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Genocide In Nigeria: U.S. Will Cut All Taxpayer Funding To Nigeria Says President Trump

Genocide In Nigeria: U.S. Will Cut All Taxpayer Funding To Nigeria Says President Trump


The President of the United State Donald Trump had said the country will cut off all taxpayers funding for a Terrorists enabling government of Nigeria where Christian Genocide is currently ongoing. 


Nigeria government has done nothing to stop the killings by Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits, Fulani herdsmen and kidnappers. Thousands have been killed in the country. In Plateau, Borno, Kaduna, Zamfara, Nasarawa, Kastina, Yobe, Benue states. Attacks of the Terrorists have escalated even into southern party in Ondo State where Christians where massacred in a church in Owo. In Igangan, Oyo State where a whole town was ransacked by the armed bandits and Fulani herdsmen.

Kwara State is currently be raiding by the Terrorists. Nigeria's government have totally looked other ways since APC pro Terrorists Regime took over since 2015 till date.


Trump said: “Nigeria’s a disgrace… they’re killing people by the thousands. It’s a genocide, and I’m REALLY angry about it!” He says the Nigerian government has done nothing to stop the slaughter:


“They are very ineffective. They’re killing Christians AT WILL.”


And the money pipeline? “We pay a lot of subsidy to Nigeria. We’re going to stop. Not a dime until the killing ends.”


Trump also says the crisis was being ignored until he stepped in two weeks ago: “Until I got involved, nobody even talked about it.”


HUGE move — and a massive warning shot to Nigeria’s leadership.


The killings and kidnapping were primarily targeting Christians.


The President of the United State Donald Trump had said the country will cut off all taxpayers funding for a Terrorists enabling government of Nigeria where Christian Genocide is currently ongoing. 


Nigeria government has done nothing to stop the killings by Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits, Fulani herdsmen and kidnappers. Thousands have been killed in the country. In Plateau, Borno, Kaduna, Zamfara, Nasarawa, Kastina, Yobe, Benue states. Attacks of the Terrorists have escalated even into southern party in Ondo State where Christians where massacred in a church in Owo. In Igangan, Oyo State where a whole town was ransacked by the armed bandits and Fulani herdsmen.

Kwara State is currently be raiding by the Terrorists. Nigeria's government have totally looked other ways since APC pro Terrorists Regime took over since 2015 till date.


Trump said: “Nigeria’s a disgrace… they’re killing people by the thousands. It’s a genocide, and I’m REALLY angry about it!” He says the Nigerian government has done nothing to stop the slaughter:


“They are very ineffective. They’re killing Christians AT WILL.”


And the money pipeline? “We pay a lot of subsidy to Nigeria. We’re going to stop. Not a dime until the killing ends.”


Trump also says the crisis was being ignored until he stepped in two weeks ago: “Until I got involved, nobody even talked about it.”


HUGE move — and a massive warning shot to Nigeria’s leadership.


The killings and kidnapping were primarily targeting Christians.

Christian Genocide: Islamic Jihadists wants to take over this country and force us to be like Turkey – Rev. Dachomo

Christian Genocide: Islamic Jihadists wants to take over this country and force us to be like Turkey – Rev. Dachomo


Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo has boldly described the Islamists terrorism in the Northern part of the country as a dangerous movement threatening the unity and peace of Nigeria.


 Dachomo alleged that a “Northern Jihadist evil satanic agenda” was working systematically to dominate the country and transform it into a state influenced by extremist ideologies. “I said it confidently, Northern Jihadists’ evil satanic agenda wants to take over this country and lure us to be like Turkey,” he declared, emphasizing his conviction that the plan was deliberate and coordinated.


Reverend Ezekiel said the agenda was not hidden but had been unfolding gradually through political, religious, and social manipulation.


 He explained that the strategy involved penetrating national institutions and influencing policies to align with extremist interests. He said the reference to Turkey was symbolic of what happens when a once pluralistic society succumbs to authoritarian and religious extremism.


“Look at what Turkey was and what it has become,” he said, pointing to what he described as the gradual erosion of democracy and religious tolerance. The cleric stressed that Nigeria must learn from history rather than repeat it.


Reverend Ezekiel further claimed that the movement sought not only political power but also spiritual domination. He said it was an attempt to “reshape the soul of the nation” through fear and violence, turning communities against one another in the name of religion. “This is beyond politics,” he noted, describing it as a battle for the very conscience of Nigeria.


He explained that such extremist forces often exploit poverty, unemployment, and ignorance to recruit followers, especially among young people.


According to him, these recruits are then used as instruments to destabilize communities and advance a broader religious agenda. “They are misled to believe they are fighting for faith, but in reality, they are being used for evil,” he said.


Reverend Ezekiel lamented that successive governments had underestimated the ideological nature of the threat. He said military interventions and negotiations would not end the crisis unless the underlying belief system driving it was confronted head-on. “You cannot defeat an ideology with bullets alone,” he warned.


He urged Nigerians, particularly the Christian community, to wake up to the danger of complacency. He said many people dismiss warnings like his as exaggerated until the violence reaches their doorstep. “When we speak, they say we are being dramatic,” he stated, “but every day we are losing more villages, more lives, and more faith in our government.”


According to him, the silence of national leaders on repeated attacks across Christian communities gives room for suspicion that the agenda is being tolerated. He called on religious and civic groups to unite in resistance against what he described as a creeping form of jihadism. “We cannot fold our hands and watch our nation be overrun,” he said firmly.


He said that his statement was not born out of hate or division but out of truth and concern for Nigeria’s survival. He said unity could only exist when justice, equality, and mutual respect were guaranteed for all. “Peace without truth is false peace,” Reverend Ezekiel asserted, maintaining that acknowledging the threat was the first step to overcoming it.



Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo has boldly described the Islamists terrorism in the Northern part of the country as a dangerous movement threatening the unity and peace of Nigeria.


 Dachomo alleged that a “Northern Jihadist evil satanic agenda” was working systematically to dominate the country and transform it into a state influenced by extremist ideologies. “I said it confidently, Northern Jihadists’ evil satanic agenda wants to take over this country and lure us to be like Turkey,” he declared, emphasizing his conviction that the plan was deliberate and coordinated.


Reverend Ezekiel said the agenda was not hidden but had been unfolding gradually through political, religious, and social manipulation.


 He explained that the strategy involved penetrating national institutions and influencing policies to align with extremist interests. He said the reference to Turkey was symbolic of what happens when a once pluralistic society succumbs to authoritarian and religious extremism.


“Look at what Turkey was and what it has become,” he said, pointing to what he described as the gradual erosion of democracy and religious tolerance. The cleric stressed that Nigeria must learn from history rather than repeat it.


Reverend Ezekiel further claimed that the movement sought not only political power but also spiritual domination. He said it was an attempt to “reshape the soul of the nation” through fear and violence, turning communities against one another in the name of religion. “This is beyond politics,” he noted, describing it as a battle for the very conscience of Nigeria.


