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Leo Igwe, Nigerian human rights advocate and humanist, 2017.
In September, the High Court in Port Harcourt convicted five SARS policemen for the extrajudicial executions of Michael Akor andMichael Igwe in 2009.
Ung Igwe real, as it is created by native speakers people, that uses language for every day.
And it's important to know Igbo is a tonal language,and so they will say the word"igwe" and"igwe": same spelling, one means"sky" or"heaven," and one means"bicycle" or"iron.
On July 12, 2012, Igwe participated in a panel discussion at The Amaz!ng Meeting(TAM) 2012,"From Witch-burning to God-men.
After the attack, the leader of Liberty Gospel Church, pastor Helen Ukpabio, sued the state government, as well as several critics,including Igwe, seeking 2 billion naira(about $13 million USD, 2010) and an"order of perpetual injunction," restraining her critics' speech from further criticizing her work.
Igwe was later released without charge, according to Gary Foxcroft of Stepping Stones Nigeria, and"in good spirits.
In addition to founding the Nigerian Humanist Movement, Igwe was also a main organizer and presenter in 2007 at the first international humanist conference in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Igwe bu ike:(unity is strength), is one of the sayings which emerged in the experience chapter as hallmarks of Igbo philosophy of collaboration, its literary rendering is'there is strength in numbers'….
With panelist Eran Segev(then-President, Australian Skeptics) and moderator Brian Thompson(Outreach Director,JREF), Igwe discussed his efforts in human rights advocacy and the deleterious effects of superstition and witchcraft accusation in Nigeria, Ghana, and Malawi, as well as drawing public attention to the activities of witch hunters.
Igwe's presentation addressed the issue of poverty driving both the supply of anddemand for self-styled exorcists, whom Igwe says preys on desperate communities and results in the abandonment or neglect of children.
It makes our dictionary! Xóõ Igwe real, as it is created by native speakers people, that uses language for every day.
Igwe has also served on the board of directors of Atheist Alliance International, where he facilitated collaboration between AAI and the Nigerian Humanist Movement, resulting in the NHM receiving both the AAI International Freidenker Award and the AAI Community Cooperation Award.
In a Fall 2000 article in the quarterly journal"Free Inquiry", Igwe enumerated different ways in which religious extremists in Nigeria have co-opted the local government and used it to enforce religious codes of law, hindering the upholding of human rights in those areas.
In October 2012, Igwe was appointed as a Research Fellow of the James Randi Educational Foundation(JREF), a skeptical nonprofit organization founded by magician and skeptic, James Randi.
Leadership==* Bishops of Minna(Roman rite)** Bishop Martin Igwe Uzoukwu(since 1996.07.05)** Bishop Christopher Shaman Abba(1973.09.17- 1996.07.05)* Prefects Apostolic of Minna(Roman rite)** Bishop Edmund Joseph Fitzgibbon, S.P. S.
In Nigeria, Leo Igwe, an activist, was repeatedly arrested and ill-treated by the police because he had stood up in defence of people accused of"witchcraft.
On July 29, 2009, Igwe was scheduled to speak at a meeting in Calabar, Nigeria,"condemning the abandonment, torture and killing of children alleged to be witches.
As a humanist, Leo Igwe doesn't believe in divine intervention-- but he does believe in the power of human beings to alleviate suffering, cure disease, preserve the planet and turn situations of poverty into prosperity.
According to the report, Igwe had been arrested three times since beginning work on the rape case, as a result of allegedly malicious petitions, prompting David Pollock of the EHF to write to then Vice-President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, on Igwe's behalf.
Responding to criticism by Igwe and other activists, Ukpabio told"New York Times" reporter Mark Oppenheimer that"her filmic depictions of possessed children, gathering by moonlight to devour human flesh"(as seen in her film"End of the Wicked") were not meant to be taken literally, and stated, according to Oppenheimer, that the BBC documentary"Saving Africa's Children" "exaggerates or invents the problem of child abandonment.