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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...

IGP wades into Anambra's Police Brutality, promises to punish offenders





IGP Alkali Baba

The Inspector-General of Police(IGP),  Usman Alkali Baba has set up a panel to investigate cases bordering on alledged  unprofessionalism, high-handedness and extra judicial killings levelled against some officers attached to the Zone 13 Command, Ukpo-Dunnukola and the Anambra State Police Command respectively.
Bala in a statement with REF No.CZ.5300/FPRD/ FHQ/ABJ/ VOL.5/24 titled: Anambra Alleged Killings: IGP set up panel- orders 
descreet investigations into allegations and signed by the Force Public Relations Officer, CSP Olumuyiwa Adejobi  said that a special investigation panel  under the IGP Monitoring and Mentoring Unit has been set up to unravel those behind the alleged wanton killings in the state and further mete out punishments to them. The panel was given two weeks to dig into the matters, with a view to unravel the veracity of the allegations levelled against some officers in the Nigeria Police Force (NPF).
The statement further quoted Bala as saying that: "  The police has commened investigations into the  weighty allegations of murders, intimidation, kidnapping and other criminal allegations levelled against the affected officers.
According to the statement, officers in charge- of- charge of the Rapid Response Squard( RSS), CSP Patrick Agbazue, Anambra State Command, SP Nwode Nkeiruka and the Police Public Relations(PPRA) of the Zone 13 Headquarters Ukpo-Dunukofia and Inspector Harrison Akama attached to RRS were on the directives of the IGP taken to Louis Edet for commencement of investigations into the allegations levelled against them.
The force, IGP said, would not leave any stone unturned in the matter, stressing that the officers would be rightly sanction, once they were found culpable in the charges made against them.
Recall that the officers were on Friday February 17th this year, driven to the Police Headquarters in order to start the investigation as soon as possible.



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