LAGOS MARCH 23RD (NEWSRANGERS)-Nigerian senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife and a medical middleman have been found guilty of trafficking a man to Britain to provide a kidney, a statement from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday. Ekweremadu, 60, his wife Beatrice, 56, and Nigerian doctor Obinna Obeta, 51, were convicted in a British…
LAGOS FEBRUARY 21ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian market trader allegedly trafficked to London has told a jury he was shocked when a doctor revealed he was to have a kidney transplant. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said he thought he was coming to the UK for work. At the Old Bailey, Nigerian politician…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Former 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 PUNCH had earlier reported that the UK Metropolitan Police formally charged Ekweremadu and his wife with conspiracy to facilitate the…
LAGOS JUNE 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-British authorities say they have rescued a child who was targeted in a disturbing international organ-harvesting plot. A top Nigerian senator and his wife have been charged with conspiracy over a plan to bring the child to the U.K. in order to harvest their organs, London’s Metropolitan Police announced Thursday. No details…