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
Today monday Professor Wole Soyink disclosed that he never applied for an American Green Card and it was the former United States President,Jimmy Carter who got it for him.Soyinka,at a press conference at the Freedom Park,Lagos,Southwest Nigeria also took a swipe at Nigerians who criticised him and wanted to know if h would abide by his comment to dump his green card if Donald Trump should win.An unhappy Soyinka said his decision to dump the green card if Trump should win was personal and was no business of any Nigerian,decrying that unwarranted comments and insults against his personality on social media by bloggers and the rest was uncalled for because they were not the ones who got the green card for him.''Let us look at the phenomenon of this green card,I called it Jimmy Carter's card.Jimmy Carter got it for me.I was teaching then at Emory University.The President of my University,William Chase had applied for a green card for me,I was then on E1/B2 visa which allowed you to teach or to work in the US for a limited period.Finally my department head and president said to me,look,you should get a green card.They insisted and they went ahead.When you are about to move from one grade to the other,either a kind of visa to the next or from that visa to green card,you become a prisoner.You cannot leave the US unless you get what is known as exeat,if you do,you cannot come back to the US,you must wait and get an exeat,'' he explained.''I really I am puzzled.I don't know what the hazzle is all about,if I decide I want to leave the US and in a particular way,that is my business and not the business of the millipedes of internet who claw out at any excuse and lips flying in their trade.I don't know what the excitation is,why do Nigerians tend to wail louder than the bereaved?.What is your business? I am addressing those illiterates who feel that they have to make themselves heard and have to express opinion about everything,whether it concerns them or not and resort to vulgar abuse and insult simply because they are scared just because one person is saying I have had enough of the state.I just want to take a walk.This is simply a personal issue,'' he said.
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