Tag: Tompolo
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Tompolo is new Minister, NNPC GMD, Head Navy, DSS and Custom – By Mideno Bayagbon
100 days after General Muhammadu Buhari became president, Femi Adesina, his Special Adviser on media gleefully announced that a new Sheriff was in town. He told the world that corruption had nose-dived and taken a flight on the assumed body language of the President. Almost seven years and seven months later, with corruption more emboldened…
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Nigerian Navy sets ablaze, arrested illegal oil-bunkering vessel
Men of the Nigerian Navy in Delta State has set ablaze an illegal oil bunkering vessel with stolen crude oil arrested by operatives of the newly-contracted private oil pipeline surveillance team, Tantita Security Services, on Monday. operatives of the Nigerian Navy set the ill-fated vessel on fire on Warri River at about 3pm following the…
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Tompolo “obtains” comprehensive list of security officials behind Nigeria’s oil theft
Ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, whose contract is to provide intelligence that could stop oil theft, has obtained a comprehensive list of security officials behind oil theft in Nigeria. He strongly accused the security agencies of being behind the stealing of Nigeria’s crude oil. The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission put the…
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Olu of Warri distances self from pipeline surveillance contract
The paramount ruler of the Kingdom of Warri, and the 21st Olu of Warri, Ogiame Atuwatse III, has said he does not own Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited. Recall that Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited is one of the three companies recently awarded the pipeline surveillance contract by Nigeria National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited. The monarch denied…
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Ijaw congress inaugurates committee on pipeline surveillance contract
The Ijaw National Congress (INC) on Friday inaugurated a committee to interface with some angry youth groups over the pipeline surveillance contract re-awarded to Chief Government Ekpemupolo. Newsmen reports that Ekpemupolo, an ex-militant leader is a former commander of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), also known as Tompolo.
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Pipeline Security: IYC seeks Nigerians support for Tompolo
The Ijaw Youth Council (IYC) has called for total support of Nigerians to Chief Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo on the contract to secure pipelines in the Niger Delta region. Mr Omaghomi OluDerimon, Secretary, Western Zone of the IYC, made the call while speaking with newsmen in Calabar on Sunday. He said the need for support…
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NDDC Board: Tompolo speaks after expiration of seven-day ultimatum, consultative meeting with Akpabio, others
Ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo), has “reluctantly” accepted the outcome of the consultative meeting between stakeholders of the Niger Delta and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that this is coming hours to the expiration of a seven-day ultimatum issued by the Niger Delta warlord, Tompolo, last Sunday.…
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Tompolo’s ultimatum: Akpabio storms Delta, pledges to fast track NDDC board inauguration
Niger Delta Affairs Minister Godswill Akpabio on Thursday said the process of constituting a substantive Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) board will be fast-tracked. He spoke after an emergency consultative visit to Oporoza, headquarters of Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri Southwest of Delta State. TheNewsGuru.com, TNG reports that the minister’s visit was at the instance of…
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JUST IN: Tompolo issues 7-day ultimatum to FG to inaugurate NDDC board
Former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Chief Government Ekpemupolo has issued a seven-day ultimatum to the federal government to constitute a substantive board for the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo in a statement on Sunday, described the appointment of a sole administrator to…
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Okowa congratulates former militant leader Tompolo at 50
Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has congratulated a Niger Delta activist and ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, on the occasion of 50th birthday. Okowa, in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, on Monday in Asaba, said that Ekpemupolo remained an illustrious son of Niger Delta, who had…