{"id":59816,"date":"2025-01-22T15:31:56","date_gmt":"2025-01-22T15:31:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59816"},"modified":"2025-01-23T18:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T18:44:27","slug":"beatrice-ekweremadu-freed-returns-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/22\/beatrice-ekweremadu-freed-returns-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekweremadu Freed, Returns to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu, wife of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has returned to Nigeria following her release from a UK prison.<\/p>\n<p>The Ekweremadus were embroiled in a high-profile legal case concerning organ harvesting, which culminated in their conviction by a UK court.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Ekweremadu was sentenced to 10 years in prison, while Mrs. Ekweremadu received a six-year sentence for her involvement.<\/p>\n<p>The case garnered significant international attention, raising critical ethical and human rights concerns about organ transplantation practices.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Ekweremadu&#8217;s return marks a key development in the ongoing narrative surrounding the legal and social implications of the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Mrs. Beatrice Ekweremadu, wife of former Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has returned to Nigeria following her release from a UK prison. The Ekweremadus were embroiled in a high-profile legal case concerning organ harvesting, which culminated in their conviction by a UK court. Senator Ekweremadu was sentenced to 10 years in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-59816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59816"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59855,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59816\/revisions\/59855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}