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...
By Akinola Ajibade
No fewer than twenty seven herdsmen have been killed in an airstrike in Doma Local Area of Nasarawa State, the State's Deputy Supretendent of Police ( DSP)Ramhan Nansel has confirmed.
Nansel, who is also the Command’s spokesman, gave this figure in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN).
While conducting the interview on Thursday in Lafia, Nansel said that preliminary investigation revealed that the pastoralists had on Tuesday gone to Benue State to pay fines for the release of cattle impounded by the Benue State Livestock Guards implementing the State’s Anti-Open Grazing and Ranching Law.
According to him, something like a drone or an aircraft hovered in the air and shelled the herdsmen on Tuesday day, when they were loading some of the cows into vehicles in a vehicle in Kwatiri village, a border community between Benue and Nasarawa.
Nansel further said that the Commissioner of Police, Maiyaki Mohammed-Baba, had visited the scene of the incident and also attended the burial of the deceased alongside the State Deputy Governor, Dr. Emmanuel Akabe, and some traditional rulers. .
Investigation, he said, was ongoing to unravel those behind the act, adding that the command had deployed policemen to the area to prevent the breakdown of law and order.
Similarly, GPovernor Abdullahi Sule of Nasarawa State had since condemned the dastardly act, saying he was in touch with his Benue State counterpart, Samuel Ortom, over the matter as security agencies continued their investigations.
Sule called on the people to remain calm and not take laws into their own hands.
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria has also condemned the alleged killing and called for full investigation to unravel those behind the attack.
MACBAN, in a statement made available to the NAN by its National Public Relations Officer, Muhammad Nura, said: “This is the third time we are experiencing such happenings.”
He said apart from the victims, livestock were also killed in the attack.
Nura said: “MACBAN describes the action as not only condemnable but a war crime under the Geneva Convention that prohibits the wanton killing of livestock.
“We call on the authorities to investigate this terror, punish the culprits and to be sure that incidents like this will not happen again.”
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