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Suspected Port Harcourt Serial Killer Pleads Guilty

October 22, 2019 1:46 pm

Begs court for forgiveness

The suspected Port Harcourt serial killer, Gracious David West, Tuesday pleaded guilty to charges of murder preferred against him by the police at the State High Court.

He, however, accused the police of withholding ₦60,000, wristwatch and jewelry seized from him during his arrest.

This is as the Rivers State Government also took over the prosecution of the suspected serial killer.

The Rivers State Police Command in suit PHC/3426/CR/2019 had preferred a 10-count charge of conspiracy and murder on West.

The police charged West for unlawfully killing several women in different hotels and guest houses in

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Zimbabwe’s President Pleads Patience Amidst Economic Crisis

October 3, 2019 6:46 am

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pleaded for time and patience to bring the country’s economy back from the “dead”, as his government faces blame for surging inflation that evokes dark days under late former leader Robert Mugabe.

Hopes that the economy would quickly rebound under Mnangagwa, who took over after Mugabe was deposed in a coup in November 2017, have faded fast with Zimbabweans grappling with acute shortages of fuel and electricity as well as soaring prices.

In a state of the nation address in the Parliament of Zimbabwe on Tuesday – a speech boycotted by the main opposition Movement …

Court grants Iwu ₦1billion bail, still in prison custody

Former INEC chairman Iwu pleads not guilty of ₦1.23bn fraud

August 8, 2019 9:22 am

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Thursday arraigned a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Maurice Iwu, for an alleged fraud of ₦1.23bn.

Iwu was arraigned on a four-count charge bordering on money laundering before a Federal High Court, Lagos State. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

An EFCC source told The Guardian that Iwu is alleged to have aided the concealment of the sum of N1,203,000,000 between December 2014 and March 2015,

The source said monies were in the bank account of Bioresources Institute …

CJN Onnoghen pleads not guilty to charges, gets bail

February 15, 2019 7:04 am

ABUJA—The suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Justice Walter Onnoghen, on Friday, pleaded not guilty to the six-count charge the Federal Government levelled against him.

Onnoghen, who mounted the dock at exactly 10:15am, equally persuaded the Mr. Danladi Umar led tribunal, to vacate the arrest warrant that was issued against him on Wednesday.

FG had in the charge marked CCT/01/2019, alleged that Onnoghen who was suspended from office on January 25 by President Muhammadu Buhari, failed to declare his assets as prescribed by the law.

He was accused of operating foreign bank accounts since 2011, contrary to section 15(2) of …