He explained that such extremist forces often exploit poverty, unemployment, and ignorance to recruit followers, especially among young people.


According to him, these recruits are then used as instruments to destabilize communities and advance a broader religious agenda. “They are misled to believe they are fighting for faith, but in reality, they are being used for evil,” he said.


Reverend Ezekiel lamented that successive governments had underestimated the ideological nature of the threat. He said military interventions and negotiations would not end the crisis unless the underlying belief system driving it was confronted head-on. “You cannot defeat an ideology with bullets alone,” he warned.


He urged Nigerians, particularly the Christian community, to wake up to the danger of complacency. He said many people dismiss warnings like his as exaggerated until the violence reaches their doorstep. “When we speak, they say we are being dramatic,” he stated, “but every day we are losing more villages, more lives, and more faith in our government.”


According to him, the silence of national leaders on repeated attacks across Christian communities gives room for suspicion that the agenda is being tolerated. He called on religious and civic groups to unite in resistance against what he described as a creeping form of jihadism. “We cannot fold our hands and watch our nation be overrun,” he said firmly.


He said that his statement was not born out of hate or division but out of truth and concern for Nigeria’s survival. He said unity could only exist when justice, equality, and mutual respect were guaranteed for all. “Peace without truth is false peace,” Reverend Ezekiel asserted, maintaining that acknowledging the threat was the first step to overcoming it.


Trump: War General, Kurunmi’s lessons for Tinubu

Trump: War General, Kurunmi’s lessons for Tinubu

 

Festus Adedayo 



Greek philosopher, Socrates, may be the most famous Western figure of his time to have swallowed the poisonous plant's juice called hemlock. But, Africa, too had its. As he was sentenced to death in 399 BCE, Socrates was forced to drink this poisonous plant secretion which causes muscular paralysis, leading to respiratory failure. As he lay dying, having swallowed his own hemlock kept in a calabash bowl, the tragic life of Kurunmi, 19th century Yoruba military general and Yoruba race’s 10th Aare Ona Kakanfo, stands as a huge lesson for contemporary leaders. Though Kurunmi learned the lesson too late, its precepts are that, through decisions or indecision, leaders lead their people to avoidable bloodshed.


For Nigerian political leaders, the wailing regret of their actions and the consequences may be loud. As loud as they may seem, they are synonymous with the proverbial wails of the killed and grilled Okete, the pouched rat. As Bola Tinubu, the latest version of Aso Rock dwellers, seeks solace from an impending Donald Trump shellacking, the rat stands as symbolism of leadership in Nigeria in the last 26 years.  While alive, Okete countermanded every counsel for him to be circumspect. He condemned it as possessing nil substance. At death, however, hoisted up on the grilling fire gauze by the woman who hangs venison for sale, Okete raised his hands up in a post-mortem surrender.


If irascible Donald Trump eventually attacks Nigeria as he has been roaring to do in the past one week or thereabout, Nigerians have their leaders of the 4th Republic to blame. If this happens, one historical narrative often deployed as a fitting recollection of such invasion is the story of Kurunmi, one of the governors of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Atiba. He was domiciled in Ijaiye. Kurunmi’s point of departure from Alaafin Atiba was the monarch’s decision to tamper with the ancient constitution which proclaims that the crown prince of the empire must die with his father, the Alaafin. By shielding Prince Adelu from death, Kurunmi was furious with the Alaafin.  


In the infamous Ijaiye war with Ibadan, Kurunmi lost all. His warlords’ stubborn insistence on crossing River Ose was one of the first steps to spell a monumental disaster for the Ijaiye warriors. They all perished inside the river.  Kurunmi lost Iwawun which came to him as a chilling news. The generalissimo was contemptuous of Ibadan’s military might, having earlier defeated the people in the battle of Odogido. He derogatorily called Ibadan “bush goats” and “horses full of muscles, small in sense.” The Basorun Ogunmola warriors had to fight to the last pint of their blood to reclaim their pride. In the process, they demonstrated to Kurunmi that they had huge sense and possessed sterner military prowess.


As he mobilized to fight Ibadan, Kurunmi sent emissaries far and wide to seek support for his war campaign. He got the buy-in of the Egba tribe, among others. On one of such expeditions, Ibadan waylaid his emissaries to the Emir of Ilorin and killed 19 of them. By the time the battle ended, Ijaiye suffered such huge fatalities that is today a legend in defeats in warfare. Five of Kurunmi’s children were killed by Ibadan, including Arawole, his son, whose decapitated and blood-enveloped head, when presented to him in Ijaiye, unmistakably told Kurunmi that the battle was indeed over.


When the poison’s pang meandered through his entrails with deathly searing pain, Kurunmi cursed his remaining generals, Mosadiwin and Abogunrin. The curse would assume its potency, he pronounced, if they did not inter him immediately but allow “my body stay(s) here for the vultures of Ibadan to peck at… if my skull serves as drinking cup for Adelu.” His last words as he committed suicide, was, “When a leader of men has led his people to disaster, and what remains of his present life is but a shadow of his proud past, then it is time to be leader no more.”


So many historical accounts of Kurunmi’s reign revealed his kind of leadership. Richard Henry Stone, an American representative of the Southern Baptist convention on a missionary expedition to Africa in the 19th century did this. In a chapter in his biography entitled In Africa’s Forest and Jungle or Six Years Among the Yorubans, he dedicated a chapter to Kurunmi which he entitled “An African despot.” In it, he wrote of his encounter with this dreaded military general thus: “He was haughty, despotic, ambitious and cruel… he was also firm, just and reasonable on most occasions. I never saw better order anywhere than I saw in Ejahyay (Ijaiye) while Areh (Aare) was its ruler. But he was a bloody usurper. When he was a young man, he was a notorious free-booter and slave hunter. With a number of followers, who had attached themselves to his fortunes, he would go out from Ejahyay into some distant province on predatory excursions. By kidnapping in the farms and by plundering caravans, he became rich and powerful.”


The above earlier excerpts were the result of a literary, though fictional re-calibration of what was left of the true but tragic life of Kurunmi, one of Yorubaland’s most famous war generals. Written by Professor Ola Rotimi in his epic drama, Kurunmi, Rotimi also characterized Kurunmi as a great military leader and war general whose fatal ending came as a result of a leadership Achilles’ heel. It is, taking others for granted. Like many contemporary leaders, Kurunmi faced internal strife within Ijaiye and external threats from imperial powers who wanted him subjugated. The rampaging Fulani forces were one of them. Alaafin Atiba too barely tolerated him. Rotimi used this play to showcase Kurunmi’s martial prowess in the face of attacks and how the conflict within the Oyo empire eventually consumed him.


