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

THERE IS SHORTAGE OF FOOD AND MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO EBOLA INFECTED VILLAGES IN LIBERIA.

Health workers wearing protective clothing prepare to carry an abandoned dead body presenting with Ebola symptoms at Duwala market in Monrovia August 17, 2014.  REUTERS-2Tango                 According to Tarnue Karbbar,a worker for charity plan international based in Lofa County said ''In Boya,in northern Liberia,a man named Joseph Gbembo who caught Ebola and survived says he is struggling to raise 10 children under five years old and he is also supporting five widows after nine members of his family were killed by the virus.Fearful of catching Ebola themselves,his neighbors refused to speak with him and blamed him for bringing the virus to the village.If sufficient medication,food and water are not in place,the community will force their way out to fetch food and this could lead further spread of the virus''.To try to control the Ebola epidemic spreading through West Africa.Liberia has quarantined remote villages at the epicenter of the virus,evoking the ''Plague villagers'',shutting them off from the outside world.With few food and medical supplies,getting in,many abandoned villagers face a stark choice to stay where they are and risk death or skip quarantine.                                                                                                                                      Photo

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