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

BOKO HARAM LEADER SHEKAU,IS CHARGED WITH CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY BY SPAIN,YESTERDAY.

              Yesterday thursday May 28,Spain's stste prosecutor charged the leader of Nigerian Islamic group Boko Haram,Abubakar Shekau,with terrorism and crimes against humanity over a 2013 attack on a Nigerian town in which a Spanish nun was assaulted.Spain has pioneered the use of universal jurisdiction,the concern that crimes against humanity can be prosecuted across borders,in instances such as when a Spanish Judge issued an arrest warrant for Chile's Augusto Pinochet in London in 1998.The Boko Haram case arises from a militant attack on the eastern Nigerian town of Ganye on March 22,2013 in which atleeast 25 people were killed.Court papers issued yesterday thursday said militants assaulted the nun,Maria Jesus Mayor,in Ganye before she was able to escape into hiding and was later rescued by Nigerian security services.For Spain to carry out universal jurisdiction,there must be a Spanish connection,such as a Spaind victim of perpetrator.In the Boko Haram case,the state prosecutor used the fact there was a Spanish victim to bring a genetic charge of crimes against humanity and terrorism.

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