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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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176.3m Nigerians live in dirtiest environment

Indiscrimate dumping of refuse 

Over 176.3 million Nigerians are living in dirty environment, a report from  Clean Up Nigeria (CUN), an international non governmental organization (NGO) has said.

The report came from the studies carried out between December 2021 to November 2022 by the organisation. 

It, however, named Akwa Ibom state as the cleanest states in Nigeria.

According to the CUN, report, Akwa Ibom state scored 54% to emerged the most clean state in Nigeria followed by Ebonyi and Bauchi states respectively.

At a briefing in Abuja, Clean-up Nigeria's Founder,  Prince Ene Baba Owoh Jr. stated that there is need to encourage alternative actions on personal hygiene/sanitation in order to ensure a cleaner, healthier and safer Nigeria for all and in the end make the world a better place to live.

According to him, their organisation’s statistical data indicates that 32 out of 36 States including the rest of FCT, are rated as unclean States.

He added:”Performance indicators from our studies shows that over 176.3million Nigerians in 2022 are living in unclean environment, compared to 172 million in 2021.

“There have been no increase in the number of States with sanitary landfills beside Lagos, Oyo, Abuja and Bauchi while the remaining 34 States operate open dumping. This development is not only alarming but clearly indicate lack of seriousness by government at levels to key into the global best practices of waste modernization with related benefit.

“As our graphic chart statistics on monitoring and evaluation of the states have shown only 7 States (Akwa Ibom, Abuja, Cross River, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Lagos and Kaduna) who scored above 10% out of the 30% on the streets/roads cleanliness indicators have clean roads in the country.

“It is imperative to know that the year 2022 study has the input of 70% satellite monitoring with the applied performance indicators early stated to score across board the ratings of States and Cities on their Cleanliness
Performance.

“As our graphic chart statistics on monitoring/evaluation of the States have shown only 7 States (Akwa Ibom, Abuja, Cross River, Bauchi, Ebonyi, Lagos and Kaduna) who scored above 10% out of the 30% on the streets/roads cleanliness indicators have clean roads in the country.

“On personal hygiene and sanitation only four States (Akwa Ibom, Plateau, Cross River and Abuja City) scored above 4% of the 15% and can be said to come close to possession of good personal hygiene and sanitation practices in the country.

“Interestingly, the practice of open defecation in all the thirty six 36 States of the Federation and FCT has reduce from 34% in 2021 to 28% in 2022. Nigeria, nevertheless Nigeria still remains the number one country in the world that leads in open defecation since 2018 to 2022..”

He implored government and corporate bodies to continue to render more assistance the non-governmental organization’s like CUN both within and outside the country that will help ameliorate the sufferings of IDP and preventive measures that would have averted.

In his remark, Ebonyi Commissioner of Environment Richard appreciated the the clean up Nigeria for the diligent work that will take Nigeria to better height.

He implored government at all level not to relent in creation of awareness to general public to make our environment a better and a saver place for all.

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