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

WE HAVE NEVER BEEN CONFRONTED WITH BUTCHERY ON THIS SCALE-SOYINKA.

Nigerian Literature Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka speaks to Reuters correspondent Tim Cocks (R) during an interview in Soyinka's home in the southwest city of Abeokuta July 1, 2014. Nigeria is suffering greater carnage at the hands of Islamist group Boko Haram than it did during a secessionist civil war, yet this has ironically made the country's break-up less likely, Soyinka said. REUTERS-Akintunde Akinleye             An international source,visited Wole Soyinka at his home in Abeokuta on tueday and he was interviewed and durig the interview,Wole Soyinka said ''The blod shed was now worse than during the 1967-70 Biafra war when a secessionist attempt by the eastern Igbo people nearly tore Nigeria up into ethnic regions.We have never been confronted with butchery on this scale,even during the civil war.There were atrocities during Biafra but we never had such a near predictable level of carnage and this is what is horrifying''.

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  1. What is happening in the North, is God's retribution of the senseless killings of eastern Christians at any flimsy religious excuse.

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