{"id":9703,"date":"2016-06-30T19:47:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-30T19:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9703"},"modified":"2016-06-30T19:49:11","modified_gmt":"2016-06-30T19:49:11","slug":"has-the-fg-transferred-controversial-maritime-university-to-ibusa-as-naval-chief-begs-nigerians-to-fish-out-tompolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/?p=9703","title":{"rendered":"Has the FG transferred controversial Maritime University to Ibusa as Naval chief begs Nigerians to fish out Tompolo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nigerians have been urged to assist secu\u00adrity agencies with vi\u00adtal information that can lead to the arrest of wanted for\u00admer Niger Delta militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo.<\/div>\n
The appeal came on Tuesday from the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas.<\/div>\n
In an interaction with journalists in Warri, Ibas announced plans to upgrade the Nigerian Navy Second\u00adary School in Ibusa, Oshimi\u00adli North Local Government Area of Delta State to a mar\u00aditime university.<\/div>\n
His disclosure raised fears that the Federal Gov\u00adernment may have finally dumped the controversial Nigerian Maritime Univer\u00adsity in Okerenkoko in the same state.<\/div>\n
Vice Admiral Ibas, who inspected facilities in na\u00adval formations in the state, said the process of getting the university licenced for operation was ongoing with the relevant agencies.<\/div>\n
When asked on the whereabouts of Tompolo, he posited: \u201cThis suspect is declared wanted by the Eco\u00adnomic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). It is the duty of all Nigerians, not that of the Navy or security agents alone to arrest him. Anyone with useful informa\u00adtion should provide same for the relevant agencies to get to him.\u201d<\/div>\n
Ibas, who spoke with journalists at the Navy Air-Flow Station in Effurun near Warri, noted that the recent decline in attacks on oil facil\u00adities by Niger Delta militants was largely due to peace talks and military surveillance.<\/div>\n
He added that the pro\u00adposed university when ful\u00adly operational would serve both the military and gener\u00adal public as well as save the country huge money spent on the training of its offic\u00aders abroad.<\/div>\n
Ibas commissioned the newly refurbished intel\u00adligence control room, car parks and other facilities at the Warri Naval Base, head\u00adquarters of the Nigerian Navy Ship, during the visit.<\/div>\n

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He explained that the Nigerian Navy Engineering College, Sapele, is also be\u00ading upgraded to one of the campuses of the new univer\u00adsity which will be operated in partnership with a Greece foundation.<\/div>\n
When also asked on the fate of the Nigerian Maritime University at Okerenkoko in Warri South Local Govern\u00adment Area of the state, Vice Admiral Ibas said that issues surrounding the school was being handled by the Feder\u00adal Government and that he cannot comment further.<\/div>\n
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Nigerians have been urged to assist secu\u00adrity agencies with vi\u00adtal information that can lead to the arrest of wanted for\u00admer Niger Delta militant leader, Chief Government Ekpemupolo alias Tompolo. The appeal came on Tuesday from the Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas. In an interaction with journalists in Warri, Ibas announced plans […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[1154,61,2207,1054,2208],"class_list":["post-9703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-chief-government-ekpemupolo","tag-efcc","tag-nigerian-maritime-university","tag-okerenkoko","tag-vice-admiral-ibok-ete-ekwe-ibas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/maritime-unni.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oswh-2wv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9705,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9703\/revisions\/9705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/newsroom247.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}