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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The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) says 529 foreign-trained graduates failed the examination conducted recently in order to ascertain their level of fitness for the job.
The body, in a report, which was made available to the media,said the examination took place in Ibadan, Oyo state capital.
According to the report, out of 733 graduates, who sat for the examination at the University Teaching Hospital (UCH) between July 13th and 14th, 189 passed.
Commenting on the development, the MDCN Registrar, Dr Tajudeen Sanusi, said, “ 27.4 out of 100 per cent passed the exam, adding that the result is very poor. However, the assessment is necessary because the association cannot affort to put the health of Nigerians in jeopardy; it is better we have a few doctors than have doctors that will put the health of Nigerians in danger. All hands must be on deck to put this country in the right place.”
Continuing further, Sanusi said 515 medical gradates and 14 dental trained ones failed the examination.
The examination, Sanusi said, is compulsory and globally conducted.
“It’s a global practice that if you train in a particular jurisdiction and, you want to go to another jurisdiction, you subject yourself to an assessment exam. Even if you are a professor of medicine here and you’ve never practised in the United Kingdom or the United States, when you go there, you subject yourself to their assessment exam. So, it’s a global practice,” he said.
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