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

4,182 PORNOGRAPHIC MOVIES,SEIZED IN PLATEAU.

                The Zonal Coordinator,North Central,National Film and Video Censors Board {NFVCB}Mr Ailewon Danlami,said the organisation confiscated 4,182 pornographic movies in Plateau from July 2014 till date.The coordinator made the disclosure when he visited the National Orientation Agency office in Jos today wednesday.He said the movies were confiscated across the 17 local government areas of the state as part of efforts to enforce compliance with the required standard for movie production and classification.He said that ''We confiscated 4,182 pornographic movies worth more than N600,000 to serve as deterrent to defaulters.The purpose of our visit is to collaborate with NOA,which is present in all the 17 council areas of the state for wider and effective reach in terms of media literacy on movies and movies production''.In response,Mr Bulus Dabit,the Director of NOA in Plateau said the organisation was ready to partner with NFVCB to enforce compliance of acceptable standards and classification of movies.''Even though the public has the right to information and entertainment through what they watch and hear,they should not be fed with junk such as pornographic materials.Piracy and low quality production could undermine and destroy the foreign exchange revenue derived from the industry.The public enlightenment on the rights to good production could query and push defaulters out of market.''Standard production can generate foreign exchange for the country and decongest the pressure on crude oil because it has window of opportunities to be harnessed''.

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