LAGOS COURT JAILS NOGASA CHAIR, FATUYI PHILLIPS 21 YEARS FOR N43. 5M FRAUD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE

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 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

HIGH COURT BOMBED IN PORT-HARCOURT.

federal-high-court-in-abuja            High court in Port Harcourt.Ahoada East high,the capital of Rivers state in Southern Nigeria was razed today after a bomb explosion this morning.The bombers are yet to be identified.The bombed court belongs to Justice CN Wali,the judge who on 16 December last year made an interim order barring Evans Bipi,a member of the House of Assembly,from parading himself as the speaker of the house.Bipi has been a contender for the position of speaker of the Assembly,since an aborted attempt in November to unseat the authentic speaker,Amachree.According to reports from Port Harcourt,the court was billed to continue the case today,when it was bombed.The PDP stated that it's legal team from Abuja and Lagos,had arrived the court premises only to discover it had been bomb.The ruling APC has accused the PDP for the bombing saying ''we are aware that the present PDP in  Rivers state under  chief Wike is violence prone but we wish to reiterate that no amount of violence and intimidation will cause us to surrender the mandate freely given to us by the Rivers state people to a group that have demostrated total disdain to democratic principle''.APC State chairman,Davies Ibiamu Ikanga condemed the bombing,saying that it demostrated the desperation by the PDP to turn Rivers state into a theatre of violence.

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