LAGOS COURT JAILS NOGASA CHAIR, FATUYI PHILLIPS 21 YEARS FOR N43. 5M FRAUD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE
Lagos Court Jails NOGASA Chair, Fatuyi Phillips 21 Years for N43.5m Fraud Justice Mojisola Dada of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, on Monday, November 18, 2024, convicted and sentenced Fatuyi Yemi Philips, Chairman, Natural Oil and Gas Suppliers Association of Nigeria, NOGASA, to 21 years imprisonment for N43.5m fraud. The Lagos Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on April 5, 2022, arraigned Philips alongside his firm, Oceanview Oil and Gas Limited, on a two-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N43, 502,000.00 Count one reads: "Fatuyi Yemi Philips and Oceanview Oil and Gas Nigeria Limited, on or about the 28th day of September, 2016 at Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, obtained the aggregate sum of N43, 502,000.00 from Elochukwu Okoye and Elebana Unique Ventures Nigeria Limited on behalf of WAPCIL Nigeria Limited under the false rep
The special Adviser to the president Jonathan on new media,Reno Omokri threatens Sahara Reporters with a suit,saying that they are not beyond the bounds of legal actions.Sahara Reporters has said that it is ready to meet the president in court over it's publication that there was was a secret birthday party held for president Jonathan.Reno Omokri accused sahara reporters as being irresponsible and false.Sahara Reporters said in a statement ''Despite mr Jonathans threats and deployment of scare tactics,Sahara Reporters stands by its account of the events in london in the past few days.They also said ''While we have the attention of the president and the hawks in the presidency,we take this opportunity to draw their attention to the scandalous quality of Nigerian governance that sahara reporters and most of the Nigerian media have been reporting for many years,of which his government forms only a part''.''As the 2015 election draws near,and mr Jonathan tries to invite the sympathy of Nigerians in the his favour,we challenge him to prove,including in a court of law that these reports have been entirely fictional,malicious,hate driven and scurrilous distortion of the facts.
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