Nigeria now ranks 6 out of 66 on the 2025 Global Terrorism Index and the index does not even take into In recent years, more Christians have been killed for their faith in Nigeria than in all other places only a small sample of the persecution in Nigeria.  attempts to forcibly Islamize Nigeria. Therefore, I urge Congress to recommend CPC re-designation for Nigeria.

Credit: Nigeria Premium Times Nigeria Genocide Emergency Alert December 2022 Nigeria is currently undergoing More people die in Nigeria every month than in Ukraine. The UNDP estimates that terrorists have killed over 350,000 people in Nigeria since 2009 . 300,000 were The US Ambassador to Nigeria and State Department deny the religious nature of the massacres, in which State Department should return Nigeria to its list of Countries of Particular Concern.

The growing security threat centered in Nasarawa has been noted alarm noted not only in Nigeria’s Middle Nasarawa is in Nigeria’s North-Central region, commonly referred to as the Middle Belt—a geographically recently become notorious as a haven for one dominant tribe, the Fulani, who number up to 10 million in Nigeria Troubled History, Strategic Location Map of Nigeria, showing middle Belt Region Credit: Google. James Iorzua Ayatse on Tuesday, July 29, 2025, told the visiting First Lady of Nigeria, Sen Oluremi Tinubu

1a082a89-39e3-45d9-a54a-06e7db50ab63 Nigeria Library Of Congress Country Overview Targeted Groups Perpetrators People Boko Haram ISWAP Fulani Jihadists Emergency Stage 9: Extermination, Stage 10: Denial Details Nigeria The death penalty is also in place, though not currently enforced, for homosexuality in Northern Nigeria Read Report Resources Ending Nigeria’s Herder-Farmer Crisis: The Livestock Reform Plan An Exit from Boko Assessing Nigeria’s Operation Safe Corridor Page last updated: 11/21/2025

Nigeria Country Overview Library Of Congress Targeted Groups Perpetrators Alert Status Genocide Stage People Boko Haram ISWAP Fulani Jihadists Emergency Stage 9: Extermination, Stage 10: Denial Details Nigeria The death penalty is also in place, though not currently enforced, for homosexuality in Northern Nigeria Read Report Page last updated: 11/21/2025 Resources Ending Nigeria’s Herder-Farmer Crisis: The Livestock Assessing Nigeria’s Operation Safe Corridor

< Back Nigeria Team Report: October 2025 Picture showing Shekau, former Boko Haram leader. mass killings Recent attacks attributed to Boko Haram continue to claim civilian lives in northeastern Nigeria marked by kidnappings, killings, and community terrorization, underline the continuing human cost of Nigeria Policy Responses to Nigeria’s Alleged Christian Genocide The persecution of Christian minorities in Nigeria Thus, religious conflict in Nigeria bares significantly more nuance than is given credit for, with ethnic