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The Anambra State Government says it has recovered a substantial number of oil wells belonging to the state that were previously attributed to Delta State.

The Managing Director of the Anambra State Solid Mineral Development Company and Chairman of Anambra State Petroleum Energy Resources Limited, Professor Charles Ofoegbu, disclosed this in Awka during a media chat with reporters.

Anambra was fully approved to the list of Nigeria’s oil-producing states in 2025 with an initial output of 3,000 barrels per day.

However, some oil wells belonging to the state, particularly around the Anambra River Basin, have been subject to boundary disputes with neighbouring Delta State.

Ofoegbu revealed that once the report of a verification exercise conducted by the Revenue Mobilisation Commission on the oil wells is approved, Anambra State will begin to receive additional revenue from the oil wells located on the Anambra maritime boundary with Delta State.

He said that the state government is working hand in hand with foreign investors to set up a modular refinery in Ossamala, Ogbaru Local Government Area.

“This modular refinery will produce petroleum and diesel to serve Anambra State and its neighbouring states, which will generate huge revenue for the state,” he said.

Ofoegbu maintained that the state government is working tirelessly to recover a substantial number of Anambra oil wells currently claimed by Imo, Delta, Rivers, and Enugu States due to boundary issues, which will, in turn, increase the state’s 13 per cent oil derivation from the Federal Government.

He revealed that his agency is currently opening a kaolin mining site at Ukpor in Nnewi South Local Government Area, which will also generate significant revenue for the state.

He further said the state government is working towards establishing a processing plant for bentonite at Achalagu, Nteje, while the raw materials are found in Umuchu and Ufuma, noting that bentonite, which is used in the oil industry, will also generate additional revenue for the state.

HacheNoire:
This should be disputed at the highest court!

Those oil wells belong to Delta by geolocation and boundaries drawn in 1914

This is outright theft and robbery.

The only oil in Anambra is palm oil. Anything outside that was stolen.

HacheNoire:
This should be disputed at the highest court!

Those oil wells belong to Delta by geolocation and boundaries drawn in 1914

This is outright theft and robbery.

The only oil known to mankind in Anambra is palm oil. Anything outside that was stolen.

IGBOPROMISE1:
But there’s a natural boundary between Anambra and Delta states, River Niger, so how can anyone begin to claim oyel wells east of the river belong to Delta state? Or am i missing something here?

No doubt the seeds for this injustice were sown in the Buhari gov’t, and i can’t say I’m surprised to be honest! That man and his Fulani hegemonic co-travellers despised the Igbo and relished any opportunity to cheat, ridicule or extra-judiciously murder us!

HacheNoire:
This should be disputed at the highest court!

Those oil wells belong to Delta by geolocation and boundaries drawn in 1914

This is outright theft and robbery.

The only oil known to mankind in Anambra is palm oil. Anything outside that was stolen.

aworatak:
https://thesun.ng/anambra-recovers-10-oil-wells-from-delta/?amp

HacheNoire:
This should be disputed at the highest court!

Those oil wells belong to Delta by geolocation and boundaries drawn in 1914

This is outright theft and robbery.

The only oil known to mankind in Anambra is palm oil. Anything outside that was stolen.

Apcshit:
I am sure they are deltas oil

Analyscam50:
10.
Needs to be celebrated like when a man finds his wife cheating, he calls for a celebration and sends her home after pounding her mercilessly

I was happy for my father the same way he sent my mother home

HacheNoire:
This should be disputed at the highest court!

Those oil wells belong to Delta by geolocation and boundaries drawn in 1914

This is outright theft and robbery.

The only oil known to mankind in Anambra is palm oil. Anything outside that was stolen.

Danchibez:
All these oil well located in my community and sister's community, Ogwu-ikpele and Ogwuanocha in Igbaru LGA, Anambra state. Tinubu has done well in this regard

HacheNoire:
This should be disputed at the highest court!

Those oil wells belong to Delta by geolocation and boundaries drawn in 1914

This is outright theft and robbery.

The only oil known to mankind in Anambra is palm oil. Anything outside that was stolen.

HacheNoire:
This should be disputed at the highest court!

Those oil wells belong to Delta by geolocation and boundaries drawn in 1914

This is outright theft and robbery.

The only oil known to mankind in Anambra is palm oil. Anything outside that was stolen.

insidelife22:
Oyel money

Sebe Igbo

Don cashout

HacheNoire:
This should be disputed at the highest court!

Those oil wells belong to Delta by geolocation and boundaries drawn in 1914

This is outright theft and robbery.

The only oil known to mankind in Anambra is palm oil. Anything outside that was stolen.

owobokiri:
Obasanjo was part of all these ilegalities that led to the handing over of boundary communities with oil Wells in the east to either her South South neighbours or to Kogi . Buhari and Co will only cement this. Tinubu is now preparing his national conference that slice off gas rich areas in Imo and give those to Rivers state.

Obasanjo engineered the notorious Justice Mamman Nassr boundary commission that basically sliced of hydrocarbon rich Eastern boundary communities. and "dashed" them to federal Nigeria accomplices in the South South. This was how some communities were divided amongst 3 states.

Today, Obasanjo is walking around pretending to be innocent, when he is part and parcel of the evil that befell Nigeria