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

EBOLA VIRUS BREAKS OUT IN SENEGAL + GUINEA CITIZENS ATTACKS EBOLA HEALTH WORKERS.

            It was confirmed today friday that their is an out break of Ebola virus in Senegal.Senegal becomes the fifth country to be effected with Ebola virus.According to Red Cross officials in Guinea,a riot broke out in a city called Nzerekore,on thursday night over rumors that health workers had infected people with Ebola virus.A crowd of young men,some armed with clubs and knives,set up barricades across the southern city on thursday and threatened to attack the hospital before security forces moved into restore order.Gun shuts were fired and several people were injured.According to the president of the Guinean Red cross,he said that ''A rumor,which was totally false,spread that we had sprayed the market in order to transmit the virus to locals.People revolted and it resorted to violence,prompting soldiers to intervene''.Local Red cross workers had to flee to the military camp with their medical equipment.More than 400 people have died in Guinea,though the infection rate is slower than in neighboring Liberia and Sierra Leone.                                   

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