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President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has requested the attorney general to provide a legal opinion on the renewal of Paragon’s Oil & Gas’ petroleum exploration licence (PEL), as concerns persist over the circumstances surrounding the oil block extension.<\/em><\/p>\n The oil block resurfaced in the news last year as one of the reasons the president fired former industries, mines and energy minister Natangwe Ithete.<\/p>\n Insiders say the licence was renewed for four years, despite a two-year limit for a third renewal…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah has requested the attorney general to provide a legal opinion on the renewal of Paragon’s Oil & Gas’ petroleum exploration licence (PEL), as concerns persist over the circumstances surrounding the oil block extension. The oil block resurfaced in the news last year as one of the reasons the president fired former industries, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":221943,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,11087,6393,12476,4706,724,20099,257,22929,6186,53497,41996,2450,9097,6399,254],"class_list":["post-221942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-controversial","tag-legal","tag-licence","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-nandindaitwah","tag-news","tag-oils","tag-orders","tag-paragon","tag-pel","tag-president","tag-renewal","tag-review","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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