A socioeconomic organisation in the Niger Delta region, the Anti-Pipeline Vandalisation/Oil Theft and Illegal Bunkering Task Force Group has faulted a call on the Federal Government to cancel the crude oil pipeline surveillance contract being handled by Pipeline Infrastructure Nigeria Limited (PINL). The push is being made by a body which identified itself as the National Awareness Forum (NAF). Rising …

Ondo State Governor, Arakunrin Rotimi Akeredolu has condemned the pipeline protection contract award to private organisations linked to former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) leader, Government Ekpemupolo (better known as Tompolo). Recently, the Federal Government renewed a multi-million dollars pipeline surveillance contract to ex-militant Tompolo. The deal is said to worth over N4 billion …

The Federal Government has renewed a multi-million dollars pipeline surveillance contract to a former militant leader  Government Ekpemupolo (well known as Tompolo). The Nation reports that the Federal Government and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Limited signed the deal with Tompolo, who is also the Commander of the defunct Movement for Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND), to end illegal …