LAGOS COURT JAILS NOGASA CHAIR, FATUYI PHILLIPS 21 YEARS FOR N43. 5M FRAUD. (PHOTO). #PRESS RELEASE
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
According to sources,Italy arrested five North African men today friday on suspicion of multiple homicide and human trafficking in the presumed drowning of more than 200 people,saying they used clubs and knives against migrants.Most of the dead were locked in the hold of a boat that sank off the coast of Libya on wednesday.Police said many children were believed to be among those who perished.Two Libyans,two Algerians and a Tunisian ranging in age from 21-24,were placed under formal arrest in Palermo after being questioned yesterday thursday.Police had earlier mistakenly identified the Tunisian as a Libyan.The police said the accused men charged the migrants between $1,200 and $1,800 for the voyage,depending on where they would be placed on the deck of the boat.Those on the hold paid about half as much as those above.The boat was carrying 650 people.Italian and Irish ships rescued more than 400 migrants and recovered 26 bodies,including three children.Police arrested the men after speaking to survivors during the nighr after they arrived in Palermo.A police reconstruction based on witnesses account said three of the men,part of a Libyan based human trafficking ring,alternated steering the boat while the other two kept watch over the migrants.In a police statement that reads ''The arrested are suspected of causing the confirmed deaths of 26 migrants and the presumed deaths of about 200 people who,according to witnesses,were locked in the hold of the boat that capsized''.More photos below. 
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