In the days of yore, in centuries that preceded the advent of colonial rule, vile comments against a people, the type of which was recently credited to American president, Donald Trump, were enough to provoke a war. Kurunmi said as much against the Ibadan and provoked their anger. “Bush goats” and “horses full of muscles, small in sense” were as villainous as "the now disgraced country" of Trump’s description of Nigeria. The disgrace isn’t that it was coming from the leader of another country; the disgrace is that Nigerian leaders are actually disgraceful. They are the proverbial self-advertizing ripe fruits of an orange tree who invite stones and wood-pummeling on the mother tree. From Olusegun Obasanjo, to Umaru Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari and now to Bola Tinubu, Nigerian leaders of the Fourth Republic have left their food plates unwashed and have invited Trump, the green fly, to feast on their failures.


When Boko Haram insurgency began under Modu Ali Sheriff as governor of Borno State, Obasanjo was in the saddle. While holding court in Maiduguri, on July 28, 2002, Mohammed Yusuf, founder of the dreaded Islamist organization and its spiritual leader, got surrounded by Nigerian military troops. They enveloped the sect members and arrested Yusuff two days after. Captured by the military in that expedition, Yusuf was taken to custody of the police where, for fear that he could name his sponsors in government, Yusuff was summarily executed outside of the police headquarters. Later on, some aides of the Governor Sheriff, and even the governor himself, were alleged to be in cahoots with Yusuff. Rather than decisively stamp his feet on this potentially viral cells of an affliction, President Obasanjo would rather order the rout of Odi and Zaki Biam.


I was one of the reporters who covered the blood-curdling news of the amputation of Jangebe, the first victim of the politicization of Islam, in Gusau, Zamfara State in 1999. On October 27 of that year, Ahmed Sani Yerima, as governor, dared Obasanjo and introduced the Sharia law. The eleven other states in northern Nigeria who parade majority Muslim populations, immediately followed suit, regardless of the stipulations of the Nigerian constitution which stated that Nigeria is not a religious state. Obasanjo had the renown of the warrior, Morilewa who Odolaye Aremu sang his panegyrics as “Òtagììrì p’egbèje ènìyàn” - one who, with the clinical sprint of a tiger, eliminates 140 people at a go.


In this instance, however, because he wanted to be politically correct and didn’t want to hurt the north, Obasanjo became too feeble to stop the north. There were vehement protests everywhere against the move, including riots, leading to several deaths. Yet, Obasanjo was too busy demolishing towns where policemen and soldiers got killed to bother about this stoked national fire.


Yes, since 1960, there had been calls for Northern Nigeria to return to the Sharia, which is a way of life of Muslims. Reference was made to its seamless practice in the Sokoto Caliphate and Kanem-Bornu empire before the British colonial rule of the 19th and 20th centuries. Yes, this empire prospered tremendously under Sharia and the people wanted a return to “the glory of former times". Were southern Nigeria to seek a return to “the old glory” of the buoyant Oyo empire, it could also have advocated for this movement backwards to move forward. Moving backwards to the Oyo empire would have meant a wholesale reproduction of the draconian laws and the barbaric precepts of kings seizing women that caught their fancies, which were not in consonance with modernity.  Beheading of opponents to the king’s command would also have come with the broth. However, since the introduction of the criminal Sharia laws into the penal laws of the 12 northern states in 2000, Northern Nigeria has remained backward, more existentially challenged ever, while its political leaders use Sharia as a draw-card for votes.


Boko Haram indeed sidled into Nigeria under the veil of Islam. On July 26, 2009, under Yar’Adua, this Islamist group launched an attack on a police station in Bauchi State where over 50 people were killed and hundreds injured. The firefight had erupted when 70 members of the Islamist sect, armed with grenades and small arms, launched an offensive.

Under Jonathan, who literally threw his hands up in surrender, and Buhari, whose amorphous anger against the Islamist group was undisguisable, the insurgents became such a hydra whose taming was a huge challenge.


Now, Nigeria has come to the valley of decision. An untrained child would receive cudgel training outside their father’s compound. Donald Trump has come with his disgraceful cudgel for Nigeria. As usual, Nigerians are hiding behind a finger. The almost 26 years of leadership hypocrisy, politicizing of faith, ineptitude, abetment of mass killings of Nigerians, all in the name of looking good in the sight of northern voters, have come full throttle. It reminds me of Peter Tosh, the iconoclast Jamaican reggae musician, warning, in his No Way track, that, “Nobody feel no way/It's coming close to payday I say…/Everyman get paid a quota's work this day/Can I plant peas and reap rice/Can I plant cocoa and reap yam/Can I plant turnip and reap tomato/Can I plant breadfruit and reap potato?”


Nigeria planted breadfruit over the past 26 years and desires to reap potato. The world endured the nuisance of our leaders for decades; it waited with bated breath to see whether renaissance would come from within. Now, a Sheriff for whom scruple, precis and diplomatese and the concept of national sovereignty are balderdash, is in the saddle. You may dislike the gruff of Trump as I do; in his CPC tag on Nigeria, you may see through a veil of seeking to please his American evangelicals and harvesting support at home, amid a shutdown of American government. However, you cannot denounce Trump’s statistics that brim with blood of our innocent compatriots. Their  only crime was being Nigerians practicing their faith.


In my piece entitled Ted Cruz’s genocide, blasphemy and Ida the slave boy (October 26, 2025) I laid bare the crux of Ted Cruz’s matter. The world cannot stand successive Nigerian governments’ hypocrisy any longer. Citizens have resigned themselves to their fates in the hands of their oppressive leaders. In the north, faiths other than Islam cannot be practiced without fear. In the name of blasphemy, many have had their heads decapitated and burnt. In the words of Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Hassan-Kukah in Lagos on Friday, “If Nigeria does not kill the dragon of religious extremism, it will be only a matter of time before we become a larger Gaza. Supremacists who hide under religion must have no place in our social and political life. The time to deal with this problem is now. The place to start is here.”

 

But, supremacists flourish like cedars of Lebanon here. The first thing to do is to face the fact that, the forefathers of insecurity in Nigeria - banditry, Fulani herdsmen, kidnapping etc - are Boko Haram and ISWAP. They kill, maim and destroy churches and mosques, in the name of a religion. Yes, we should agree that they are  ill-informed and unrepresentative of what Islam, the religion of peace, truly stands for. But, with the genealogy of Boko Haram and ISWAP that we know, it will then be very disingenuous and hypocritical to claim that the killings in Nigeria’s northern states are in equal proportion of both Christian and Muslim adherents. 

 

In the figures they gave of casualty of Boko Haram and ISWAP’s genocidal rout, Trump, Cruz and others spearheading this genocide claim on Nigerian Christians cannot be wrong. They may be wrong on the functionality that the grim statistics serve for them. If and when the Islamists strike, not only do they shout “Allahu Akbar,” a census of opinions of victims in northern Nigeria would reveal that their killings tilt more towards Christians and the Kafir Muslims who the insurgents see as no better than Christians.

 

I believe Tinubu can rout the Islamists. He stands at a tangential point to do this due to his syncretist background of being both Christian and Muslim, by birth and marriage. Trump’s irascibility is a wake-up call on Aso Rock. It is also a blessing to Nigeria. We don’t want America to storm Nigeria with her missiles. We want Trump to make Tinubu bend over backwards to smoke out those bloodsucking animals and their apologists off our land. Tinubu can do it if he blinds his eyes to the enticing pie of a second term re-election. To do this, he must heed the clarion call in the Ola Rotimi proverb which says that, “When an elder sees a mudskipper, he must not afterwards say it was a crocodile”.


