{"id":240853,"date":"2026-08-11T07:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-govt-files-fresh-charges-against-abuja-fertility-doctor-over-alleged-sale-of-couples-embryos\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T05:43:53","slug":"nigeria-govt-files-fresh-charges-against-abuja-fertility-doctor-over-alleged-sale-of-couples-embryos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-govt-files-fresh-charges-against-abuja-fertility-doctor-over-alleged-sale-of-couples-embryos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Govt Files Fresh Charges Against Abuja Fertility Doctor Over Alleged Sale of Couple&#8217;s Embryos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The federal government has filed a fresh charge against Abuja-based fertility doctor and pastor, Dr. John Abebe, over allegations of fraud, unlawful disclosure of confidential medical records and the alleged sale of a couple&#8217;s embryos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Also charged in case number CR\/005\/2026 are Joje Abebe Fertility Centre Limited and Balkis Olanike Bakare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The charge was filed at the registry of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, by the federal government through the Office of the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608110105.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government has filed a fresh charge against Abuja-based fertility doctor and pastor, Dr. John Abebe, over allegations of fraud, unlawful disclosure of confidential medical records and the alleged sale of a couple&#8217;s embryos. Also charged in case number CR\/005\/2026 are Joje Abebe Fertility Centre Limited and Balkis Olanike Bakare. The charge was filed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[347,258,256,4305,7578,7660,19813,55119,35597,14573,8936,4357,257,4687,393,6397,254],"class_list":["post-240853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-abuja","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alleged","tag-charges","tag-couples","tag-doctor","tag-embryos","tag-fertility","tag-files","tag-fresh","tag-govt","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-sale","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}