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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...

Accord welcomes 1000 new members, relies on God for 2023 polls





By Akinola Ajibade



The Accord Party has received 1000 new members into its fold, just as it relies on God to determine the outcome of February 26th Presidential election. They members are decampees from the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC).
The Party's Presidential Candidate, Prof  Christopher Imumolen, said this in Lagos, during the innuguration of its Campaign Council/Handover and Presentation of  Certificate of Return to Candidates For the Elections.
According to him,  Nigeria recorded victories in past elections through her citizens, not financial inducements politicians.
Citing President Muhammad Buhari and his predecessor, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Imumolen noted that the duo won elections through the  supports of Nigerians, who voted them into office, not money..
Said he: " God was the only determinant in their victories and He is going to do the same thing in 2023 for Nigeria." he said.
Continuing further, Imumolen assured members of five million votes  for its Lagos governorship candidate, Hakeem Dickson, adding that he is going to win presidential election in February 
Adding that: "In Nigeria, God plays His role, it is not highest spenders that have been voted as presidents of the country from available record. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo became president when he came out of prisons and he did not have money even in his account then.
"Then came President Yar'Adua, he too did not have money, he was not a money bag and followed by President Goodluck Jonathan. If it were to be on account of financial muzzle, our current president, Muhammadu Buhari wouldn't have become president," he said.
He  lamented the poor state of the country, saying that the citizens were suffering as the level of poverty kept increasing.
Imumolen said the party was constantly receiving decampees from both APC and the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), stressing that he would  coming back to Lagos to 
campaign for the party's governorship candidate.
"I am coming back next month  to flag off  campaign in Lagos. We shall receive thousands of decampees into the party. We have not won elections, we are already awarding scholarship, and we are giving jobs to people," he said.
He, therefore, tasked members to keep on mobilising support for the party all the candidates ahead of the poll, while also urging them to go and collect their Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) as, according to him, the coming poll would be transparent and credible and, there was need for voters to come to their polling booths to exercise their franchise.
Also, the party's guber candidate, Mr. Dickson, assured that his administration, if voted into office, would offer scholarship and loans to students in need, adding that his administration would also abolish cut- off marks for students seeking admission into higher institutions.
One of the decampees, Jeremiah, who was a former member of APC in Ward G in Alimosho area of the state, said that education is key because nobody can grow without having it.

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