Tinubu must first dismantle the tyrannical walls of political Sharia in Northern Nigeria. In doing this, he will be calling the mudskipper its real names. Then, he should flush out bloated vermin military generals who sell arms to Boko Haram and their allies in barracks who warehouse Intel reports for sale. Since we began voting trillions of Naira for fighting insurgency, military Generals and their civilian allies have stolen billions of our national patrimony yearly. I am sure America has their dossiers. She should smoke them out. America must then banish their feet from her precious soil where they love to move their blood-encrusted heists. It is in this that Trump can "attack fast, vicious, and sweet”. It will hit the insurgents hard, thereby bringing peace to the “cherished Christians".


Lastly, I love a tweet on X last week credited to military General, Ibrahim Babangida. He wrote: “During our time in the Nigerian Military, we don’t (sic) negotiate with terrorists or offer  any form of amnesty to radical groups. Those who pose(d) a significant threat (were) scheduled for court to see the judge, while those who pose(d) a much more dangerous (threat) are (sic) scheduled to see God.” It is high time the Tinubu government applied the same military strategy.




Source: Tribune

 

Festus Adedayo 



Greek philosopher, Socrates, may be the most famous Western figure of his time to have swallowed the poisonous plant's juice called hemlock. But, Africa, too had its. As he was sentenced to death in 399 BCE, Socrates was forced to drink this poisonous plant secretion which causes muscular paralysis, leading to respiratory failure. As he lay dying, having swallowed his own hemlock kept in a calabash bowl, the tragic life of Kurunmi, 19th century Yoruba military general and Yoruba race’s 10th Aare Ona Kakanfo, stands as a huge lesson for contemporary leaders. Though Kurunmi learned the lesson too late, its precepts are that, through decisions or indecision, leaders lead their people to avoidable bloodshed.


For Nigerian political leaders, the wailing regret of their actions and the consequences may be loud. As loud as they may seem, they are synonymous with the proverbial wails of the killed and grilled Okete, the pouched rat. As Bola Tinubu, the latest version of Aso Rock dwellers, seeks solace from an impending Donald Trump shellacking, the rat stands as symbolism of leadership in Nigeria in the last 26 years.  While alive, Okete countermanded every counsel for him to be circumspect. He condemned it as possessing nil substance. At death, however, hoisted up on the grilling fire gauze by the woman who hangs venison for sale, Okete raised his hands up in a post-mortem surrender.


If irascible Donald Trump eventually attacks Nigeria as he has been roaring to do in the past one week or thereabout, Nigerians have their leaders of the 4th Republic to blame. If this happens, one historical narrative often deployed as a fitting recollection of such invasion is the story of Kurunmi, one of the governors of the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Atiba. He was domiciled in Ijaiye. Kurunmi’s point of departure from Alaafin Atiba was the monarch’s decision to tamper with the ancient constitution which proclaims that the crown prince of the empire must die with his father, the Alaafin. By shielding Prince Adelu from death, Kurunmi was furious with the Alaafin.  


In the infamous Ijaiye war with Ibadan, Kurunmi lost all. His warlords’ stubborn insistence on crossing River Ose was one of the first steps to spell a monumental disaster for the Ijaiye warriors. They all perished inside the river.  Kurunmi lost Iwawun which came to him as a chilling news. The generalissimo was contemptuous of Ibadan’s military might, having earlier defeated the people in the battle of Odogido. He derogatorily called Ibadan “bush goats” and “horses full of muscles, small in sense.” The Basorun Ogunmola warriors had to fight to the last pint of their blood to reclaim their pride. In the process, they demonstrated to Kurunmi that they had huge sense and possessed sterner military prowess.


As he mobilized to fight Ibadan, Kurunmi sent emissaries far and wide to seek support for his war campaign. He got the buy-in of the Egba tribe, among others. On one of such expeditions, Ibadan waylaid his emissaries to the Emir of Ilorin and killed 19 of them. By the time the battle ended, Ijaiye suffered such huge fatalities that is today a legend in defeats in warfare. Five of Kurunmi’s children were killed by Ibadan, including Arawole, his son, whose decapitated and blood-enveloped head, when presented to him in Ijaiye, unmistakably told Kurunmi that the battle was indeed over.


When the poison’s pang meandered through his entrails with deathly searing pain, Kurunmi cursed his remaining generals, Mosadiwin and Abogunrin. The curse would assume its potency, he pronounced, if they did not inter him immediately but allow “my body stay(s) here for the vultures of Ibadan to peck at… if my skull serves as drinking cup for Adelu.” His last words as he committed suicide, was, “When a leader of men has led his people to disaster, and what remains of his present life is but a shadow of his proud past, then it is time to be leader no more.”


So many historical accounts of Kurunmi’s reign revealed his kind of leadership. Richard Henry Stone, an American representative of the Southern Baptist convention on a missionary expedition to Africa in the 19th century did this. In a chapter in his biography entitled In Africa’s Forest and Jungle or Six Years Among the Yorubans, he dedicated a chapter to Kurunmi which he entitled “An African despot.” In it, he wrote of his encounter with this dreaded military general thus: “He was haughty, despotic, ambitious and cruel… he was also firm, just and reasonable on most occasions. I never saw better order anywhere than I saw in Ejahyay (Ijaiye) while Areh (Aare) was its ruler. But he was a bloody usurper. When he was a young man, he was a notorious free-booter and slave hunter. With a number of followers, who had attached themselves to his fortunes, he would go out from Ejahyay into some distant province on predatory excursions. By kidnapping in the farms and by plundering caravans, he became rich and powerful.”


The above earlier excerpts were the result of a literary, though fictional re-calibration of what was left of the true but tragic life of Kurunmi, one of Yorubaland’s most famous war generals. Written by Professor Ola Rotimi in his epic drama, Kurunmi, Rotimi also characterized Kurunmi as a great military leader and war general whose fatal ending came as a result of a leadership Achilles’ heel. It is, taking others for granted. Like many contemporary leaders, Kurunmi faced internal strife within Ijaiye and external threats from imperial powers who wanted him subjugated. The rampaging Fulani forces were one of them. Alaafin Atiba too barely tolerated him. Rotimi used this play to showcase Kurunmi’s martial prowess in the face of attacks and how the conflict within the Oyo empire eventually consumed him.


In the days of yore, in centuries that preceded the advent of colonial rule, vile comments against a people, the type of which was recently credited to American president, Donald Trump, were enough to provoke a war. Kurunmi said as much against the Ibadan and provoked their anger. “Bush goats” and “horses full of muscles, small in sense” were as villainous as "the now disgraced country" of Trump’s description of Nigeria. The disgrace isn’t that it was coming from the leader of another country; the disgrace is that Nigerian leaders are actually disgraceful. They are the proverbial self-advertizing ripe fruits of an orange tree who invite stones and wood-pummeling on the mother tree. From Olusegun Obasanjo, to Umaru Yar’Adua, Goodluck Jonathan, Muhammadu Buhari and now to Bola Tinubu, Nigerian leaders of the Fourth Republic have left their food plates unwashed and have invited Trump, the green fly, to feast on their failures.


