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British Government has rejected a request by Nigeria to deport the former three consecutive term Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, who is serving a prison term in the United Kingdom for organ trafficking, The Guardian UK reports on Monday. The lawyer cum politician was sentenced to nine years and eight months in 2023 after a […]
Continue ReadingAmerican-based Nigerian star actress, Georgina Onuoha has mocked former Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, following their imprisonment in the United Kingdom, UK, under the Modern Slavery Act,. Last Friday, the UK Court had sentenced Ekweremadu to 9 years and eight months, while his wife Beatrice and Obinna Obetta got four years and […]
Continue ReadingThe one who hasn’t been hit by war calls himself a man (Eni ija o ba nii pe ‘ra e l’okunrin). The word for ‘fight’ in Yoruba is ‘ija’; but ‘ija’ is much more than ‘fight’. It means battle; it is also war. If you’ve never been caught up in or overtaken by war, it […]
Continue ReadingA court in United Kingdom (UK) has sentenced former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu, to nine years and eight months in prison for an organ trafficking plot, in a conviction that was the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act (MSA). The court also sentenced his wife, Beatrice, to four […]
Continue ReadingFormer Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice, have been found guilty of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. After a six-week trial at the Old Bailey, the duo alongside their daughter, Sonia, and a medical doctor, Dr. Obinna Obeta, were found guilty of facilitating the travel of a young man to Britain […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s former deputy senate president and his wife appeared in a London court on Tuesday ahead of their trial for organ harvesting, but his accused daughter was unable to attend as she is in hospital. Ike Ekweremadu, 60, appeared at the Old Bailey court wearing a grey tracksuit top, speaking only to say “Yes, miss” […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has released photos of some of the 40 properties Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court, Abuja, Nigeria, ordered former Deputy Senate president, Ike Ekweremadu, to forfeit to the Federal government. This platform earlier on reported that the antigraft agency had secured the order for the interim […]
Continue ReadingA United Kingdom-based Nigerian doctor has been accused of conniving with the Nigerian ex-Deputy Senate President facing trial on trafficking and organ harvesting in the UK, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife to traffic a homeless man into the UK to harvest his kidney for their daughter. The 50-year-old doctor, Obinna Obeta from Southwark, south London, […]
Continue ReadingEx-deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, alongside his wife, Beatrice Nwanneka Ekweremadu, has been denied bail and remanded in custody by a United Kingdom court over allegation bordering on organ trafficking. The UK Metropolitan Police formally charged Ekweremadu and his wife with conspiracy to facilitate the travel of another person for organ harvesting in the UK. […]
Continue ReadingThe Federal Republic of Germany has written a letter to former Deputy President of Nigerian Senate, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, over alleged attack on him by members of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB) in Germany a fortnight ago. The German government, expressed their concern in a letter to the Senator by the Acting Ambassador, Mrs. […]
Continue ReadingOn May 22, 1856, an important and dramatic event was recorded in the history books of the United States’ Senate. A member of the House of Representatives entered the Senate chamber and beat a senator into unconsciousness. It was said that Representative Preston Brooks used a light cane, of the type used to discipline unruly […]
Continue ReadingNigerian Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki and President Muhammadu Buhari met on Tuesday, 14th May, for the first time since the 2019 general elections when Saraki lost his return to Senate bid. According to the official Twitter handle of the presidency, Buhari hosted him and the leadership of the National Assembly to the breaking of […]
Continue ReadingNigeria’s Deputy Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu, said, even as a PDP member, he gave the All Progressives Congress (APC) N5 million to help it gain grounds in 2014. Addressing his constituents in Enugu on Sunday, Ekweremadu said he extended the gesture because Chris Ngige, now minister of labour and productivity, asked him for the […]
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