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 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), yesterday(Monday) said accused one Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma(Ms) of presenting faked 2023 UTME result.
The institution, in a statement, signed by its Acting Director, PAP, Dr Fabian Benjamin and made available to the media, noted that Mmesoma falsified a copy of the result slip of a candidate named" Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle" who scored 138 in the UTME conducted in 2021.
According to the statement, Mmesoma later revealed the rightful owner of the result she paraded before the Board, when she said that the QR code on the result slip belongs to the actual owner of the said result and not her own.
" The Board would like to reassure Nigerians that its system was neither tampered with nor compromised as the candidate simply falsified a copy of a result slip of a candidate named “Asimiyu Mariam Omobolanle”, who sat the UTME in 2021 and scored 138.
It advised the general public to scan the QR code on the result slip in order to know actual owner of the result before it was mutilated. Coupled with this is the fact the public should should endeavour to note the QR code attached to the UTME result of each candidate" It added.
Continuing further, the body noted that its stopped issuing Notification of Result slips after the 2021 UTME immediately it realised that candidates were falsifying the slips.
The Board further said that it has been issuing actual UTME RESULT Slips (not notification of results ) since 2022 complete with the photograph of each candidate.
"We at JAMB remains unperturbed by this unfortunate development as this is not the first time such fraudulent claims have been made. Nigerians should recall umerous occasions where the Board was sued for billions of naira only for the lawyers to later apologise profusely for their clients’ misadventure.
Prominent among these, the Board said, is the case of a candidate, John Chinedu Ifesinachi, who, in 2021, wrote a letter to JAMB, threatening to sue for N2b damages, only for him and his counsel to tender unreserved apology when the candidate eventually confessed his crime in the face of incontrovertible facts in an open investigation observed by several national public institutions including the Public Complaints Commission, National Human Rights Commission, Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Council, Servicom and media houses.
The Board maintains that it is not in any way opposing public scrutiny and that its ready to participate in open public session involving the agencies listed above as well as relevant security agencies where the candidate , parent’s guardian and her legal team will be present.
JAMB, in line with its established procedures has however withdrawn 2023 UMTE result of Ms. Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma and further bar her from sitting its examination in the next three years.
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