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LAGOS JUNE 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-EX-MILTANT leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, has grudgingly withdrawn his seven-day ultimatum to upset oil and gas facilities in Niger Delta region if the board of Niger More...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...
Renewed Delta Hostilities: Acting The Script of Kaiama Declaration
By Its? Harvey ?se R?d?n LAGOS JUNE 21ST (URHOBOTODAY)-The Niger Delta region has returned to international headlines as the hotbed of violence less than one year that power has changed hands in Abuja. The bad More...
Tompolo Contacts Delta Deputy Gov, Says He’s Being Tempted To Return To Militancy
Tompolo LAGOS MAY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), who is currently been hunted by security agents over allegations of fraud leveled against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes More...
Military Raid Tompolo’s Village as N’Delta Avengers Continue with Destruction of Pipeline Installations
Tompolo LAGOS MAY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The search for members of the Niger Delta Avengers (NDA) responsible for the upsurge in vandalism of oil and gas installations has gone further awry as members of the Joint Military More...
You are the Cause of My Problem with Buhari, Tompolo Accuses Ayiri Emami
Tompolo and Ayiri LAGOS MAY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Government Ekpemupolo, the Niger Delta militant declared wanted by the Nigerian authorities, has attributed his problems with the current government to Ayiri Emami, More...
N’Delta Avengers to Establish N‘Delta Nation, Threaten to Blow Northerners Oil Wells Within 7 Days
LAGOS MAY 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The new Niger Delta Militant group, Niger Delta Avengers has revealed that its intention is to establish a sovereign Niger Delta State. The group exposed all Northerners owning ninety More...
EFCC Arrests Lawyer to Jonathan’s Cousin, Tompolo
LAGOS MAY 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested activist and Lagos-based lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, for an alleged N61m Lekki property scam. Adegboruwa is the counsel More...
Dismiss Tompolo Request to Stop Trial, Federal Government Tells Court
Tompolo LAGOS MAY 5TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Federal Government of Nigeria has asked the Federal High Court, Lagos, to dismiss the case filed by Chief Government Ekpemupolo (alias Tompolo) for being an abuse of process More...
Tompolo: How Delta Govt Splashes N100m to Halt Ijaw Youths Protests During Osinbajo’s Visit
Tompolo LAGOS APRIL 26TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Fresh facts have emerged why the people of the state especially the Ijaws in the riverine communities of Delta State did not disrupt the reception of Nigeria’s Vice President, More...
Tompolo Drags FG to Court, Wants Trial Halted
Tompolo LAGOS APRIL 11TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former militant leader declared wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has sued the Nigerian government seeking an end to his trial for alleged fraud. Government More...
Tompolo’s Case Postponed as Ex-Militant Avoids Arrest
By Conor Gaffey March 24th (urhobotoday0-A militant of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) poses with a heavy machine-gun in the Niger Delta, Nigeria, September 17, 2008. A former MEND More...