People invoke witchcraft to make sense of misfortune in situations where they do not want to accept responsibility. T ...

Belief in the potency of charms persists in many parts of Nigeria, and Africa despite the spread of modern education, ...

We must be unrelenting in making this demand and in asking this question: Why do religions need money, our money for ...

I have heard a lot about an Africa, about a side of Africa- the dogmatic side, the faith filled, blindly believing Af ...

Thank you the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) for selecting me as the recipient of the Distinguished Ser ...

It was an opportunity to counter Islamic fanaticism but the Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa 39;ad Abubakar III, blew ...

The need for critical thinking in Africa cannot be overemphasized because it is in this region that some of the dark ...

In a recent lecture , Owen Jones, who described himself as a lsquo;socialist humanist rsquo; and an lsquo;atheist r ...

Recent events in Nigeria, Senegal and other parts of Islamic Africa should make Muslims across the region to start re ...

Atheism is a term that is not often associated with Africa and Africans. Studies have rather linked both ancient and ...

The Atheist Society of Nigeria (ASN) has drawn the attention of the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria to the unet ...

The recent case of a traditionalpriest in Ghana who was fatally wounded in the process of testing his supposed anti-b ...

Yesterday, over fifty persons protested in front of the office of the Amnesty International in Abuja, Nigeria. Source ...

Atheism is now an lsquo;incorporated belief rsquo; in Nigeria. The news, coming out of Africa rsquo;s most populous ...

The Nigerian Humanist Movement (NHM) was founded in 1996 and the main goal was to provide an alternative to religion ...

Very early in life, I noticed a connection between questioning and change - between asking why? Why not? How do you k ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, Sa rsquo;ad Abubakar (lll) has made it clear that hatred, inequity, injustice and discrimination a ...

Anxiety prevails in the Gambia as the people await what becomes of their country come January 19. Will this country t ...

For over five years I have been living in Europe, and I have never at any time been as worried as I am right now for ...

Twisted thinking that seeks to use religion to legitimize hatred and discrimination against gays was recently displa ...

People sleep for some time but they may not sleep forever. The grip of an ideology, religious or secular, that holds ...

Zimbabwe stands to gain a lot from the spread of secular values in the country because faith groups are taking advant ...

The image of a SouthAfrican pastor spraying his congregation with a pesticide called Doom during a lsquo;healing ses ...

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa rsquo;ad Abubakar III has recently attributed the current economic recession in ...

The Jigawa state government has just announced a major state development project: the construction of ninety mosques; ...

A court in Kano state in Northern Nigeria has acquitted five persons who were arrested in connection with the killing of ...