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

FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF MAURITIUS AMEENAH FAKIM,WAS SWORN IN TODAY.

                  Prominent scientist Ameenah Gurib Fakim was sworn as president of Mauritius today,making her to be the first female to hold the ceremonial position in the Indian Ocean Island nation.This thursday the parliament of Mauritius,which received independence from Britain in 1968,voted Gurib Fakim into the presidential office.Her appointment came after former president Kailash Purryag,who was selected by the island's previous Labour party government,stepped down after having served as Mauritius's president since July of 2012.Prime Minister Sir Anerod Jugnauth told pressmen that ''I have always believed in the equality of men and women''.Many officials from the opposition party came out in support of her,despite the politicaldivide in Maurious's parliament.Her appointment was expected,and widely anticipated,after information that Purryag's January 2015 resignation was announced.People were not satisfied with candidate Navin Ramgoolam,the previous Labour Party Prime Minister,because of multiple corruption allegations against him.He was expelled from power following charges of conspiracy,cronyism,and money laundering.More picture below.                                                                                                                                

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