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...
Adepoju
By Favour & Akinola Ajibade
Nigerians in need of fresh passport are expected to wait for six weeks, while those renewing theirs would wait for three weeks, the Acting Comptroller General, Nigerian Immigration Service( NIS), Mrs Caroline Adepoju has said.
She, however, advised applicants to start processing passport renewal six months before it is expired.
Adepoju, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily programme during the week, said the Service is trying to eliminate human interface in the process of passport application.
She said the agency hopes to achieve this feat, through automation of its activities, adding that the idea would help in reducing stress and delays, Nigerians experience, while applying for passports.
She said: "One thing Nigerians know about the Nigeria Immigration Service is the issuance of the Nigerian passport and we know the number of Nigerians that have applied for passports in the past two years have been very high and unprecedented,
Adding that: “ Be that as it may, the service is working hard to ensure that we meet the expectations of Nigerians. Number one, we are automating our passport application process; we are trying to ensure that we cut out human interface.
“Our applications are available online and we are trying to sensitise our applicants that they should go online for these applications to avoid patronising louts,” Adepoju said.
The Acting Comptroller General, however, reminded Nigerians that passport is a security document, hence the need by NIS to carry out security checks, address verification among others, before it is issued.
She advised Nigerians to always start passport renewal application six months before expiration, adding that fresh applicants don’t need to wait till they need the passport to start application.
“So, I try as much as possible to let people know that if you are renewing your passport, don’t wait until it is completely expired. You can start your application process when you have six months validity on it. Then for fresh applicants, they don’t have to wait until the very last moment when
they need the passport,” she said.
Adepoju said that for a fresh application, it takes six weeks to get the passport ready, while it takes three weeks for renewal.
She said considering the crowd at the passport offices nationwide, the Service is working to ensure that applicants for passport renewal don’t need to come to approach NIS physically, since their data have already been captured.
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