How Tompolo Tantita Security Company Boost Oil Production for FG

How Tompolo Tantita Security Company Boost Oil Production for FG

By Kagbala Ezekiel 

Tantita Security Services Nigeria Ltd is currently the reference point to boost Nigeria's oil economy.The company's recent activities have resulted in increased volume of crude oil production and biggest gain for the Federal and States Government of Nigeria.

The Federal Government, Nigeria Navy and Tompolo’s company Tantita security service Nigeria Ltd deserve unreserved accolades for taking the bull by the horns and answering the clarion call to tackle offshore oil theft, thus saving the environment from further pollution and degradation.

Successes recorded in the crude oil production is sequel to the signing of the pipeline surveillance contract with Tantita. This has continued to  promote the development of both human capital and infrastructure of this country.

Initially, Oil companies have complained about spending so much money to fix pipelines when they are vandalized, this has added to the cost of production and reduces what gets to the Federal Government for development.

Currently oil companies are enjoying increased and improved oil production and related services with support from communities who are now beneficiaries of the security job across the Niger Delta region.

Sustained Security of Oil Facilities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria through Tantita is the only productive means of ensuring improvement in the nation’s capacity to earn income to fund development, and reducing borrowing, in all our oil wealth should be harnessed to uplift the nation and unite the people.

The government should as a matter of utmost importance set-up a legislative instruments and policies that will sustain the gains recorded so far.

Tantita security beyond supporting the nation’s capacity to earn income to funding development,  Nigerians, fishermen, women farmers in the Niger Delta can now enjoy a remediated environment with oil pollution being reduced to the barest minimum. 

Chairman of Tantita Security Service Nigeria Ltd, High Chief Government Oweizide Ekpemupolo, alias Tompolo and the Managing Director of Tantita Security Services Limited, Chief Kestin Pondi, deserve a national award for galvanizing the security contract to benefit and empower youths, women, civil society, communities, media organisations, traditional rulers and stakeholders in the Niger Delta.

For the first time in Nigeria history, all Niger Delta people are ready to support the protection of oil installations in the Niger Delta.

23-Yr- Old Lady Dies, 4 Days after Hip Surgery in Lagos

23-Yr- Old Lady Dies, 4 Days after Hip Surgery in Lagos

Lagos _____ A 23-years old girl, Destiny Benjamin, has been reported dead four days after a botched hip surgery popularly known as Brazilian Butt Lift, BBL, at Cynosure Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Lagos.

Various social media platforms have been awash with the viral video of the unsuccessful surgery procedure since her death.

Confirming the development, the owner of the Cynosure Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Dr Ogbe Omoruyi, where the surgery took place, denied the allegation that the lady died in the hospital during the surgery.

Omoruyi, who spoke to Vanguard, explained that the deceased underwent the surgery on 8th, March 2023, and had complained of difficulty in breathing before she was referred to the Genesis Specialists hospital, Ikeja GRA, Lagos State, where she gave up the ghost.

Omoruyi who is also a Plastic surgeon and owner of the facility further told Vanguard that the deceased was 23 years old and not 20 years.

He said: “She is a 23-years old girl according to what she wrote on the document. She had a surgery and after that, she was fine, her surgery went well. I can show you in our case note to show that everything was fine, however, after days, she was having difficulty breathing. We placed her on oxygen and she was stabilised before we referred her to an Intensive care unit, which is 10 minutes away from our facility.

“Unfortunately as we all know, surgery has its own risk, and if you ask any professional doctor or surgeon who knows about life consumptions and tractions, it is very easy to think that she could have fat embolism or clot embolism, but she has difficulty breathing.

“A very important investigation was done, and that was how the investigation was called CT pulmonary angiogram this can detect any clot that is present within the pulmonary system unfortunately, she suffered this condition but she was not pulmonary assort and that makes us begin to wonder what it could have been, because from the findings of the investigation, a different diagnosis was raised after the embolism, and the results came out based after she did the test.

“The test was done in the facility where she was referred to, when she got there and went for the test, the investigation was done and the report, I didn’t even get to know about the report. It was done at a different facility, however, we maintained a relationship with the facility and when I was informed and showed the results, it was said that she didn’t have an embolism.

“Her cousin, Sunset, was with her after her surgery.

They went around because they were together. She came here to see her and they took pictures together, moving around the clinic compound two days later. This is to let you know that she was fine after the surgery.

“ Unfortunately, an autopsy hasn’t been done; I don’t know if the family is going to consent to that, I mean the autopsy to see the exact cause of her death.”

Contrary to social media reports that the medical clinic recorded five deaths in a year, Ogbe said only two deaths have been recorded in the clinic, noting that it happened in the year 2018 and 2021.

He said: “This can be verified under the Local Government because all Local governments have Primary Health centres where practitioners give reports on the death toll. So, we have only two recorded deaths.”

When the Lagos State spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin was contacted, he said: “To the best of my knowledge, I am not aware of the incident, the families of the bereaved have neither reported to the police authority.”

However, efforts to contact the Genesis Specialist Hospital, proved abortive as the person who answered Vanguard’s call at press time said he did not know what happened.

