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...
Tompolo Goes Spiritual, Says Jehovah God’ll Save Him From EFCC
Tompolo LAGOS FEBRUARY 24TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, says “Jehovah God” will make him come out of his “ongoing trial” stronger. The Economic and Financial Crimes More...
If You Destroy Tompolo, Many Tompolos ‘ll Arise –N’Delta Groups Warn FG
Tompolo LAGOS FEBRUARY 22ND (URHOBOTODAY)-Three non-governmental organizations based in the Niger-Delta have advised the Federal Government to thread softly as regards the prosecution of former General Officer Commanding, More...
Court Grants EFCC Nod to Seize Tompolo’s Assets
LAGOS FEBRYARY 19TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos, has given the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) nod to seize all but one of the properties belonging to Government Ekpemupolo, More...
Is Delta State Govt Shielding Tompolo From Prosecution?
Tompolo LAGOS FEBRUARY 18TH (URHOBOTODAY0-As the EFCC seeks permission to consolidate moves to smoke out Chief Oweizide Government Ekpemupolo aka Tompolo by confiscating his properties, Huhuonline.com can disclose More...
Tompolo Asks Court to Vacate Arrest Warrant Placed on Him
Tompolo LAGOS FEBRUARY 1ST 9URHOBOTODAY)-Former General Officer Commanding, GOC, of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, Chief Government Ekpumupolo, otherwise known as Tompolo has asked Justice More...
I’m Ready to Face EFCC-Tompolo
Tompolo LAGOS JANUARY 28TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo) a former militant leader, has said that he is ready to face the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to prove his innocence. Tompolo, More...
Why Ex-N’Delta Warlord, Tompolo Rejects EFCC Invitation
Tompolo LAGOS DECEMBER 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Former Niger-Delta militant commander, High Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, has debunked media reports that he failed to respond to an invitation More...
Navy Impounds Tompolo’s Ship as Powerful Forces Gang Up against Using it for Training Cadets
Tompolo and the impounded vessel LAGOS OCTOBER 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Controversy is at the moment brewing over the use of the Royal Norwegian military vessel bought by Global West Specialist Vessel Limited to train More...
Tension in Delta Waterways as Tompolo ‘Stops’ Okowa’s Aide from Executing Contract Work at EPZ Site
Tompolo LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (URHOBOTODAY) – Fresh tension is mounting in the Delta Waterways as ex-militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo (aka Tompolo), Saturday, allegedly deployed some ex-militants to stop More...
EFCC Freezes Account Of Ex-N’Delta Militant Leader, Tompolo’s Companies
Tompolo LAGOS SEPTEMBER 6TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A report on The Nation newspapers reveals that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) have frozen two companies reportedly owned by ex-Niger Delta militant More...
Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, OPC to Sue Federal Government over Contract Payment
LAGOS AUGUST 18TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Factional leaders of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC), Dr. Frederick Fasehun and Otunba Gani Adams, as well as other beneficiaries of the controversial Pipeline Security and Surveillance More...
How Ex-NIMASA Boss, Delta Deputy Gov, Tompolo Share N3bn Ijaw Community Fund
Former Director General of NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi LAGOS AUGUST 1ST (URHOBOTODAY)-Revelation has emerged on how former Director General of NIMASA, Patrick Akpobolokemi, Ex-militant leader, Chief Government More...
Norwgian Govt Regrets Selling Warships to Ex-N’Delta Warlord, Tompolo
Tompolo LAGOS MAY 4TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Norwegian Defence Chief, Haakon Bruun-Hansen, an admiral, has apologised to the country’s lawmakers for the sale of a fleet of a decommissioned naval battleships and combats More...
Tompolo, Dokubo, Gani Adams Begin Execution of N9.3b Oil Pipelines Surveillance Contracts
LAGOS APRIL 27TH (URHOBOTODAY)-Barring any last-minute change, former militants and self determination groups will today begin the execution of the N9.3b waterways and oil pipelines contracts. A memo from the More...
After Jonathan’s Defeat, What Next for Niger-Delta Militants?
LAGOS APRIL 3RD (URHOBOTODAY) – The militant leaders who once wrought havoc in the Niger Delta oil industry have suddenly gone quiet following the defeat of Nigeria’s incumbent president, Goodluck Jonathan, More...
Asari, Tompolo, Gani Adams Grab N5.6b New Oil Contract
LAGOS MARCH 13TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has announced the renewal and extension of the pipeline protection contract it awarded to some ex-militants in 2011, which expired More...
Ex-Militant Leaders Make ‘U’ Turn on War Treats, Beg Nigerians To Vote For Jonathan
Tompolo and Asari Dokubo LAGOS FEBRUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-In a remarkable twist, ex-militant leaders who had threatened to plunge a war in the country if President Goodluck Jonathan is not re-elected come May 29, More...
Don’t Threaten Danjuma, ACF Warns Tompolo, Dokubo
Tompolo and Dokubo LAGOS FEBRUARY 3RD (URHOBOTODAY)-The northern socio-political organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, has warned Niger Delta ex-militants not to threaten a former Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Theophilus More...
Danjuma’s Call for Arrest of Tompolo, Asari, is Call for Arrest of N’Deltans-Onuesoke
Chief Sunny Onuesoke LAGOS JANUARY 30TH (URHOBOTODAY)-The President General of Urhobo Nation for Okowa 2015, Chief Sunny Onuesoke has condemned in totality and earnest the call by Gen Thoephilus Danjuma for the More...
Danjuma Slams Dokubo, Tompolo, Others over War Threat, Calls for Their Arrest
Theophilus Danjuma ……Says miscreant cannot hold Nigeria to ransom LAGOS JANUARY 29TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd.), has called for the arrest of an ex-Niger More...
N’Delta Ex-Militants Re-Group, Threaten War If Jonathan Looses
Niger Delta Ex-Militants LAGOS JANUARY 25TH (URHOBOTODAY)-A group of ex-militants in the Niger Delta, led by Government Ekpemopulo (aka Tompolo), on Friday met in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa State capital, and threatened More...