Tag: Tompolo

Tompolo donates ₦10bn to Delta State Security Trust Fund

Aminu Imam
Tompolo donates

Former militant leader and Niger Delta activist, Chief Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, has donated ₦10 billion to the Delta State Security Trust Fund. The donation marks his first public appearance at a government event in over 15 years – a historic return that underscores his renewed commitment to peace, stability, and security development in Delta State. The high-profile event, held yesterday at Government House, Asaba, brought together captains of industry, security chiefs, and top government officials, including Group Chairman of Access Holdings Plc, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, who chaired the…

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“Only Tinubu can revive Nigeria” – Tompolo

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Tompolo pledges

…Pledges 10m votes for President The Chairman of Tantita Security Services, Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a Tompolo, yesterday threw his weight behind President Bola Tinubu, insisting that he remains the only visionary leader who can revamp the nation’s ailing economy. Speaking through the Technical Adviser to the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Edgar Biu, at a press briefing organised by the PBAT Door-2-Door Movement in Abuja to mark Democracy Day, Tompolo said the President has proven through his reforms that he has the vision and the grit to finish what he started. “We…

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Bayelsa: Tompolos private outfit arrests ocean-going vessel conveying stolen crude

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Tantita Security Services Limited (TSSL), a private security firm owned by Government Tompolo Ekpemupolo, says it has arrested an ocean-going vessel conveying thousands of metric tonnes of stolen crude oil off-shore Bayelsa State. The vessel, named: ‘MT Kally’, was said to be apprehended in a joint operation by the officials of TSSL and operatives of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), on Friday night. According to Tantita, the engineer and captain of the vessel, who identified themselves as Promise Eze and Adeboye David respectively, along with accomplices from…

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Navy arrests vessel with stolen crude, fingers Tompolos Tantita security outfit

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The Nigerian Navy has said its personnel arrested a 77-metre-long Motor Tanker Vinnalaris 1 Lagos, engaged in illegal crude oil shipping. According to the Navy, on Thursday, the vessel had 17 crew members onboard at the time of arrest caught engaging in illegal siphoning of crude oil from one of the well heads at EBESAN oil field about seven nautical miles off the coast of Awoye riverine community in Ilaje Local Government Area of Ondo State. A statement by the Navys spokesperson, Adedotun Ayo-Vaughan, said the arrest of the vessel…

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Tompolos firm accuses Navy of shielding crude oil thieves on high seas

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Says Navy arresting own personnel The management of Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, a Federal Government-contracted oil pipeline surveillance firm, has accused the Nigerian Navy of shielding some suspected oil thieves being pursued by its personnel. It alleged that the Navy arrested four of its personnel chasing the suspects on the high seas towards a naval base. This was contained in a statement issued by Tantita management and made available to journalists in Warri, Delta State on Saturday on the heels of the purported arrest of four surveillance personnel of…

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Crude Oil theft: PANDEF, N/Delta stakeholders commendTompolo’s pipelines security firm

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The regional body of the South-South, pan-Niger Delta Forum, PANDEF, along with other stakeholders of the region, have commended ex-militant leader, Government Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo, and his pipelines security firm, Tantita Security Services Nigeria Limited, for doing a great job. Speaking yesterday, at Port Harcourt, Rivers state, the National Publicity Secretary, PANDEF, Ken Robinson, applauded Kyari for recognising the efforts of Tompolo in securing oil pipelines awarded to his company. Robinson noted that the problem Tompolo and others were drafted to solve would not have escalated to the point of…

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2023: Tinubu meets Tompolo, others in Niger-Delta

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As part of his strategic engagement of stakeholders ahead of the 2023 election, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC,AsiwajuBola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to return to Delta State, where he is expected to meet Government Ekpemupolo, popularly known as Tompolo, yesterday. According to reports Tinubu was scheduled to meet Tompolo for a private discussion and also meet with leaders of ex-militants in the oil rich region. Recall that Tinubu was in Delta State about two weeks ago during which he launched the campaign of APC for the…

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Crude Oil Theft: Armed gangs engage in mini-war with Tompolos security men in over pipeline contract

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Tantita Security Services Limited who have exposed illegal pipelines being used for crude oil theft in some parts of the Niger-Delta have come under attack from gunmen desperate to sustain the illegal activities. The aide, who identified himself as Waterway Crayfish, quoted Tompolo as saying those bombarding him and his household with threat messages over the surveillance job he secured from the Federal Government are saboteurs, who, according to him, would continue to have his security outfit to contend with. He said the discovery of an illegal oil pipeline that…

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Oil Exports Shipping Slump: ‘Ex-militant Tompolo and team saving Nigerias economy’

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The huge albatross around the Nigerian economy as a result of the monumental challenge of the long-running crude oil theft may presently have been slowed down, courtesy of the effort of the Tompolo team. This is courtesy of ‘The Tompolo strategy’, a rugged private guards security initiative that sees the ex-Niger-Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, aka Tompolo, along with his associates spread across the Niger Delta region, manning and executing pipeline surveillance measures and preventing oil theft. Since the pipeline surveillance contract of N48billion was awarded to Tompolo, to ensure the…

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Maritime Security: Tompolo intercepts super oil tanker laden with illegal crude oil in Delta

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…Nabs 8 crew members The pipeline surveillance contract recently awarded to a security company owned by the ex-Niger-Delta militant, Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a Tompolo, by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) to assist curb oil theft and pipeline vandalism in the country, appears to be yielding targeted results, a Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) has been intercepted by Government Ekpemupolo, a.k.a Tompolo, and his team. The Security Personnel of the company, Tantita Security Services Limited, on Thursday, successfully arrested a crude oil super tanker, MT Deinmo, loaded with an unspecified…

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