by Kurt Nimmo, Global Research:
On the heels of its threat to invade Venezuela, the Trump administration has announced it plans to intervene in oil- and mineral-rich Nigeria, ostensibly in response to an alleged massacre of Christians.
“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians,” President Trump declared on his Truth social media, “the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, ‘guns-a-blazing,’ to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities… I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action” against the government of Bola Tinubu.
“If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our CHERISHED Christians!” the president continued. “ WARNING: THE NIGERIAN GOVERNMENT BETTER MOVE FAST!”
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Pete Hegseth, the “Secretary of War” (or conversely, the “CEO of War”), posted to X on November 1.
“The killing of innocent Christians in Nigeria—and anywhere—must end immediately. The Department of War is preparing for action. Either the Nigerian Government protects Christians, or we will kill the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” he wrote.
Senator Ted Cruz has introduced the Nigeria Religious Freedom Accountability Act of 2025. It proposes visa restrictions and asset freezes on Nigerian officials enforcing Sharia and blasphemy laws, in response to Trump’s designation of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern for religious persecution.
Nigerian Foreign Minister Yusuf Tuggar rejected the accusation and said the violence is the result of banditry, terrorism, and farmer-herder clashes between Muslims and Christians. Nigerian president Bola Tinubu went on X and insisted Nigeria safeguards the “freedom of religion and beliefs for all Nigerians” and is committed to working with the United States and international community on the “protection of communities of all faiths.”
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Other Nigerians, however, dispute the claim the violence is religious in nature. A former Nigerian Kaduna Central lawmaker, Senator Shehu Sani, said Trump was “misinformed by anarchists, lackeys and apprentices of neocolonialism” seeking to profit from division and discontent. Sani said on X that the killings and kidnappings in Nigeria were not driven by religion.
Religious Violence in Nigeria and West Africa
According to a report published by The Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa (ORFA), religious violence in Nigeria resulted in the loss of 55,910 lives over a four-year period, spanning from October 1, 2019, to September 30, 2023. These deaths were the result of 9,970 attacks, which encompassed civilian fatalities, deaths of “terror groups,” and casualties among the Nigerian Armed Forces. Among the total number of fatalities, 30,880 were civilians. Approximately 16,769 Christians, 6,235 Muslims, and 154 adherents of traditional African religions lost their lives. The religious affiliations of the remaining 7,722 victims remain unknown.
Fulani herdsmen, who are Sunni Muslim, are said responsible for the majority of the attacks, while “other terrorist groups” (primarily Boko Haram) are responsible for the remainder, according to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom. The Fulani, considered the largest nomadic ethnic group in the world, are largely adherents of Sufism, a form of Islamic mysticism that is prominent in west Africa and Sudan, and said to be instrumental in implementing Islamic rule. Faluni jihadism, according to the Human Rights Research Center, is more militant and deadly than that of Boko Harem.
