Emmanuel N. Onwubiko

Onwubiko was born in Kafanchan, Kaduna State. He attended the Teachers College. His tertiary education was at the Catholic Claretian Institute of Philosophy, Maryland, Nekede, Owerri (affiliated to Pontificia Università Urbaniana Rome),[6] where he studied philosophy. He also attended Nigeria Institute of Journalism.[7]

Onwubiko's brother and uncle were murdered by Islamists in Nigeria. He was also shot in 2006. He now works as an activist against terrorism.

The Guardian and erstwhile Federal Commissioner of the Nigerian National Human Rights Commission [NHRC] Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko advocacy visit to the Deputy Senate President Senator Ike Ekweremadu

Onwubiko has been speaking on varying national and international issues. He has authored a book titled Politics and Litigation in Contemporary Nigeria, volume one and complete volume,[8] 2003–2005. And he has also authored another new book titled Who Cares About Human Rights?[9]

After the Governor of Borno State, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, suggested that the armed Islamic insurgents would extend their terror attacks to the southern regions if they were not contained in the North-east, Onwubiko and his group called for the probing of the Governor. This triggered a harsh response by another Northern Civil Organisation group, who accused Onwubiko for giving the terror attack by Islamic Boko Haram a tribal connotation.[10] Onwubiko and his group in their rebuttal insisted that though it has no empirical evidence to link the Borno State governor to the attempted terrorists incursions into the South-East even though it advised politicians to be typically clever and surreptitious with their public statements so as not to provide psychological motivation or instigation for would-be terrorists."[11]

Onwubiko and his group HURIWA had also called on the nation's travellers to withhold their patronage of British Airways and other foreign airlines in view of recent revelations about the airlines' unethical practices, until such concerns are redressed.[12] The group he heads, HURIWA, has more than six thousand media releases on varied thematic issues of human rights.

On Thursday, 28 April 2016 Onwubiko and the group he leads, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, inaugurated their modest library project named PROFESSOR CHINUA ACHEBE’S HUMAN RIGHTS LIBRARY in Abuja.[13]

Onwubiko's pro-democracy and non-governmental organisation (NGO), Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA), on 11 May 2016 petitioned the European Union (EU), Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and foreign embassies over invasion of its office by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) what was perceived as attempts by the government to intimidate him and his group over their outspoken stand against the government's suppression of free speech[14]