PAP Partners with NIMASA to Engage Amnesty Delegates_Ndiomu

PAP Partners with NIMASA to Engage Amnesty Delegates_Ndiomu

Lagos—Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP), Major General Barry Ndiomu (rtd), has implored the Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency (NIMASA) for a workable and sustained partnership towards creating opportunities for teeming youths in the Niger Delta region.

Ndiomu who made the request on Tuesday in Lagos when he visited the Director-General of NIMASA, Dr. Bashir Jamoh at the Maritime House, Apapa, called for more assistance and cooperation from international stakeholders.

He commended the DG and his team for redefining the safety and security of Nigeria’s maritime industry.

“I’m aware of your outstanding achievements, particularly in the obvious reduction of piracy on the Gulf of Guinea,” Ndiomu said.

Informing the NIMASA DG of his agenda for the Amnesty Programme, he said, “my vision is to chart a new path for the Amnesty Programme by upholding the principal objectives of government.”

He continued, “As well as bringing innovative ideas, setting a new management structure of wealth creation for the teeming youths, instead of depending on monthly stipends, to pave way for a more prosperous future.”

Ndiomu noted that in the maritime domain, the PAP has trained a large number of youths across institutions in the world in various specializations, some of which include deep sea diving, underwater welding, marine engineering and many more professional training.

He regretted that after these trainings, many of them remain unemployed. 

The PAP boss further sought the possibility of the establishment of a Coordinating Secretariat between PAP and NIMASA to drive further conversations.

“We are looking at technical support from NIMASA, job placement opportunities in NIMASA for our qualified delegates,” he added.

In his response, Dr. Jamoh stated that the maritime industry in Nigeria is large enough to sustainably engage the teeming youths, noting that there are enormous opportunities in the industry that youths can take advantage of to generate foreign earnings.

The DG stated that the meeting between both agencies is apt and remains a wakeup call on the need to collaborate efforts, as both agencies are closely related.

He recalled that in 2021 when he visited the Amnesty Office in Abuja, there was an agreement to form a Joint Board Meeting to drive more conversations for collaboration.

He equally noted that this is a critical time for NIMASA and PAP to have a robust relationship, adding that “the international community is already commending Nigeria for the successes recorded in addressing maritime insecurity in the country”.

“Both the Nigerian government and international committee are watching to see if the tempo can be sustained,” he said.

Jamoh thus suggested that to sustain the current tempo, it is important to fully empower and reintegrate beneficiaries of the Amnesty Programme into the society.

He informed that NIMASA has trained over 4,000 Nigerians internationally under the Nigerian Seafarers Development Programme, majority of whom are from the Niger Delta region

President-elect, Tinubu to Returns to Nigeria on Monday after a month rest

President-elect, Tinubu to Returns to Nigeria on Monday after a month rest

Exactly 35 days to his inauguration on May 29, the President-elect, Bola Tinubu, will arrive in Nigeria tomorrow, Monday April 24, after a one-month rest in France.

Tinubu left the country for France on Tuesday, March 21 to rest and plan the transition programme ahead of his inauguration on May 29.

One of his loyalists confirmed that the president-elect would arrive in the country on Monday evening, barring any unforeseen circumstances. “Asiwaju is coming back on Monday. He will arrive Monday evening.”

His Media Office had in a statement in March, explained that he travelled to France to rest and plan his transition programme after a very exhaustive campaign and election season. The president-elect had left the country through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja.

According to the statement, the president-elect decided to take a break after the hectic campaign and election season to rest in Paris and London, preparatory to going to Saudi Arabia for Umrah (Lesser Hajj) and the Ramadan Fasting.

The statement also added that while away, the president-elect would also use the opportunity to plan his transition programme. “He has directed all the senior aides and campaign staff to also go and observe a short rest. He is expected back in the country soon. We enjoin the media to stop publishing rumours and unsubstantiated claims and to always seek clarifications from our office,” his media office reportedly said.

On his return to the country, the president-elect is expected to hit the ground running to address certain issues that would ensure effective take-off of his government on inauguration on May 29.

One of such issues is the zoning of National Assembly leadership which has polarised the two chambers of the parliament along regional and religious lines.

While the South-west will emerge as the new kingmaker, the current kingmaker, the North-west, is seeking compensation in the new dispensation for delivering the highest votes to the president-elect.

To this end, the incoming lawmakers from the zone have eyes on the Senate President, a development, which is bringing them on a collision with their colleagues from both the South-east, who are crying due to perceived marginalisation, and the South-south that lays the golden egg.

Both the South-east and South-south are laying claim to the Senate Presidency to ensure the emergence of a Christian Senate President and balance the same-faith presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The emergence of a Senate President from the North-west would create a Muslim Senate President, which would be unacceptable to the South-east and the South-south, given the fact that both the president-elect and the vice president-elect are Muslims.

The position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives is also in contention. Tinubu is expected to rally the leaders of his party and the members-elect of the two chambers of the National Assembly to resolve these issues by zoning the positions of the principal officers of the parliament to balance regional and religious interests.

The president-elect is also expected to use the next 35 days to assembly a competent team that will form his cabinet to ensure smooth takeoff after his inauguration.

