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

DRAMA BETWEEN AGABI & JACOBS OVER DARIYE'S N1.162BN FRAUD CASE.{PHOTOS}.

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     The duo of Kanu Agabi and Rotimi Jacobs, both SAN, yesterday  entertained the FCT High Court presided over by Justice Adebukola Banjoko during the trial of Joshua Dariye, a former Plateau State governor. Dariye is facing a N1.162 billion fraud charge preferred against him by the EFCC. Before adjoruning the case, at the instance Agabi to October 10, 2017 for further proceedings, Jacobs told the court how Agabi's request was a frivolity since as the AGF and Minister of Justice during the Obasanjo's government, it was Agabi who requested for documents and relevant information from UK government upon which Dariye's charges was prepared.But Agabi replied Jacobs that as his SA then, Jacob is in a position to know better. But insisted that he needed time to study the new brief just given to him by Dariye. The matter could not go on at the last sitting, June 19, 2017 as Dariye had at the time not got himself a new counsel, prompting the judge to adjourn to September 18.At the resumed sitting, Dariye, eventually brought a new counsel, Kanu Agabi, SAN, to court, to continue his defence, after dragging the case for more than three months, during which he said he was still searching for a new counsel. It will be recalled that his former counsel, G.S. Pwul, SAN, who began his defence on January 25, 2016 when the case resumed, withdrew in March this year.One more photo below.
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