Former President Muhammadu Buhari's government in a bid to curb oil theft introduced a pipeline surveillance contract which was awarded mainly to Tantita Security company owned by Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo; and another owned by a company linked to influential Niger Delta monarch the Olu of Warri (AC Vol 65 No 8 Oil broker James Ibori returns to Abuja stage)...
Former President Muhammadu Buhari's government in a bid to curb oil theft introduced a pipeline surveillance contract which was awarded mainly to Tantita Security company owned by Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo; and another owned by a company linked to influential Niger Delta monarch the Olu of Warri (AC Vol 65 No 8 Oil broker James Ibori returns to Abuja stage)...
Once a wanted man as a militant leader in the Delta Tompolo was forgiven by the Buhari government then awarded a contract that earns his company millions of dollars for protecting pipelines...
Tompolo has become a major financier of Tinubu's re-election campaign...
Youth activists in the Niger Delta have sent letters to Abuja insisting that the pipeline contract should be decentralised and that Tompolo from Delta State should not be operating in other oil-producing states such as Rivers Akwa Ibom and Bayelsa...
We also hear Former Niger Delta militant High Chief Government Ekpemupolo (Tompolo) who holds a multi-million-dollar contract to secure pipelines and is close relationship to both the current and former presidents has been assigned by Tinubu's camp to convince Jonathan not to run...
Confronting that threat Tinubu has intensified efforts to coopt former militants such as Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka ‘Tompolo' with inflated contracts to ensure pipeline security in the Delta...
Confronting that threat Tinubu has intensified efforts to coopt former militants such as Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka ‘Tompolo' with inflated contracts to ensure pipeline security in the Delta...
Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo militant leader in the Delta was being investigated in connection to a US$100 million security contract to guard pipelines awarded by President Goodluck Jonathan's government...
Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo militant leader in the Delta was being investigated in connection to a US$100 million security contract to guard pipelines awarded by President Goodluck Jonathan's government...
Militant leader Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo is threatening to make the oil-producing areas ungovernable if Minister for Niger Delta Godswill Akpabio fails to reconstitute the board of the NDDC...
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Niger Delta militant leader Government Ekpemupolo also known as Tompolo issued an ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari and Niger Delta minister Godswill Akpabio...
At the heart of Tompolo's demands are wide-ranging reports on corruption at the heart of the NDDC the fourth biggest state agency in Nigeria...
The following morning Akpabio met Tompolo lowering the temperature a few degrees...
Akpabio promised Tompolo that he would immediately start the process of constituting a substantive board for the NDDC...
With three weeks to run before Tompolo's next deadline Akpabio says he will fast-track the setting up of a new board...
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The focus of military operations was Government Ekpemupolo known as Tompolo who has still to present himself in court on money-laundering charges (AC Vol 57 No 4 The great militant chase)...
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Spotting an opportunity Sylva has been talking to activists close to militant leader Government Ekpemupolo known as Tompolo to strike a deal under which they would campaign for an APC victory in Bayelsa in return for positions in the amnesty organisation...
Once closely linked with the PDP having benefited from contracts under the Goodluck Jonathan government Tompolo takes a pragmatic view of the Buhari government...
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission seems to have forgotten all about its demands for the presumed boss of militant bosses Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) to appear in court in Lagos...
Ndigbara was linked to the bombing of the Bonny-Okrika pipeline three years ago which coincided with other blasts in the Delta while the army was hunting for militant boss Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) (AC Vol 57 No 5 The great militant chase)...
Most rebel leaders from the 2003-09 phase of the conflict – including Bibopre Ajube 'General Shoot-at-Sight' Victor Ebikabowei Ben 'Boyloaf' Government Tompolo and Ateke Tom – have turned on their old patron Goodluck Jonathan the former President and rallied around Buhari...
Most rebel leaders from the 2003-09 phase of the conflict – including Bibopre Ajube 'General Shoot-at-Sight' Victor Ebikabowei Ben 'Boyloaf' Government Tompolo and Ateke Tom – have turned on their old patron Goodluck Jonathan the former President and rallied around Buhari...