When Boko Haram insurgency began under Modu Ali Sheriff as governor of Borno State, Obasanjo was in the saddle. While holding court in Maiduguri, on July 28, 2002, Mohammed Yusuf, founder of the dreaded Islamist organization and its spiritual leader, got surrounded by Nigerian military troops. They enveloped the sect members and arrested Yusuff two days after. Captured by the military in that expedition, Yusuf was taken to custody of the police where, for fear that he could name his sponsors in government, Yusuff was summarily executed outside of the police headquarters. Later on, some aides of the Governor Sheriff, and even the governor himself, were alleged to be in cahoots with Yusuff. Rather than decisively stamp his feet on this potentially viral cells of an affliction, President Obasanjo would rather order the rout of Odi and Zaki Biam.


I was one of the reporters who covered the blood-curdling news of the amputation of Jangebe, the first victim of the politicization of Islam, in Gusau, Zamfara State in 1999. On October 27 of that year, Ahmed Sani Yerima, as governor, dared Obasanjo and introduced the Sharia law. The eleven other states in northern Nigeria who parade majority Muslim populations, immediately followed suit, regardless of the stipulations of the Nigerian constitution which stated that Nigeria is not a religious state. Obasanjo had the renown of the warrior, Morilewa who Odolaye Aremu sang his panegyrics as “Òtagììrì p’egbèje ènìyàn” - one who, with the clinical sprint of a tiger, eliminates 140 people at a go.


In this instance, however, because he wanted to be politically correct and didn’t want to hurt the north, Obasanjo became too feeble to stop the north. There were vehement protests everywhere against the move, including riots, leading to several deaths. Yet, Obasanjo was too busy demolishing towns where policemen and soldiers got killed to bother about this stoked national fire.


Yes, since 1960, there had been calls for Northern Nigeria to return to the Sharia, which is a way of life of Muslims. Reference was made to its seamless practice in the Sokoto Caliphate and Kanem-Bornu empire before the British colonial rule of the 19th and 20th centuries. Yes, this empire prospered tremendously under Sharia and the people wanted a return to “the glory of former times". Were southern Nigeria to seek a return to “the old glory” of the buoyant Oyo empire, it could also have advocated for this movement backwards to move forward. Moving backwards to the Oyo empire would have meant a wholesale reproduction of the draconian laws and the barbaric precepts of kings seizing women that caught their fancies, which were not in consonance with modernity.  Beheading of opponents to the king’s command would also have come with the broth. However, since the introduction of the criminal Sharia laws into the penal laws of the 12 northern states in 2000, Northern Nigeria has remained backward, more existentially challenged ever, while its political leaders use Sharia as a draw-card for votes.


Boko Haram indeed sidled into Nigeria under the veil of Islam. On July 26, 2009, under Yar’Adua, this Islamist group launched an attack on a police station in Bauchi State where over 50 people were killed and hundreds injured. The firefight had erupted when 70 members of the Islamist sect, armed with grenades and small arms, launched an offensive.

Under Jonathan, who literally threw his hands up in surrender, and Buhari, whose amorphous anger against the Islamist group was undisguisable, the insurgents became such a hydra whose taming was a huge challenge.


Now, Nigeria has come to the valley of decision. An untrained child would receive cudgel training outside their father’s compound. Donald Trump has come with his disgraceful cudgel for Nigeria. As usual, Nigerians are hiding behind a finger. The almost 26 years of leadership hypocrisy, politicizing of faith, ineptitude, abetment of mass killings of Nigerians, all in the name of looking good in the sight of northern voters, have come full throttle. It reminds me of Peter Tosh, the iconoclast Jamaican reggae musician, warning, in his No Way track, that, “Nobody feel no way/It's coming close to payday I say…/Everyman get paid a quota's work this day/Can I plant peas and reap rice/Can I plant cocoa and reap yam/Can I plant turnip and reap tomato/Can I plant breadfruit and reap potato?”


Nigeria planted breadfruit over the past 26 years and desires to reap potato. The world endured the nuisance of our leaders for decades; it waited with bated breath to see whether renaissance would come from within. Now, a Sheriff for whom scruple, precis and diplomatese and the concept of national sovereignty are balderdash, is in the saddle. You may dislike the gruff of Trump as I do; in his CPC tag on Nigeria, you may see through a veil of seeking to please his American evangelicals and harvesting support at home, amid a shutdown of American government. However, you cannot denounce Trump’s statistics that brim with blood of our innocent compatriots. Their  only crime was being Nigerians practicing their faith.


In my piece entitled Ted Cruz’s genocide, blasphemy and Ida the slave boy (October 26, 2025) I laid bare the crux of Ted Cruz’s matter. The world cannot stand successive Nigerian governments’ hypocrisy any longer. Citizens have resigned themselves to their fates in the hands of their oppressive leaders. In the north, faiths other than Islam cannot be practiced without fear. In the name of blasphemy, many have had their heads decapitated and burnt. In the words of Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Mathew Hassan-Kukah in Lagos on Friday, “If Nigeria does not kill the dragon of religious extremism, it will be only a matter of time before we become a larger Gaza. Supremacists who hide under religion must have no place in our social and political life. The time to deal with this problem is now. The place to start is here.”

 

But, supremacists flourish like cedars of Lebanon here. The first thing to do is to face the fact that, the forefathers of insecurity in Nigeria - banditry, Fulani herdsmen, kidnapping etc - are Boko Haram and ISWAP. They kill, maim and destroy churches and mosques, in the name of a religion. Yes, we should agree that they are  ill-informed and unrepresentative of what Islam, the religion of peace, truly stands for. But, with the genealogy of Boko Haram and ISWAP that we know, it will then be very disingenuous and hypocritical to claim that the killings in Nigeria’s northern states are in equal proportion of both Christian and Muslim adherents. 

 

In the figures they gave of casualty of Boko Haram and ISWAP’s genocidal rout, Trump, Cruz and others spearheading this genocide claim on Nigerian Christians cannot be wrong. They may be wrong on the functionality that the grim statistics serve for them. If and when the Islamists strike, not only do they shout “Allahu Akbar,” a census of opinions of victims in northern Nigeria would reveal that their killings tilt more towards Christians and the Kafir Muslims who the insurgents see as no better than Christians.

 

I believe Tinubu can rout the Islamists. He stands at a tangential point to do this due to his syncretist background of being both Christian and Muslim, by birth and marriage. Trump’s irascibility is a wake-up call on Aso Rock. It is also a blessing to Nigeria. We don’t want America to storm Nigeria with her missiles. We want Trump to make Tinubu bend over backwards to smoke out those bloodsucking animals and their apologists off our land. Tinubu can do it if he blinds his eyes to the enticing pie of a second term re-election. To do this, he must heed the clarion call in the Ola Rotimi proverb which says that, “When an elder sees a mudskipper, he must not afterwards say it was a crocodile”.


