Emmanuel Nnadozie De Santacruz Onwubiko is a Nigerian journalist of over two decades, he worked for seven years as a sole senior Court /judicial reporter in the nation's capital for The Guardian (Nigeria).

[5] Onwubiko is a publisher, editor-in-chief of Icons of Human Rights monthly newsletter and executive director of ParadiseFound media company limited.

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.

[12] The group he heads, HURIWA, has more than six thousand media releases on varied thematic issues of human rights.

[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.