AN online petition has been launched, calling on the Nigerian authorities to investigate a very public assault on a teenage girl by a self-styled “bishop”. The ‘bishop’ was caught on camera delivering the slap (click on pic to view the entire incident) During a “deliverance” service at Otta, in Ogun state, “Bishop” David Oyedepo, general [...]
AN on-going campaign of intimidation against Nigerian humanist Leo Igwe took a sinister new twist when Igwe, a representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) in West Africa, was beaten up while in police custody. Igwe, Director of the Centre for Inquiry in Nigeria who has been bravely campaigning against religious leaders and [...]
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ARMED police in South Africa were unable to prevent a mob stoning a priest to death earlier this week. They stood helplessly by as the mob killed Albert Shai, 65, of Rakoma village outside the attractive garden town of Tzaneen because they believed had “bewitched” a young relative, causing him to commit suicide. The killing, [...]
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WE have just been informed by Leo Igwe, Executive Director of the Nigerian Humanist Movement, that the lunatic head of the Liberty Gospel Church, Helen Ukpabio, failed for the second time to appear in the Federal High Court in Calabar to press a lawsuit she initiated against him and a number of others – and the case [...]
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THE nonsensical belief that children can be possessed by evil supernatural forces is increasingly being spread in the UK by evangelical preachers with African backgrounds. The problem was highlighted a year ago by a Channel 4 Dispatches team – and this week we were reminded of the devastating effects of child witchcraft belief when an [...]
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HELEN Ukpabio, the demented leader of Nigeria’s Liberty Gospel Church, has brought a lawsuit against humanist Leo Igwe and a number of other parties opposed to her campaign against “witches”, claiming two hundred billion Naira ($800,000 dollars) in damages. An email we have just received from Igwe reveals that Ukpabio, whose minions disrupted a conference [...]
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The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