Tinubu must first dismantle the tyrannical walls of political Sharia in Northern Nigeria. In doing this, he will be calling the mudskipper its real names. Then, he should flush out bloated vermin military generals who sell arms to Boko Haram and their allies in barracks who warehouse Intel reports for sale. Since we began voting trillions of Naira for fighting insurgency, military Generals and their civilian allies have stolen billions of our national patrimony yearly. I am sure America has their dossiers. She should smoke them out. America must then banish their feet from her precious soil where they love to move their blood-encrusted heists. It is in this that Trump can "attack fast, vicious, and sweet”. It will hit the insurgents hard, thereby bringing peace to the “cherished Christians".


Lastly, I love a tweet on X last week credited to military General, Ibrahim Babangida. He wrote: “During our time in the Nigerian Military, we don’t (sic) negotiate with terrorists or offer  any form of amnesty to radical groups. Those who pose(d) a significant threat (were) scheduled for court to see the judge, while those who pose(d) a much more dangerous (threat) are (sic) scheduled to see God.” It is high time the Tinubu government applied the same military strategy.




Source: Tribune

Christian Genocide: Donald Trump drops another explosive statement Says He has just approved Tinubu's Request For US To Invade Nigeria

Christian Genocide: Donald Trump drops another explosive statement Says He has just approved Tinubu's Request For US To Invade Nigeria


United States president Donald Trump has said Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Was the One Who Reported Christian Killing in 2014 — I’ve Just Approved His Own Petition!”  “Tinubu Asked the White House to Invade Nigeria in 2014 Over Christian killings — I’ve Just Approved His Own Request Under His Government!”


 Trump has dropped explosive statement, revealing that Nigeria’s current president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, once petitioned the White House in 2014, accusing the then Nigerian government of committing Genocide against Christians in Nigeria.


Trump said, “In 2014, Tinubu and his APC people submitted a petition to the White House, saying Christians were being k!||ed in Nigeria — a Christian genoc!de. They begged America to act. I’ve just approved that same request — under Tinubu’s own government. Isn’t that something?”


He continued, “It’s funny. The same man who cried to us for help back then is now sitting in the same seat he accused of genocide. And guess what? I just signed the very petition he brought. That’s justice, that’s full circle.”


Trump, speaking with his usual boldness, said:

“In 2014, Tinubu and his people begged the United States to invade Nigeria — they said Christians were being slaughtered and the government was doing nothing. They asked us to step in, and guess what? I’ve just approved that same request — but now, under Tinubu’s own government.”


Trump added with his trademark tone, “I know everything. I have the documents. We don’t forget. When America moves, the world feels it. Nigeria is about to learn that again.”


 “Tinubu started this in 2014. Now he’s going to see how it ends — big time,” Trump concluded.


Under the APC leaderships from Buhari till date, Nigeria government condoned Terrorists. More than ever, insecurity has taken many fronts, Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits, Fulani herdsmen and kidnapping for ransoms. The primary targets of these Terrorists are Christians, their churches and their communities for total extermination 


The Tinubu's led APC pro-terrorist government must end the killings, sanitized the Nigerian Army and security apparatus of the state, flushed out Terrorist elements sabotaging the genuine efforts to conquered the insurgency.


Prolonged phantom war against terrorists has become a multi billion dollars business for  the top politicians and political leaders in government, top military hierarchies, certain traditional and religion leaders in the country.




United States president Donald Trump has said Nigerian President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Was the One Who Reported Christian Killing in 2014 — I’ve Just Approved His Own Petition!”  “Tinubu Asked the White House to Invade Nigeria in 2014 Over Christian killings — I’ve Just Approved His Own Request Under His Government!”


 Trump has dropped explosive statement, revealing that Nigeria’s current president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, once petitioned the White House in 2014, accusing the then Nigerian government of committing Genocide against Christians in Nigeria.


Trump said, “In 2014, Tinubu and his APC people submitted a petition to the White House, saying Christians were being k!||ed in Nigeria — a Christian genoc!de. They begged America to act. I’ve just approved that same request — under Tinubu’s own government. Isn’t that something?”


He continued, “It’s funny. The same man who cried to us for help back then is now sitting in the same seat he accused of genocide. And guess what? I just signed the very petition he brought. That’s justice, that’s full circle.”


Trump, speaking with his usual boldness, said:

“In 2014, Tinubu and his people begged the United States to invade Nigeria — they said Christians were being slaughtered and the government was doing nothing. They asked us to step in, and guess what? I’ve just approved that same request — but now, under Tinubu’s own government.”


Trump added with his trademark tone, “I know everything. I have the documents. We don’t forget. When America moves, the world feels it. Nigeria is about to learn that again.”


 “Tinubu started this in 2014. Now he’s going to see how it ends — big time,” Trump concluded.


Under the APC leaderships from Buhari till date, Nigeria government condoned Terrorists. More than ever, insecurity has taken many fronts, Boko Haram, ISWAP, bandits, Fulani herdsmen and kidnapping for ransoms. The primary targets of these Terrorists are Christians, their churches and their communities for total extermination 


The Tinubu's led APC pro-terrorist government must end the killings, sanitized the Nigerian Army and security apparatus of the state, flushed out Terrorist elements sabotaging the genuine efforts to conquered the insurgency.


Prolonged phantom war against terrorists has become a multi billion dollars business for  the top politicians and political leaders in government, top military hierarchies, certain traditional and religion leaders in the country.



FROM THE ARCHIVES: Former APC Minister Of Information Lai Mohammed Confirmed Christian Genocide in Nigeria

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Former APC Minister Of Information Lai Mohammed Confirmed Christian Genocide in Nigeria

APC government From Major Gen Muhammadu Bhuari to Bola Ahmed Tinubu condoned Terrorists 








*FROM THE ARCHIVES*
Internet doesn't forget or forgive!

Listen to Nigeria Minister of information under a previous APC government in 2023. Why deny or debate what we once admitted/initiated, and the US now only corroborated?






 

APC government From Major Gen Muhammadu Bhuari to Bola Ahmed Tinubu condoned Terrorists 








*FROM THE ARCHIVES*
Internet doesn't forget or forgive!

Listen to Nigeria Minister of information under a previous APC government in 2023. Why deny or debate what we once admitted/initiated, and the US now only corroborated?






 

Invasion of Nigeria: China will not dictate for US, says Moore

Invasion of Nigeria: China will not dictate for US, says Moore


US Rep. Riley Moore has said the United States President Donald Trump was absolutely right to defend brothers and sisters in Christ who are suffering horrific persecution in the hands of organized Jihadists in Nigeria 

Moore added,  even martyrdom, for their faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

According to him, China will not dictate America's foreign policy , and US will not be lectured to by a Communist autocracy that recently arrested 30 Christian pastors for their faith and throws ethnic minorities in concentration camps.


