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

BANKS IN DUBAI ARE ORDERED TO CLOSE DOWN,NIGERIAN CITIZEN'S BANK ACCOUNTS,TO COMBAT MONEY LAUNDERING.

          According to sources who spoke to a top official of the Dubai Financial services Authority,DFSA,explained that the move is a fall out of the country's new Central Bank Laws,prohibiting Nigerians not working in the UAE from possessing accounts in any local or foreign banks.With the new monetary laws by the Emirate apex bank,all accounts of Nigerians that are not linked to work in the UAE have been closed and cheques issued in favour of the customers cashable in five working days.Investigations revealed that politicians who have stashed away huge sums of money in Dubai and other locations in the UAE are already panicking over the fate of their money and are moving to safeguard their finances.The government source said ''I's going to be a huge scandal for politicians and businessmen who go to Dubai to hide their money.And if really they are closing non salary accounts of Nigerians in Dubai,we are going to see something we have never seen before,scandals''.

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