Tag: Tompolo
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Amnesty boss meets Ateke Tom, Tompolo, Boyloaf, two other ex-militant leaders
The Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) Col. Milland Dixon Dikio (retd) has held a crucial meeting with five prominent former militant leaders in the Niger Delta famously referred to as the Big Five. It was gathered that the former five commanders of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) who met…
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Photo: Ex-militant, Tompolo makes first public appearance after six years
Former militant leader Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo has made his first public appearance after hiding from security agencies for six years. Tompolo, who led the disbanded Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), went underground immediately President Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in in 2015, as the Federal Government deployed troops to fish him out.…
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Tompolo floors FG, wins N34bn fraud case against firm
The Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed the entire 40 counts bordering on alleged N34bn fraud filed by the Federal Government against Global West Vessel Specialist Limited, a company linked to a former Niger Delta militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. The other defendants in the case were a former Director-General of the…
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Naval officer arrested for allegedly stealing Tompolo’s transformers
A personnel of the Nigerian Navy, Usman Shaibu, has been arrested by the Delta State Police Command for allegedly stealing multi-billion naira properties belonging to a former Niger Delta militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. Lance Corporal Usman Shaibu was arrested alongside two other suspects identified as Okugbe Lucky and Chime Chukwuka while allegedly…
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Tompolo, a true patriot of the Niger Delta – Muoboghare
A former Delta State Commissioner for Basic and Primary School Education, Professor Patrick Muoboghare has described ex-militant commander of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo as a true patriot of the Niger Delta region. Prof. Muoboghare made the remarks at a Colloquium/Book Presentation in honour of…
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Tompolo: Appeal Court backs seizure of properties by EFCC
The Court of Appeal sitting in Lagos on Thursday dismissed an appeal filed by Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, seeking to set aside the decision of the Federal High Court, Lagos which empowered the EFCC to seize all the properties belonging to the ex-militant. Justice I. N. Buba of the Federal High Court, Lagos, had on…
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Appeal Court okays bench warrant against Tompolo
The Court of Appeal in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed the appeal brought by Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo against the EFCC over the Bench Warrant issued against him by Justice Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos. TheNewsGuru.com recalls that the EFCC had on December 15,2015 instituted a Criminal Charge against Tompolo and nine others.…
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N46bn fraud: Court dismisses Tompolo’s suit to stop trial
A Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday dismissed the suit filed Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tomopolo, challenging a criminal charge preferred against him by the Federal Government. Tompolo, through his lawyer, Ebun Olu-Adegboruwa, had approached the court seeking nullification of Section 221 and 306 of Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015, under which he…
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Exclusive: Osinbajo secretly meets Tompolo other N/Delta agitators
The presidency’s fact-finding team, headed by Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo , yesterday had a closed door meeting with ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo and other Niger Delta agitators. The fact finding team was set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to visit the troubled Niger Delta region and obtain first-hand information from the people in…
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Tompolo’s kinsmen excited as Osinbajo set to visit N/Delta today
KINSMEN of ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, in Gbaramatu Kingdom, Warri South-West Local Government Area, Delta State, are in jubilant mood for today’s visit of the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, hoping that the Federal Government would demilitarize the area and halt perceived indiscriminate arrests of the people after the outing. “The Benenibowei of…