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

MARRIAGE BEFORE THE AGE OF 18 FOR BOTH MALE AND FEMALE,IS NOW ILLEGAL IN zIMBABWE.

              Yesterday wednesday,a zimbabwe's constitutional court ruled that marriage before the age of 18 is illegal.The uprecedented ruling by the court followed an application by two women,Loveness Mudzuru and Ruvimbo Tsopodzi,who sought to have the legal age of marriage moved to 18 for both men and women.The two young women were just girls when they were married and gave birth for the first time.Ruvimbo Tsopdzi now 20 was 15 when she had to get married.She was forced to leave the marriage and return to her parents home after suffering emotional and physical abuse,she told the court in a signed affidavit.She said ''My life is a hell at the moment and cannot be wished on anyone else.Raising a child when you are a child yourself is excruciation and painful''.Part of the ruling says ''No person,male or female in zimbabwe may enter into any ,marriage,including an unregistered customary law union or any other union,including one arising out of religion or a religious rite,before attaining the age of 18''.More photos below.                                                                                              

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