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

F.H.C IN LAGOS,ORDERS FOR TOMPOLO'S ARREST TODAY.

                        Today monday,a Federal High Court Judge in Lagos state,Justic Ibrahim Buba,directed security agencies to arrest a former Niger Delta Militant leader.Ekpemupole aka Tompolo.He held that the warrant of arrest still subsists.The Judge said ''All authorities are under obligation to ensure Tompolo is arrested and produced in court to face trial.Justice Buba dismissed Tompolo's application seeking to quash the warrant of arrest issued to compel his appearance.Justice Ibrahim Buba on January 14 issued the warrant after Tompolo failed to report in court ti face criminal charges filed against him by the Economic and financial Crimes Commission {EFCC}.The judge had earlier issued summons on Tompolo,documents which EFCC lawyer, Festus Keyamo,said were duly affixed on a conspicuous part of Tompolo's home at 1 Chief Agbanu DDPA Extension,Warri,Delta State,as ordered by the court.But Tompolo claimed that the EFCC did not follow due process of Law in applying for an order of substituted service of the criminal charge against him.Sources further said .that,he claimed the documents were sent to a wrong address,One more photo below.                                   

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