She won a further silver medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth games women's lightweight category of the Para Powerlifting event behind compatriot Esther Oyema.

Four years later at the Athens Games, while competing at the same weight class, she broke the Paralympic powerlifting world record twice on the way to winning the gold medal with a lift of 127.5 kg.

This led to a showdown at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London with her rival from Athens, and current 56 kg world record holder, Fatma Omar.

Despite failing to beat Omar, the two women were a class above the rest of the field, and Ejike took silver, 17 kg over bronze medalist Özlem Becerikli of Turkey.

[6] As well as her gold medal success, Ejike was also honoured at Rio by being selected by her country to be the flag bearer at the opening ceremony.

Ejike was chosen as part of Nigeria's team for the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo where she planned to gain more gold medals and to break her own world record.