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...
N’Delta: Boroh, Entourage Storm Tompolo’s Community Ahead of Vice President’s Visit
LAGOS JANUARY 16TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In his efforts to prepare for the Vice President visit to Niger Delta, the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta Affairs and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, More...
Nigeria Vice President, Osinbajo to Lead FG Fact-Finding Team to N’Delta Areas
Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osibanjo LAGOS JANUARY 10TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Presidency has constituted a fact-finding team, headed by the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, to traverse the beleaguered area More...
Niger Delta Militants Deny Saharareporters Report on Sponsorship of Avengers
LAGOS AUGUST 8TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Spokesperson of the Niger Delta militant group which reportedly named the sponsors of Niger Delta Avengers has denied issuing such press release. Cynthia Whyte , spokesperson More...
Nigeria Army Bows to Pressure, Releases Detained Tompolo’s Associates
LAGOS JULY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The 3rd Battalion of the Nigerian Army, Effurun on Thursday night bowed to pressure from groups and ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias “Tomopolo” with the release More...
MEND Writes Buhari, Names Diette-Spiff, Odein Ajumogobia, Tomplolo, Others in Dialogue Team
Ajumogobia LAGOS JULY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) on Sunday wrote President Muhammadu Buhari, submitting the final list of its dialogue group, Aaron Team 2. In More...
Tompolo Tops List of EFCC Seven Most Wanted Persons
Tompolo LAGOS JULY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released information of its seven most wanted people with Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo listed as number one. They More...
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