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

BE HOSPITABLE TO ONE ANOTHER TO FOSTER PEACE, ATTRACT BLESSINGS, SAYS CLERIC.(PHOTO).#PRESS RELEASE


Be hospitable to one another to foster peace, attract blessings, says cleric

By David Okpala/Stella Okpala

The Vicar, St. Paul's Catholic Church, Akpo, Rev Fr Johnpaul Okechukwu has called on Nigerians, ethnic groups, to accommodate one another as to foster peace and attract blessings from Most High.

He made the call in a homily during Mass, at the Church, in Akpo, Aguata LGA.

The cleric said, "hospitality is requisite to attracting blessings of God. It is peace driven. With peaceful coexistence in any society, progress and development is assured.

"As humans, we ought to pray, work for what we want in life, yet God blesses according to his riches in glory, as it pleases him."

He sighted example of Shunem woman in the Bible who had riches without male child.

"Her hospitality to Elisha the Prophet attracted blessings of male child, even at old age.

"So, it is wrong for an ethnic group that have mineral resources to think that they do not need people from other ethnic groups."

According to him, you cannot have it all. God is even in distribution of amenities.

"Land, capital, labour and entrepreneur are all factors of production as such needed together to produce.

"No one survives an Ireland . We need each other to making better Nigeria."

He enjoined affluents to accommodate the poor within their neighborhood, give alms to them, emphasizing that God rewards gifts that do not demand pay back of any kind.

Fr Okechukwu urged everybody to give something to another, stressing that everybody has something to give.

"If you do not have money, you may have service to render.

"Good advice to young ones, tolerance, honesty, availability, good moral conduct are all virtues capable of making people stand out.

"Give these virtues to young ones, the blessings of the affluent that give resources belongs to you also. (MOI)

 

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