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...
Tragedy struck a community in Akwa-Ibom, South-South Nigeria recently, when a farmer deliberately killed his 26 years old son, Boniface Innocent over missing cassava.
The murdered and incidentally the father of the deceased, Mr Innocent Uko, is an indigene of is from Ebe Ikpe village in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State.
Uko, who justified his decision to kill his son, said he committed the offence on the ground that the deceased harvested his cassava without permission.
The Police Public Relations Officer, SP Odiko Macdon,told newsmen in Uyo that after killing his son,the man burnt the corpse and dumped the carcass in an abandoned pit toilet in his compound to conceal the act.
When confronted by the police,the father of the deceased who confessed to the crime said he committed the act due to his late son’s bad character and incessant harassment and embarrassment.
“One Chief Akpan Aniekan, the village head of Ebe Ikpe village in company of one Sylvester Akpan ‘m’, the village council chairman reported that one Innocent Uko ‘m’ of Ebe Ikpe village in Essien Udim Local Government Area, used machete and killed his son Boniface Innocent Uko, aged 26yrs, burnt the corpse and dumped the carcass of the deceased in an abandoned pit toilet in his compound to conceal the act.
“On the strength of the report, Police
Operatives of Essien Udim Divisional Headquarters visited the scene, the deceased burnt corpse deposited at the morgue. The suspect was arrested and has confessed killing the deceased, his son on the grounds of bad character and incessant harassment and embarrassment,” Macdon stated.
The Police also revealed that Operatives of Uruan Division, on intelligence report, arrested one Charley Edem John for stealing two seven year-old children.
John was said to have used his 10 year-old junior brother to lure his victims, who are in the same school with his brother out of their classes so he could steal them.
“The said suspect uses his own kid brother who is 10 years old of the same School to call and lure the children out of their class for him to steal. The two boys have been rescued and reunited with their parents”. The PPRO said.
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