Nigeria:   Ex-Militants and Pipelines Security Deal

This Day, 10 September 2012

The controversy surrounding the award of contracts by the Federal Government to some ex-militant leaders for the protection of oil pipeline facilities in the Niger Delta has been… Read more »

Nigeria:   Niger Delta - Jonathan Pays Four Warlords U.S.$40 Million Yearly

Leadership, 23 August 2012

The administration of President Goodluck Jonathan doles out almost $40 million annually to four of Niger Delta's top former warlords as protection fee for oil pipelines they used… Read more »

Nigeria:   'Tompolo, Dokubo Get N5 Billion to Guard Pipes'

Daily Trust, 23 August 2012

Former top Niger Delta militants have received about N6.32 billion to protect oil pipelines from attacks in the past year, a report by American newspaper Wall Street Journal said… Read more »

Nigeria:   Ijaw Youth Leaders Tackle Boyloaf

Vanguard, 23 July 2012

COALITION of Ijaw Youth Leaders, COIL, has disagreed with the claim by former commander of defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta, MEND, Victor Ebikabowei Victor,… Read more »

Nigeria:   N16 Billion Maritime Deal - Shippers Bow to Tompolo

Leadership, 5 April 2012

There are strong indications that indigenous ship owners who had vowed never to have anything to do with Global West Vessels Specialists Ltd (GWVSL) have begun to cooperate with… Read more »

Nigeria:   Sea Pirates Kill MD of Tompolo's Firm

Vanguard, 9 August 2012

SUSPECTED sea pirates have killed Captain Romeo Itima, Managing Director of Global West Vessel Specialist Limited, an oil bunkering surveillance company owned by ex-militant… Read more »

Nigeria:   Tompolo, Boyloaf Face-Off Worries Ex-Militants

Vanguard, 18 July 2012

Some former militants under the aegis of Ex-Niger Delta Militant Agitators Leadership Forum, ENDMALF, have express concern over the verbal face-off between Chief Government… Read more »

Nigeria:   MEND- Why Tompolo Suspended Boyloaf, By Warri-Ijaw Group

Vanguard, 17 July 2012

THE Warri-Ijaw Peace Monitoring Group, WIPMG, Warri in Delta State, yesterday, said, following the antecedents of former militant leader, Victor Ben, alias Boyloaf, it was not… Read more »

Nigeria:   Protesting Niger Delta 'Ex-Militants' Are Imposters - Amnesty Office

Daily Trust, 23 August 2012

Youth from the Niger Delta that protested non-inclusion in the presidential amnesty programme for ex-militants yesterday in Abuja were imposters, the Presidential Amnesty office… Read more »

Nigeria:   Group Declears Support for Tompolo Over N-Delta Security

Vanguard, 10 July 2012

Niger Delta Indigenous Movement for Radical Change, NDIMRC, has declared its intention to join forces with the founder of Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND, Chief… Read more »

Nigeria:   Between Tompolo and Waterways Concessioning

Vanguard, 10 April 2012

The administration of President Goodluck Jonathan appears determined to eradicate all forms of illegality in the Nigerian Water-ways - smuggling, hijacking, robbery and illegal oil… Read more »

Nigeria:   Jonathan Faces Challenge to Curb Oil Theft

Leadership, 27 June 2012

Like a tropical Venice, the town of Abonnema is packed on an island in the Niger delta - a deep river to one side, meandering creeks to another and the pounding Atlantic 40km to… Read more »

Nigeria:   We Will Break Oil Cabal - Tompolo

Vanguard, 3 July 2012

He is popularly known As Tompolo, an Ex militant leader that once evoked terror in the Niger-Delta. Most people don't know him by his bonafide name, Government Ekpemupolo, not to… Read more »