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

1 PERSON DEAD AFTER YINKA AYEFELE'S BAND BUS WAS INVOLVED IN A GHASTLY ACCIDENT,ON SATURDAY.{PHOTOS}.

                 On Saturday night a day before Easter Musician Yinka Ayefele,was involved in a ghastly accident when one of the trucks conveying musical equipment entered a deep pot hole along Lagos Ibadan expressway and swerved off the road into a deep ditch,killing one of the engineering crew aboard while several others sustained various degree of injuries.The deceased 39 year old Mr Tunde Oduneye was confirmed dead at the University College Hospital {UCH},AROUND 11:00pm on sunday.The Merry Makers band ,according to a release signed by the Publicist of the band,Mr David Ajiboye,had been contracted to perform at the wedding ceremony of the daughter of Olu Amore,a Commissioner of Police before the truck conveying the equipment back to Ibandan had the accident shortly after the old toll plaza at Ogere.A visibly shocked leader of the band,Yinka Ayefele,was seen being consoled by sympathizers at the Accident and Emergency ward of the UCH where injured members of the crew were being treated.The deceased's body was interred in his home town of Ijebu Igbo on Sunday evening.He is survived by a wife and a two year old baby.Meanwhile,the band also lost musical equipment worth several millions of naira in the fatal crash.Some of the equipment got damaged beyond repair while some that fell in the swampy area of the crash could not be retrieved.More photos below.                                                                                                                         

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