Tag: Pipeline surveillance

NNPCL spends ₦17.5tr on pipeline, fuel security in 2024

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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) paid a total of ₦7.1 trillion as subsidy for premium motor spirit (PMS) in 2024, this sum represents a 47.9% increase from ₦4.8 trillion recorded in 2023. This is despite the government’s announcement of subsidy removal in 2023. The company explained that the amount, which it termed ‘energy security expense’ arises when there is differential between the exchange rate used to freeze the premium motor spirit ex-coastal price and the prevailing rate at the point of import settlement. According to the report, government…

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N/Delta stakeholders kick against plan to replace Presidential Amnesty Programme with pipeline surveillance contract

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Some Niger-Delta stakeholders have described as “unreasonable” and “vexatious” the plan by the Federal Government to substitute the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP) with the crude oil pipeline contract recently awarded to some persons in the region. It warned that the plan will trigger another round of agitation and frustrate the campaign against oil theft in the region. According to the stakeholders, made up of traditional rulers, elders, women groups, youth groups, former militant leaders and stakeholders from across the nine states of the Niger-Delta region, the plan of the federal…

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NNPC Pipelines Contract: Niger-Delta militants at war

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…Asari Dokubo, others oppose Tompolo The dust raised by the NNPCL N4.5 billion annual pipeline surveillance contract awarded to former leader of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta, (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, may not have settled down but it has effectively torn the militants in the oil rich region apart. Obviously rattled by how the Federal Government sensationally mentioned Tompolo as the sole supervisor of the pipeline security deal, another leading Niger Delta freedom fighter, Alhaji Asari Dokubo, sounding crestfallen and certainly dejected wondered why his comrade…

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“Reverse Tompolo’s N4.5bn pipeline contract or wait for anarchy” – Rita Lori to FG

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Rights activist and veteran broadcaster, Chief (Mrs.) Rita-Lori Ogbebor, has called for the withdrawal of the pipeline contract awarded to the leader of Movement for the Emancipation of Niger-Delta (MEND), Government Ekpemupolo, otherwise known as Tompolo. Lori, who spoke at a press briefing in Abuja on Monday, while lamenting the spate of anarchy in the region, decried the lukewarm attitude of the Federal Government over the proliferation of ammunition across the country, especially in the Niger-Delta region. She insisted that the withdrawal of the pipeline contract awarded to Tompolo will…

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N48bn NNPC Pipeline Surveillance Contract: A’Ibom youths warn Tompolo, others against securing oil pipelines in their area

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Youths of Ibeno, an oil and gas-rich community in Akwa-Ibom State, have warned ex-militant warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a. ‘Tompolo’, and other militants to stay in their territory in the name of protecting pipelines. Speaking under the aegis of the Ibeno Men-Clue Development Association, the youths expressed dismay over the award of N48 billion pipeline surveillance contracts to Tompolo by the federal government, adding that as an oil-producing local government area that host ExxonMobil, they do not need ex-militants to safeguard oil facilities that pass through their territory. They maintained that…

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Pipelines Surveillance: Ex-militants threaten mass attacks on oil installations over N48bn NNPC contract

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Some agitators, under the aegis of ‘Akwa-Ibom Ex-Militants Forum’ have asked the Federal Government to revoke the N48 billion pipeline surveillance contract awarded to the ex-militant warlord, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo. In a petition addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, copied to security agencies and made available to newsmen, the agitators claimed that they were undermined by the Federal Government regarding pipelines that pass through Akwa-Ibom State. They threatened to resume hostilities by attacking oil installations in the state if their demands are not met in seven days beginning from Sunday,…

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Pipeline Surveillance: Tension, as N’Delta youths agitating for a slice of Tompolo’s contract

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The new pipeline surveillance contract given by the NNPC Limited to the ex-Niger-Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, has triggered a crisis, with Ijaw youths agitating for a slice of the contract. Ekpemupolo was the former commander of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, (MEND). However, the Ijaw National Congress (INC) has moved to douse the tension by inaugurating a committee to interface with the angry youths. The INC President, Prof. Benjamin Okaba, performed the inauguration of the five-member committee at the Ijaw House, Yenagoa,…

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