade in the legal world.
According to her, she was not longing to win the award, when she does. Her reason was borne out of  the facts it was rigourous and demanding to study law in the US, not to talk of winning awards.
Hear her: " As a first generation law student, I never expected to win my very first University of Houston Law Center  Moot Court competition during my 1L first semester. 
Beaming with smiles in a manner depicting somebody who breasted the tape, after she  successfully won a race, Deborah in a finality of tone was full of appreciation. 
" I am very grateful for the opportunity given to me by the university to provide oral arguments in front of a panel, which comprises of attorneys, judges and appellate justices. The experience was a rich and challenging one.
Adding that: " After the competition, which took her two days, she was proud to be the 2022 Blakely-Butler Moot Court Champions alongside her co-cousel Geoffery Okolo" she said.
Deborah, also won the 2022 Blakely-Butler Best Speaker award. Altogether, her victories were 
accompanied with cash prizes sponsored by Jackson Walker.

The following legal experts judged the final round of the competition. They are Justice Meg Poissant – Fourteenth Court of Appeals, 
Judge Yvonne Ho – Federal Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Justice Kevin Jewell – Fourteenth Court of Appeals and 
Justice April Farris – First Court of Appeals.


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