Itsekiri Tantita’s Workers Disown Video Of Alleged Protest Against Tompolo
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Itsekiri people working with the Tantita Security Services Limited yesterday debunked a viral video where some persons were seen protesting against High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, More...
Tompolo Shuns Tinubu’s Demand For Low Keyed Birthday Ceremony, Dominates Newspaper Front Pages
LAGOS MARCH 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Tompolo Disregards Tinubu’s Request for a Low-Key Birthday, Secures Front Page Coverage in Newspapers In an unexpected move, Tompolo, the former militant leader, has chosen to disregard More...
Delta Online Publishers Honour Tompolo For The Liberation Of Niger Delta
LAGOS MARCH 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Delta Online Publishers Forum (DOPF) has inducted High Chief Government Ekpomupolo aka Tompolo into the DOPF Niger Delta Media Hall of Fame. The official induction was performed More...
Group Reacts As Tinubu Renews Tompolo’s Surveillance Contract
LAGOS OCTOBER 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has renewed the oil pipeline surveillance contract to Tantita Security Company owned by Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, More...
Anxiety In Niger Delta As Urhobo, Isoko Combat Tompolo Over Oil Pipeline Contract
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-There may be serious bloodbath ahead in the creeks of the Niger Delta as more groups from the oil-rich region on Sunday called on President Bola Tinubu to look into the awarding More...
Oil Pipelines Surveillance Contract: Dokubo Scrambling To Grab Tompolo’s Lunch
LAGOS JULY 17TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Nigeria’s Niger Delta crisis continues to threaten Africa’s biggest economy. Long after violent militant groups ceased fire after being offered amnesty in 2009 in exchange for More...
Tompolo, Tantita And Impact Of Community Security Surveillance
By Jerome-Mario Chijioke Utomi LAGOS NOVEBER 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There is no gain any more saying that the nation Nigeria is currently riddled with high rate of insecurity which includes but not limited to banditry, More...
N’Delta: Stolen Oil, The Military And Man Named Government
LAGOS OCTOBER 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A network of illegal oil pipelines being unearthed in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region has revealed the extent of oil theft in the country, astounding even the most cynical about More...
War Looms In N’Delta As Aggrieved Dokubo Opposes Tompolo’s N4.5bn Pipeline Contract
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The aggrieved Dokubo, in a viral video, said it smacked of greed for Tompolo to be in charge of pipeline protection for all the ethnic groups in the Niger Delta. Dokubo wondered More...
Disagreement Rocks Tompolo’s N48bn Pipeline Surveillance Contract
LAGOS AUGUST 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-All is not well among Niger Delta militants following the recent award of a N48 billion per year (N4b per month) pipeline surveillance contract to ex-warlord, Chief Government Ekpemupolo More...
N4bn Monthly Pipeline Surveillance Contract To Tompolo: A Peanut In The Circumstance
LAGOS AUGUST 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)- I have read with utmost dismay the resentment of the Amalgamated Arewa Youth Group over the N4bn monthly pipeline surveillance contract awarded to Government Ekpemupolo, More...
Protesting Arewa Youths Besiege NNPC, Demand Termination of Tompolo’s Alleged N4bn Pipeline Contract
LAGOS AUGUST 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Protesters, under the auspices of Amalgamated Arewa Youth Groups, yesterday, stormed headquarters of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, demanding termination More...
Delta 2023: Reactions Trail Ibori’s Visit To Tompolo In The Creek
LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Governor of Delta State, James Ibori, visited ex-Niger-Delta warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, at the riverside Oporoza community, traditional headquarters More...
NDDC Board: Militants Accuse Akpabio of Appeasing Tompolo With $1m To Backdown
LAGOS OCTOBER 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Militant groups across the Niger Delta region have accused the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Obot Akpabio of bribing Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo with More...
Buhari Perfects Plot Of PDP Collapse In Delta, Targets Ibori, Tompolo For Defection
LAGOS JUNE 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari’s All Progressives Congress (APC) is allegedly locked in a backstage scheme to ignite political crisis in Delta State, one of the core big oil and gas More...
Tompolo Makes U-Turn, Grudgingly Withdraws His 7 Days Ultimatum
LAGOS JUNE 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-EX-MILTANT leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, has grudgingly withdrawn his seven-day ultimatum to upset oil and gas facilities in Niger Delta region if the board of Niger More...
Tompolo Shuns Akpabio As N’Delta Leaders Insist On Inauguration Of NDDC Board
LAGOS JUNE 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-With the seven days ultimatum deadline coming to an end in two days, former leader of the Niger Delta agitators Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo popularly known as Tompolo, refused to More...
Tompolo Leads Thousands Of Ijaw Indigenes For The Spiritual Cleansing Of N’Delta
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Thousands of Ijaw people from all over Delta, Bayelsa, Edo and Ondo states converged on Oporoza town, the ancestral headquarters of Gbaramotu Kingdom in the Warri South Local Government More...
Lagos Court Dismisses N34bn Fraud Case Against Tompolo’s Company
LAGOS JULY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed the entire 40 counts bordering on alleged N34bn fraud filed by the Federal Government against Global West Vessel Specialist Limited, a More...
Engr. Thomas Weds Evelyn in Okpe Olomu Kingdom On Friday
Engr. Thomas Umokoro and his wife Evelyn LAGOS MARCH 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-All roads lead to James Agerehor’s family compound in Okpe-Olomu community, Ughelli South LGA, Delta State as Engr. Thomas Umukoro ( More...
Three Naval Officers, Dismissed, Sentenced To Jail For ‘Stealing’ Tompolo’s Property
LAGOS DECEMBER 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigeria Navy has dismissed three junior officers who stole items belonging to former ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo, during an operation at More...
Naval Personnel, Two Others Nabbed For Stealing Tompolo’s Property Worth N3bn
Tompolo LAGOS JULY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Three naval personnel attached to the Nigerian Navy ship, NNS DELTA, have been arrested by the police for allegedly stealing properties worth N3 billion belonging to a former More...
Reformed N’Delta Avengers Vows To ‘Smoke Out’ Wanted Ex-Militant Warlord, Tompolo
LAGOS NOVEMBER 7TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers, (RNDA) in coalition with nine other militant groups has vowed that they will soon ‘smoke out’ wanted former leader of the Movement for the More...
Pandemonium as Irate Ijaw Youths Clash In Tompolo’s Birthday
People escaping from the scene of the clash LAGOS APRIL 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-There was pandemonium at the premises of the celebration of the birthday bash of ex-militant leader, High Chief Oweizide Government Ekpemupolo More...
N’Delta: Buhari Orders Army To Return ‘Egbesu Spiritual’ Sword
LAGOS FEBRUARY 23RD (URHOBOTODAY)-President Muhammadu Buhari has ordered the immediate return of the Egbesu golden sword seized by the Nigerian Army last year to Gbaramatu Kingdom in Warri South Local Government More...