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

14 PEOPLE CONFIRMED DEAD BY FRSC,AS ASSEMBLIES OF GOD CHURCH BUS,CLASHED WITH ANOTHER CAR IN EBONYI STATE.

                 Yesterday saturday,a car and a 14 sitter bus clashed and 14 people were today sunday,confirmed dead by the Federal Road Safety Commission {FRSC}in the terrible crash that occurred at Amasiri Secondary School junction,along Afikpo Okigwe road in Ebonyi state.Mr Roland Ogbuke,Afikpo Unit Commander of FRSC,tld NAN that accident involved an articulated vehicle and a 14-seater bus.According to him,the bus was conveying members of the Assemblies of God Church,Is in Ohaoazara Local Government Area,who were returning from a burial.''We received a distress call on saturday and immediately mobilised my rescue officers to the scene of the incident.We are not sure of the cause of the accident,but an eye witness told us that the articulated vehicle was trying to dodge a heap of sand on the road and ended up hitting the oncoming vehicle.The impact of the hit by the articulated vehicle threw the bus to a tree some metres away from the road and squeezed it into some zero shape that mangled bodies of the occupants.We had to mobilise a nearby quarry company which used its heavy duty machine to cut the tree and the bus,in order to evacuate the mangled bodies of the passengers''.He added that the crushed passengers were mostly women,that their relatives and church members,who were in other vehicles,help FRSC officers in the evacuation process.''The police in particular,assisted the FRSC in evacuating the bodies to the Mater Misericordae Hospital,Afikpo''.

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