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

18 KILLED IN A MASSIVE EXPLOSION AT A WEDDING IN INDIA.{PHOTOS}.

Indian army and emergency services personnel carrying out rescue work after a building collapsed because of a gas cylinder explosion during a wedding party in Beawar, Rajasthan state, on Feb 18, 2018.PHOTO: AFP.
        A gas cylinder exploded late Friday (Feb 15) at the hotel in the city of Beawar, in the western state of Rajasthan, reducing the venue to ruins and sparking a huge fire.By Saturday evening officials said nine bodies had been found.
By Saturday evening officials said nine bodies had been found.But the figure rose sharply Sunday as rescue teams, aided by the army, found nine more victims including women and children under rubble."So far 18 bodies have been recovered," said Gaurav Goyal, a senior administrative official in Ajmer, the district where the blast occurred, about 200km from the state capital Jaipur."Five seriously injured people, with severe burn injuries, are being treated in hospital,".Recovery teams were sifting through mangled heaps of concrete and steel, removing victims on stretchers covered with white sheets.The blast all but levelled the three-storey hotel where a wedding was underway. Eyewitnesses told local broadcaster NDTV the explosion occurred as a chef tried to refill a cooking canister.Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje visited survivors in hospital late Saturday and announced compensation of 200,000 rupees (RM12,094) each for the families of the dead."The cylinder blast at the wedding ceremony at Beawar is nothing less than a nightmare," she said on Twitter.Domestic gas cylinder explosions are common in India, where safety standards are relatively poor. Reports of fatal accidents from cylinder blasts are frequent but mass casualties are unusual.
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