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
Yesterday thursday,the Nation Newspaper,published a story of a bride identified as Oluwatunmise Adejube,an HND1 Accountancy student of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic,Owo {RUGIPO},Ondo state,who wrote exams on her wedding day.She created a scene when she breezed into the examination hall in her flowing wedding gown.She was accompanied by a group of ladies,who formed her bridal train and they stormed the school in a convoy of three exotic cars.Few hours after she said yes i do to her husband Adesina,she hurriedly left the Owo Local Government Area where she got married and she rushed to the school for her Higher National Diploma {HND}1 examination.Other students in the exam hall started laughing because they were really not expecting a bride fully dressed for a wedding,to writing exams with them.After writing the exams,she told the pressmen that she had no choice than to leave the court room to write the paper,stressing that her education was as important to her as her marriage.''When the wedding date was fixed some months ago,nobody knew it would clash with my second semester examination.What appears to be a saving grace for me is that,both the wedding and examination are taking place in the same town.If otherwise,i would have missed the three unit paper and carry it automatically''.Her husband Adesina said ''Ireally praised her dogged determination.It was like a tug of war because she had to prepare for her exam and ran around for the wedding at the same time.Now that the confusion is over,i gave thanks to God for making it easy for us''.I remember back in those days,during Bar exams in Lagos campus,a lady was in labour and use that labour to write exams.Another Lady,gave birth a day before Bar exams and the next day i saw her in the exam hall.But we thank God as we all were called to the Nigeria Bar,as a lawyer.
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