Slavery Abolition

David Starkey, who is no stranger to controversy, drew criticism from the Board of Deputies of British Jews. (May 18, 2023 / JNS) It was the Tweet heard around parts of the United Kingdom. Then it disappeared. Now it’s back. “The reason the left has such ire for the Jews…

Media are invited; Conversation will also be streamed live Ahead of new bishop’s consecration, two North Carolinians will share vastly different family histories of slavery in a conversation focused on reparations for slavery, economic justice, and environmental justice.   NEW YORK — The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, the Most…

ENUGU STATE- The Department of Theatre and Film Studies, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), will hold an International Conference on resilience against slavery. Dr. Ikechukwu Erojikwe, the Convener of the conference and a Senior Lecturer at the department of Theatre and Film Studies, UNN, disclosed this in Nsukka on Monday…

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A panel set up by California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) in 2020 approved recommendations Saturday in Oakland for reparations for slavery and an apology, even though the state entered the Union as a free state in 1850. The Los Angeles Times reported: California’s Reparations Task Force voted on Saturday to recommend…

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Georgina Onuoha, a Nollywood actress, has derided Ike Ekweremadu, former Senate President, and his wife, Beatrice, after they were imprisoned in the UK. In March, the trio was convicted of organ trafficking after a six-week trial, making it the first conviction under the Modern Slavery Act. They received jail terms…

The case marked the first time defendants have been convicted under the Modern Slavery Act of an organ harvesting conspiracy. Though it is lawful to donate a kidney, it becomes criminal if money or another material advantage is rewarded. A Nigerian senator, his wife and a medical “middleman” have been…

Nigerian Senator Ike Ekweremadu has been sentenced to 9 years and 8 months in prison at the Old Baily in London, under the modern slavery act. Mr Justice Johnson told Mr. Ekweremadu and his wife Beatrice Ekweremadu: “People-trafficking of human organs is a form of slavery. “It treats human beings…

Former Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate, Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Beatrice and their middleman medical doctor, Obinna Obeta, will receive their sentence today, following their conviction for organ trafficking in March, in the first verdict of its kind under the Modern Slavery Act. Ekweremadu, 60, his wife, Beatrice, 56…