It took President Muhammadu Buhari roughly six months to form a cabinet after his inauguration on May 29, 2015 and it is expected that Tinubu will not make the same mistake.

Another major challenge facing Tinubu on his return is how to handle the removal of petrol subsidy, which is long overdue, without hurting the organised labour, which had given stringent conditions for the removal of subsidy.

The Petroleum Industry Act (PIA), which came into effect in 2022, provides for the removal of subsidy but the implementation of this aspect of the legislation was suspended for 18 months, which expires in June.

The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Ambassador Gabriel Aduda, had on Friday, stated that a lot of consideration was ongoing to ensure that the subsidy removal is given human face.

Tinubu had also vowed to remove subsidy as part of his campaign promises and how he handles it without creating labour crisis is a task he will map out in the coming weeks before his inauguration.

The president-elect will also face the task of ensuring that there is social cohesion by initiating a healing process that will unify Nigerians. Currently, Nigerians are bitterly divided along tribal and religions lines.

One of the ways he will start the healing process is by ensuring that there is equity and fairness in the zoning of the principal offices in the National Assembly. Tinubu will also have to clear himself of the grievous allegations made against him at the election petition court by the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, and his counterpart in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, among others.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared the APC presidential candidate as the winner of the February 25 presidential election, having polled 8,794,726 votes.

He defeated his closest rivals, the presidential candidate of the PDP, Atiku, and his counterpart in the Labour Party, Obi, who polled 6,984,520 votes and 6,101,533 votes, respectively.

Tinubu had last week submitted 13 names of eminent Nigerians that would make up the Presidential Inauguration Committee ahead of the May 29 inauguration. But the PDP has knocked Tinubu for not appointing anybody from the South-east to his 13-man transition committee.

The submission of the 13 names was in response to a letter by the Presidential Transition Committee (PTC), headed by the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, asking for nominations into the 13 sub-committees under the Inauguration Committee of the council.

The committee was saddled with the task of planning the week-long inauguration activities that will usher in Tinubu and the Vice President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, as president and vice-president of the country, respectively, on May 29.

Tinubu had earlier submitted the names of the Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, and a former Commissioner for Finance in Lagos State, Wale Edun, to the council.

Nieketein to Lay Mother to Rest on 27th April, at Aleibiri Community

Nieketein to Lay Mother to Rest on 27th April, at Aleibiri Community 

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Warri ____ The Senior Special Assistant (SSA) on Community Matters to the Delta State Governor, Chief James Ekeramame Nieketein (JP), has invited political associates, friends and well wishers to grace the burial ceremony of his beloved late mother, Mrs. Foropa Dauseye - Ebireni at Aleibiri Community in Ekeremor LGA of Bayelsa State on Thursday, 27th April, 2023.

In a statement jointly signed by Chief Ekeni Dauseye for the family, and Chief James Nieketein (JP) for the children stated that, the remains of Mama Foropa Dauseye - Ebireni aged 90 would be laid to eternal rest on 27th April, 2023 at Aleibiri.

Late Mama Foropa Dauseye Ebireni died after a brief illness on the 13th of February, 2023 in Dallas Texas, USA.

The burial ceremony of Late Mama FOROPA DAUSEYE-EBIRENI is billed to hold in the  Afternoon. An Open Air Funeral Service shall be conducted by LIVING FAITH CHURCH, aka Winner Chapel, Aleibiri Community.

However, Music is to be supplied by Alfred Ezon-ebi JKing and his Because of Love Band.

See Burial Details As Announced below.

With gratitude to God Almighty for a life well spent and with total submission to the will of God, the families of Gagara-Tu in Opuokidiama in Aleibiri Community in Ekeremo LGA of Bayelsa State and Egbuku in Akwaware Quarters of Torugbene Community in Burutu LGA of Delta State wish to ANNOUNCE THE PASSING UNTO GLORY OF Late Mrs. FOROPA DAUSEYE-EBIRENI.

She was survived by two sibling, one half sister, Four children, Fourteen Grand Children, Nine Great Grand Children, Son-in-laws, Daughter-in-law, Nieces, Nephews, Cousins and many other relations too numerous to mention.

BURIAL ARRANGEMENTS

THURSDAY 27TH APRIL,2023.

8:00am - Body leaves Ebidou Mortuary, Ofoni with a brief Stop-over at her husband's Compound at Egbuku Family, Akwaware Quarters, Torugbene Community.

10:00am - Body leaves Torugbene to Opuokidiama, Aleibiri Community:

11:00am - Body Lying in State in her Family Compound at Opuokidiama, Aleibiri Community.

12:00pm - Body Leaves Family Compound to the venue of Open Air Funeral Service.

1:00pm - Interment at her Family Compound.

1:30pm - Entertainment of Guests immediately after Interment.

Music Is To Be Supplied By Ezonebi Alfred, JKing.

SUNDAY 30TH APRIL, 2023.

8:00am - Thanksgiving Service at Winners Chapel, Aleibiri Community.

Signed:

Chief Ekeni Dauseye,

For the family.

Chief James Nieketein (JP),

For the Children.