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...
As the Niger Delta's number one gangster Government Ekpemupolo lies low to avoid arrest and an appearance before a Lagos court community leaders from his power base in Gbaramatu near Chevron's facility in Warri Delta State are losing patience with the federal government's slowness to renew an amnesty with militant fighters (AC Vol 57 No 16 Juicier carrots heavier sticks)...
George's death changed the balance of power in the Delta greatly benefiting Government Ekpemupolo 'Tompolo' and traditional Ijaw leaders such as Chief Edwin Clark...
This year Osinbajo has visited the Niger Delta thrice: the first time to the Gbaramatu Kingdom in Delta State the base of militant leader Government Ekpemupolo aka 'Tompolo' who is thought to have been behind last year's upsurge in attacks on oil installations; then to Bayelsa State home base of defeated President Goodluck Jonathan; finally to oil capital Port Harcourt in Rivers State...