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

ISRAELI HIGH COURT ORDERS CLOSURE OF DETENTION CENTER FOR AFRICAN MIGRANTS.

African migrants walk outside Holot open detention centre in Israel's southern Negev desert September 22, 2014. REUTERS- Amir Cohen                      According to sources,Israel's high court yesterday monday outlawed a detention center where African migrants are held without trial and ordered 2,000 inmates to be released over the next three months.Th ruling struck down a measure passed by Israel's parliament in December to indefinitely incarcerate migrants,most of them from Sudan and Eritrea,in a measure criticized by human rights groups as an attempt to force migrants to leave.Israeli leaders have denounced the migrants they refer to as infiltrators as harmful to Israel and largely stopped their entry by fortifying a fence along the Egyptian border in 2012,later offering financial incentives to those agreeing to leave and detaining thousands.The detention center called a Holot opened a year ago in the Southern Negev desert.One more photo below.                            An African migrant prepares food outside Holot open detention centre in Israel's southern Negev desert September 22, 2014.  REUTERS- Amir Cohen     

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