Earlier, the People's Republic of China has expressed strong support for Bola Tinubu's led APC federal government administration, while warning against foreign interference in Nigeria's internal affairs, following a recent threat by President Trump.

 In Beijing on Tuesday, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, stated that China firmly opposes the use of religion or human rights as a pretext to meddle in the domestic affairs of sovereign nations.

 "As Nigeria's comprehensive strategic partner, China firmly supports the Nigerian government in leading its people on the development path suited to its national conditions," Mao said. 

"China firmly opposes any country using religion and human rights as an excuse to interfere in other countries' internal affairs, and threatening other countries with sanctions and force," she added. 

Her comments were made in response to Trump's recent remarks, which threatened possible military action against Nigeria over alleged persecution of Christians — a claim the Nigerian government has strongly denied.

 The U.S. State Department redesignated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) on October 31, citing alleged mass killings of Christians, which sparked diplomatic tension between both nations. 

Ning's statement is seen as a show of solidarity with Nigeria as the diplomatic tension between the West African country and the United States intensifies.

Nigerian citizens have suffered deaths in the hands of Boko Haram, ISWAP terrorists, Fulani herdsmen, bandits and many other armed bandits kidnapping for ransoms. Going by the pedigree and capacity of the dreaded Nigerian Army, insurgents of any magnitude may never survive this long without internal political and foreign so support for the terrorists.

It is on records that APC rode to power in 2015 on the pretense electoral promises to end insecurities posted by Boko Haram and hunger in the country but had since been complicated with emergency of many and more terrors group s like Fulani herdsmen, bandits killings and commiting genocidal crimes in many states of the Nigerian federation.

Among the States where killings and displacement are happening include Borno, the epicenter of the Boko Haram/ ISWAP activities, Yobe, Sokoto, Kano, Zamfara, Kastina, Niger, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna and recently Kwara State.

There have been bandits) Fulani herdsmen attacks in a Catholic church in Owo Ondo state and Herdsmen attacks at Igangan in OYo State in the Southwest of the country.


Christians have been the primary targets of the Jihadists in the country and genocide ate been committed in order to take over their lands.

Fir late president Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari in his Fulanistic agenda introduced different bills into the national assembly aimed to give passage of lands to the Fulani herdsmen that have adopted Nigeria as their final and permanent home but failed.

APC government of the country is openly considered a pro Terrorists, Jihadists and banditry one and the government have been negotiating with the criminals who are generally believed to have been brought into the country for the sake of any infavourabke eventuality of the 2015 general elections which eventually enthroned APC administration since then.






US Rep. Riley Moore has said the United States President Donald Trump was absolutely right to defend brothers and sisters in Christ who are suffering horrific persecution in the hands of organized Jihadists in Nigeria 

Moore added,  even martyrdom, for their faith in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

According to him, China will not dictate America's foreign policy , and US will not be lectured to by a Communist autocracy that recently arrested 30 Christian pastors for their faith and throws ethnic minorities in concentration camps.


Earlier, the People's Republic of China has expressed strong support for Bola Tinubu's led APC federal government administration, while warning against foreign interference in Nigeria's internal affairs, following a recent threat by President Trump.

 In Beijing on Tuesday, China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Mao Ning, stated that China firmly opposes the use of religion or human rights as a pretext to meddle in the domestic affairs of sovereign nations.

 "As Nigeria's comprehensive strategic partner, China firmly supports the Nigerian government in leading its people on the development path suited to its national conditions," Mao said. 

"China firmly opposes any country using religion and human rights as an excuse to interfere in other countries' internal affairs, and threatening other countries with sanctions and force," she added. 

Her comments were made in response to Trump's recent remarks, which threatened possible military action against Nigeria over alleged persecution of Christians — a claim the Nigerian government has strongly denied.

 The U.S. State Department redesignated Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) on October 31, citing alleged mass killings of Christians, which sparked diplomatic tension between both nations. 

Ning's statement is seen as a show of solidarity with Nigeria as the diplomatic tension between the West African country and the United States intensifies.

Nigerian citizens have suffered deaths in the hands of Boko Haram, ISWAP terrorists, Fulani herdsmen, bandits and many other armed bandits kidnapping for ransoms. Going by the pedigree and capacity of the dreaded Nigerian Army, insurgents of any magnitude may never survive this long without internal political and foreign so support for the terrorists.

It is on records that APC rode to power in 2015 on the pretense electoral promises to end insecurities posted by Boko Haram and hunger in the country but had since been complicated with emergency of many and more terrors group s like Fulani herdsmen, bandits killings and commiting genocidal crimes in many states of the Nigerian federation.

Among the States where killings and displacement are happening include Borno, the epicenter of the Boko Haram/ ISWAP activities, Yobe, Sokoto, Kano, Zamfara, Kastina, Niger, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kaduna and recently Kwara State.

There have been bandits) Fulani herdsmen attacks in a Catholic church in Owo Ondo state and Herdsmen attacks at Igangan in OYo State in the Southwest of the country.


Christians have been the primary targets of the Jihadists in the country and genocide ate been committed in order to take over their lands.

Fir late president Major Gen Muhammadu Buhari in his Fulanistic agenda introduced different bills into the national assembly aimed to give passage of lands to the Fulani herdsmen that have adopted Nigeria as their final and permanent home but failed.

APC government of the country is openly considered a pro Terrorists, Jihadists and banditry one and the government have been negotiating with the criminals who are generally believed to have been brought into the country for the sake of any infavourabke eventuality of the 2015 general elections which eventually enthroned APC administration since then.





There's Genocide In Borno State, Boko Haram/ISWAP Reduces 176 Churches to 28, says Gwoza Christian Community Association

There's Genocide In Borno State, Boko Haram/ISWAP Reduces 176 Churches to 28, says Gwoza Christian Community Association




Against the Nigerian Government denials of any genocide in the country, the Gwoza Christian Community Association in Borno Borno State has insisted that there is an ongoing genocide being perpetrated against them by Boko Haram/ ISWAP terrorists 

The community Christian association, in a statement jointly signed by Rev. Ayuba John Bassa and Rev. Filibus K. Goma, national coordinator and chairman of the Board of Trustees respectively, said they had documentary evidence to back their claims.

According to the statement, association said: "When a Senator recently told Channels TV that there is no persecution or genocide against Christians in Borno — particularly in Gwoza — he denied the lived reality of thousands of people he does not know. We are indigenous Christians of Gwoza Local Government Area. What follows is not hearsay or political rhetoric; it is our testimony — a painful record of loss, displacement and erasure.

"Gwoza once had a thriving Christian presence. Before the insurgency, there were more than 176 large church buildings across the local government. Today, 148 of those churches were burnt and lie in ruins. Entire Christian neighbourhoods in Gwoza East and West were flattened; in many places, every Christian home was destroyed."

