Ike Ekweremadu: Organ-trafficking plot politician and wife guilty

A senior wealthy Nigerian politician, his wife and a medical "middleman" have been found guilty of an organ-trafficking plot, after they brought a 21-year-old man to the UK from Lagos. Senator Ike Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Dr Obinna Obeta, 50, were convicted of conspiring to exploit the man for his kidney, in the first such case under modern slavery laws. The Old Bailey heard the organ was for the couple's daughter, Sonia, aged 25. She was cleared of the same charge. The victim, a street trader from Lagos, was brought to the UK last year to provide a kidney in an £80,000 private transplant at the Royal Free Hospital in London.

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2023 Election: I Will reclaim my mandate -Senator Onwe

The candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Ebonyi Central Senatorial Zone in Ebonyi State, Senator Emmanuel Onwe has vowed to challenge the election which produces the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Ken Eze as the winner in the last Saturday poll. Onwe alleged that the election was characterized by fraud, corruption and manipulations which according to him must not be allowed to stand. He vowed that he will challenge the election in court in order to recover his mandate. He disclosed that he has been gathering evidence since after the election which he will use to challenge the poll. Onwe, a former Senator and former Commissioner for Information and State Orientation in the state, who briefed journalists in Abakaliki, the state capital, faulted INEC for declaring Ezza North/Ishielu federal constituency election in the zone inconclusive and declaring the result of the Ebonyi Central Senatorial Zone. “Oriuzor is one of the wards in the zone out of 58 ...

Celebrating Ebonyi APGA Spokesman, Hon. Nwanchor @30th Birthday Anniversary.

Ebonyi APGA Spokesman, Hon. Nwanchor @30th birthday Anniversary. Hon. Nwanchor Chibuike Nwanchor hails from Nzashi Ndiagu Echara in Ikwo LGA, Ebonyi. He holds BSc.Ed(Hons) with MSc.Ed in view from the prestigious University of Calabar, Nigeria. He's the Executive Director of Nwaanacho Foundation, an NGO that cares for the most vulnerable in the society particularly widows and street Children in Nigeria. He's also the CEO of NWAANACHO NIG LTD. He started manifesting his leadership capacity at a young age. By the time he was in secondary school, he was already clothed with in the full armour of leadership credos, and that manifested in the several positions he held as a school functionary. At the University of Calabar, he served as the Director of Welfare and President of the National Association of Ebonyi State Students, a position in which he made remarkable achievements and contributed greatly to the growth and development of Ebonyi Students. Hon. Nwanchor, is a member of...

Ebonyi lawmakers threaten speaker with impeachment over gov’s loan request.

Crisis appears to be brewing at the Ebonyi State House of Assembly following the demand by members to impeach the Speaker, Francis Nwifuru, if he refuses to resign. Nwifuru, who is also the governor-elect, has been the Speaker since 2015. A document, titled, ‘Ebonyi Speaker under fire to resign or risk impeachment,’ signed by the Public Relations Officer of the Assembly, Mr Egede Sylvester, and obtained by our correspondent, said the members demanded the immediate resignation of Nwifuru and his deputy, Kingsley Ikoro, or they should face impeachment. The document quoted the Majority Leader of the House, Victor Chukwu, as having spoken on behalf of his colleagues, saying, “The members of the House are no longer satisfied with the leadership of the House under the administration of Chief Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru and urge him to resign in his honour and for the betterment of the state Assembly and the state at large.” On his part, the Speaker, Chief Francis Ogbonna Nwifuru, sai...

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