Ike Ekweremadu

Ohanaeze Ndigbo, the leading Igbo sociocultural group, has begged the British government to show mercy to Ike Ekweremadu, the imprisoned former Deputy Senate President. The appeal was made by Ohanaeze on Tuesday when it hosted Dr.…

Sonia, daughter of a former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, has expressed her guilt over the imprisonment of her parents on the crime of organ harvesting in the United Kingdom. MDB had reported on Friday that a United…

The victim of Senator Ike Ekweremadu organ harvesting trafficking case, David Nwamini, has pleaded to remain and work in the UK, expressing fear that “they could arrest me or kill me in Nigeria.” Read Also: Ekweremadu Jailed For Nine…

Former Nigerian Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu has been jailed for conspiring to traffic a market trader to the UK to harvest his kidney. Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and 25-year-old daughter Sonia stood trial…

Ike Ekweremadu, Nigeria's former deputy Senate president faces up to life in jail in Britain on Friday when he is sentenced for plotting to harvest a man's kidney for his sick daughter. In the first UK case of its kind, Ike…

The Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa has joined others in pleading with the UK government to show leniency with Nigeria’s former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu who awaiting…

In an effort to get Senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife, Beatrice, a lighter sentence, the Senate has joined the House of Representatives, the ECOWAS Parliament, and others in a petition to the Central Criminal Court at the Old Bailey…

The House of Representatives made a request for Ike Ekweremadu, a Nigerian senator who was convicted of "organ trafficking" in March, receive a sentence that balances justice and mercy from the government and court in the United…

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written to the United Kingdom court that found former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, and his wife, Beatrice, guilty of organ trafficking. In the letter addressed to the Chief Clerk,…

A Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice have been convicted of organ trafficking in the United Kingdom. Ekweremadu, a former Nigerian deputy Senate president with his wife, and their doctor Obinna Obeta was found…

United Kingdom-based doctor, Obinna Obeta, accused of conniving with the Nigerian ex-Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, currently facing trial on trafficking and organ harvesting in the United Kingdom, has opened up on why he lied…

Former deputy president of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, has denied offering money to a prospective kidney donor to save his sick daughter, Sonia. The lawmaker, his wife, Beatrice, and their 25-year-old daughter are on trial in London…

A former Deputy President of the Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, will on Tuesday appear again in court in the United Kingdom where he has been accused of human trafficking. The lawmaker was in June 2022 arrested at Heathrow Airport in London…

Central Criminal Court, London, also known as Old Bailey, has again denied bail to former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu. In the pre-trial hearing on Tuesday, the court gave its verdict denying the bail on the grounds that…

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on Thursday, responded to the troubled former Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu over claims that the Commission is to blame for the United Kingdom authorities' denial of his release.…