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Leo Igwe is a Nigerian human rights advocate and humanist. Igwe is a former Western and Southern African representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, and has specialized in campaigning

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Mubarak Bala: Speak Out Against Religious Tyranny In Kano By Leo Igwe

Leo Igwe,
Today marks a week since the police arrested Nigerian humanist Mubarak Bala in Kaduna. They later transferred him to Kano. His arrest was over a post that he made on Facebook, which some Muslims said insulted Prophet Muhammad. The whereabouts of Bala is unknown. The police have refused him access to a lawyer. They have not charged him in court.… Read More
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COVID-19: Apostle Suleman And Five Thousand Dollar Healing Challenge By Leo Igwe

Leo Igwe,
Once again I am challenging, the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman, to heal a coronavirus patient and get a sum of money, this time a higher amount-five thousand US dollars. I am throwing the challenge one more time because Suleman has in his response refused to categorically accept or decline the offer. Suleman seemed to imply that the amount,… Read More
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COVID19: Apostle Suleman And Five Thousand Dollar Healing Challenge By Leo Igwe

Leo Igwe, ,
Once again I am challenging, the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman, to heal a coronavirus patient and get a sum of money, this time a higher amount-five thousand US dollars. I am throwing the challenge one more time because Suleman has in his response refused to categorically accept or decline the offer. Suleman seemed to imply that the amount,… Read More
Nigeria News and Headlines Opinions 

Mubarak Held Incommunicado in Kano

Leo Igwe
While the police authorities in Kano have confirmed that Nigerian Humanist Mubarak Bala is in their custody, they have not granted him access to a lawyer. He has been held incommunicado. The police arrested Mubarak in Kaduna three days ago following a complaint of insulting prophet Muhammad that some lawyers in Kano filed at the State Police Command. Mubarak was… Read More
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Mubarak Bala: Death Threats, Blasphemy And Police Investigation In Kano By Leo Igwe

Leo Igwe,
Two days ago, the police arrested Mubarak Bala, President of the Humanist Association of Nigeria, in Kaduna. Detectives from the Kano State Police Command went to his residence, arrested and later detained him at Gbabasawa police station. According to local sources, the police were planning to transfer him to Kano where some lawyers had lodged a petition against him. They… Read More
Leaders Lifestyle 

Apostle Suleman: Heal COVID19/HIV Patient and Get a Thousand Dollars

Leo Igwe,
I am challenging the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman to demonstrate his so-called gift of healing under agreed medical and scientific conditions. I ask Suleman to heal a person with a confirmed case of COVID19 and get a thousand US dollars. This challenge has become necessary because Apostle Suleman has in a recent video urged the government of Nigeria… Read More
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Apostle Suleman: Heal COVID-19/HIV Patient And Get A Thousand Dollars By Leo Igwe

Leo Igwe,
I am challenging the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman, to demonstrate his so-called gift of healing under agreed medical and scientific conditions. I ask Suleman to heal a person with a confirmed case of COVID-19 and get a thousand US dollars. This challenge has become necessary because Apostle Suleman has in a recent video urged the government of Nigeria… Read More
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COVID-19: Apostle Suleman’s Request To Pray For Patients At Isolation Centers Dangerous, Reckless And Irresponsible By Leo Igwe

Leo Igwe,
The National Center for Disease Control (NCDC) should caution the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman over his recent utterance urging the government to allow pastors into isolation centers so that they could pray for COVID19 patients.  At a time that the death toll due to COVID19 is rising locally and the pandemic is expected to spike in Nigeria in the coming… Read More
Africa 

COVID19: ‘Fake’ Vaccines and Bogus Cure Claims in Nigeria

Leo Igwe,
While the coronavirus is a killer pandemic, there is another factor that could exacerbate the management of the virus, and lead to the death of many people in Nigeria-the proliferation of fake vaccines and bogus cure claims linked to traditional medicine. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, many self-styled traditional doctors have been advertising alternative treatments and questionable therapies. Their… Read More
Lifestyle West Africa 

Utu and Witch-hunting in Southern Nigeria

Leo Igwe
While overwhelming attention on witch-hunting in Nigeria has been on the activities of pastors and other ‘powerful’ godmen and women in Cross River and Akwa Ibom states, little attention has been paid to the operations of witch-finders in other parts of the country. There is limited information about the exploits of witch identifying individuals in contemporary southeastern Nigeria. This article… Read More