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CHOICES bind everything in life. The one taken by former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu, in June 2022, has now earned him 10 years jail term. A United Kingdom court on Friday sentenced Ekweremadu to a total of nine years and eight months imprisonment, while his wife, Beatrice, was sentenced …

A former military Governor of Kaduna State, Dangiwa Umar, has prayed that the United Kingdom court should grant the letter written by the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, pleading it pardons former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and wife. In a letter dated April 3, 2023, and addressed to the Chief Clerk …

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has been found guilty of organ trafficking by a United Kingdom court. His wife Beatrice and Obinna Obeta, a doctor involved in the case, were also found guilty. The jury found that they conspired to bring the victim to London to exploit him for …

Senator Ike Ekweremadu, a former Deputy Senate President, has insisted that his doctor advised him against seeking a kidney donor from his family members. Ekweremadu disclosed this to a court in London on Thursday during cross-examination in an organ harvesting and trafficking criminal trial. Recall that the lawmaker and his …

Daughter of a former deputy senate president, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Sonia, has denied trafficking a man, David Ukpo, into the United Kingdom to harvest his kidney for herself. Sonia Ekweremadu, 25, is charged alongside her father, mother, Beatrice Ekweremadu and a Nigerian medical doctor, Obinna Obeta. Ekweremadu, Beatrice and Obeta …

Former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, on Tuesday, prayed a Federal High Court, Abuja to dismiss an application filed by the kidney donor, David Ukpo, asking the court to set aside its orders made on July 1 and July 6. Ukpo, through his lawyer, Bamidele Igbinedion, …

A 24-year-old lady, Annastasia Michael, has written an open letter to the daughter of Senator Ike Ekweremadu, Sonia, offering to donate one of her kidneys to save her life. This is coming after the 25-year-old Sonia Ekweremadu made an appeal to members of the public to donate a kidney to save her …

SOUTH-East Governors have come under attack over their alleged lack of concern in the continued detention of former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu by the United Kingdom government. DAILY POST reports that Ekweremadu has been behind bars following an order of a London Court after he was charged for alleged …

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, has claimed that there is a grand conspiracy to keep Senator Ike Ekweremadu away from Nigeria due to the 2023 general elections. Therefore, it requested that the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) step in and secure the lawmaker’s immediate release. The …

A Nigerian doctor named Obinna Obeta, residing in the United Kingdom has been accused of plotting with former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, to traffic a homeless man into the country for kidney harvest for the senator’s daughter. Newsextra24 recalls that the Ekweremadus were arrested and …