Reeling out other documented facts, the association further argued, "The human toll and destruction are detailed and specific. In Gava-West alone, 74 towns and villages were sacked, 36,946 families were dispersed, 99 churches were destroyed, and 292 people were killed in September 2013. In Attagara, 13 churches were destroyed, 1,738 families displaced and 140 Christians killed by 3 June 2014. By 9 August 2014, 2,203 Christian houses and 28 churches were destroyed, and 102 Christians — including three pastors — were killed in Gwoza town, Kamba and Ghraza. The total pastors killed by insurgents in Gwoza local government was 12. In other Christian towns within Gwoza, such as Ngoshe, Bokko, Pulka, Limankara, Ngoshe-sama, Barawa and Gava-North, both the loss of life and the physical destruction exceeded local expectations."

It also said that the human cost is staggering . About 107,000 Gwoza Christians are scattered in 27 internally displaced persons camps across seven Nigerian states and in the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon, while almost 50,000 are squatting with relatives in towns and cities across Nigeria.

The association argued that this pattern — the destruction of churches, removal of Christian families, and official silence or inaction — raises an unavoidable question: Is there a systematic attempt to erase Christians and their heritage from Gwoza?

Concluding, it blamed the leadership of Christians for being too silent and compromised, while it appealed for thorough investigation to ascertain their outcry:

"We plead for truth, accountability and action. To CAN and all Christian bodies: your people are suffering. Will you continue to stand silent? Will you trade the lives and dignity of the displaced for political appointments or other gains?

"To the Nigerian government: fulfil your constitutional duty to protect every citizen irrespective of faith. Conduct independent investigations, prosecute those responsible for targeted attacks, ensure equitable reconstruction and restore the right of displaced Christians to return home with dignity and security.

"To Christians and people of conscience worldwide: pray, speak, advocate and act. Survivors in camps and ruined communities in Gwoza need more than sympathy — they need sustained attention, protection and a pathway to rebuild their lives and heritage.

"This is our testimony as indigenous Christians from Gwoza. The blood and ruins cry out for justice. We have endured atrocities for too long, hoping things would change. They have not. The time for denial and silence is over. Please talk about it until the world knows."





Source: Saharareporter 



Against the Nigerian Government denials of any genocide in the country, the Gwoza Christian Community Association in Borno Borno State has insisted that there is an ongoing genocide being perpetrated against them by Boko Haram/ ISWAP terrorists 

The community Christian association, in a statement jointly signed by Rev. Ayuba John Bassa and Rev. Filibus K. Goma, national coordinator and chairman of the Board of Trustees respectively, said they had documentary evidence to back their claims.

According to the statement, association said: "When a Senator recently told Channels TV that there is no persecution or genocide against Christians in Borno — particularly in Gwoza — he denied the lived reality of thousands of people he does not know. We are indigenous Christians of Gwoza Local Government Area. What follows is not hearsay or political rhetoric; it is our testimony — a painful record of loss, displacement and erasure.

"Gwoza once had a thriving Christian presence. Before the insurgency, there were more than 176 large church buildings across the local government. Today, 148 of those churches were burnt and lie in ruins. Entire Christian neighbourhoods in Gwoza East and West were flattened; in many places, every Christian home was destroyed."

Reeling out other documented facts, the association further argued, "The human toll and destruction are detailed and specific. In Gava-West alone, 74 towns and villages were sacked, 36,946 families were dispersed, 99 churches were destroyed, and 292 people were killed in September 2013. In Attagara, 13 churches were destroyed, 1,738 families displaced and 140 Christians killed by 3 June 2014. By 9 August 2014, 2,203 Christian houses and 28 churches were destroyed, and 102 Christians — including three pastors — were killed in Gwoza town, Kamba and Ghraza. The total pastors killed by insurgents in Gwoza local government was 12. In other Christian towns within Gwoza, such as Ngoshe, Bokko, Pulka, Limankara, Ngoshe-sama, Barawa and Gava-North, both the loss of life and the physical destruction exceeded local expectations."

It also said that the human cost is staggering . About 107,000 Gwoza Christians are scattered in 27 internally displaced persons camps across seven Nigerian states and in the Minawao refugee camp in Cameroon, while almost 50,000 are squatting with relatives in towns and cities across Nigeria.

The association argued that this pattern — the destruction of churches, removal of Christian families, and official silence or inaction — raises an unavoidable question: Is there a systematic attempt to erase Christians and their heritage from Gwoza?

Concluding, it blamed the leadership of Christians for being too silent and compromised, while it appealed for thorough investigation to ascertain their outcry:

"We plead for truth, accountability and action. To CAN and all Christian bodies: your people are suffering. Will you continue to stand silent? Will you trade the lives and dignity of the displaced for political appointments or other gains?

"To the Nigerian government: fulfil your constitutional duty to protect every citizen irrespective of faith. Conduct independent investigations, prosecute those responsible for targeted attacks, ensure equitable reconstruction and restore the right of displaced Christians to return home with dignity and security.

"To Christians and people of conscience worldwide: pray, speak, advocate and act. Survivors in camps and ruined communities in Gwoza need more than sympathy — they need sustained attention, protection and a pathway to rebuild their lives and heritage.

"This is our testimony as indigenous Christians from Gwoza. The blood and ruins cry out for justice. We have endured atrocities for too long, hoping things would change. They have not. The time for denial and silence is over. Please talk about it until the world knows."





Source: Saharareporter 

VIDEO: There's Christian Genocide In Nigeria, Maybe Tinubu led APC criminals should defend this

VIDEO: There's Christian Genocide In Nigeria, Maybe Tinubu led APC criminals should defend this

 


The documentary above is only in a community in Plateau State. Christian have been numerously terminated in Borno, Kastina, Benue state, Nasarawa , Sokoto Gombe and Kaduna states. Those girls kidnaped in Chibok community are all Christians. 
Whatever the name APC government called the terrorists groups, either Boko Haram, ISWAP , bandits, herdsmen or Criminals in kidnapping for ransoms, they are working on the same goal, extermination and capturing of the lands.





Listen to Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, Benue State, on 
his presentation before the US Congress.




 


The documentary above is only in a community in Plateau State. Christian have been numerously terminated in Borno, Kastina, Benue state, Nasarawa , Sokoto Gombe and Kaduna states. Those girls kidnaped in Chibok community are all Christians. 
Whatever the name APC government called the terrorists groups, either Boko Haram, ISWAP , bandits, herdsmen or Criminals in kidnapping for ransoms, they are working on the same goal, extermination and capturing of the lands.





Listen to Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the Catholic Diocese of Makurdi, Benue State, on 
his presentation before the US Congress.




Insecurity in Nigeria: Fans of the Romanian national football team Identify with Nigerian Christians ( Photos)

Insecurity in Nigeria: Fans of the Romanian national football team Identify with Nigerian Christians ( Photos)

 


'Defend Nigerian Christians'


Fans of the Romanian national football team unfurled a banner before their Worlld Cup Qualifier


 


'Defend Nigerian Christians'


Fans of the Romanian national football team unfurled a banner before their Worlld Cup Qualifier


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