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.

With elections set for January, President Tinubu seeks to clamp down on kidnapping trend in northern Nigeria An estimated 600 worshippers were kidnapped at a mosque in northern Nigeria last week. By Al Jazeera Staff and Reuters Nigeria has launched a hunt for hundreds of people kidnapped from mosques the growing threat posed by mass abductions in northern Nigeria. However, “terror will not cow Nigeria,” the Nigerian president insisted.

By Mubarak Aliyu Abuja, Nigeria – In December 2025, Burkina Faso detained 11 Nigerian Air Force personnel The incident underscored the widening political divide between Nigeria and the three Sahelian countries “The influx of bandits from the AES into Nigeria is something that had been ongoing since Gaddafi was This made Nigeria a target.” “I hope that it will not go beyond where it has gone so far. Nigeria shares a long northern frontier with Niger.

Graphic credit: The Roys Report #EndTheSilence: Standing for Leah Sharibu and Nigeria’s Missing Christian Sharibu and the many Christian women and girls who remain missing, captive, or vulnerable to violence in Nigeria reminder of the ongoing violations of freedom of religion or belief facing vulnerable communities in Nigeria ISWAP) during an attack on the Government Girls’ Science and Technical College in Dapchi, Yobe State, Nigeria How You Can Help The crisis facing Christian women and girls in Nigeria requires sustained attention,

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

Credit: Ekani Okita By Segun Onibiyo (Makurdi) – “If Nigeria keeps refusing to name its internal enemies It’s a daily reality in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, particularly in Benue, Plateau, Kebbi, Kogi, Kaduna and Terkimbi, 38, is one of thousands of survivors of repeated massacres in Nigeria’s rural Middle Belt — Samson Ayokunle, former president of the Christian Association of Nigeria. From Iwili to Kaiama, from Barkin Ladi to Waje, Nigeria is bleeding.

Nigerian police have launched an investigation into the deaths of the miners, who were in the custody State, Nigeria, June 23, 2013. The governor of a central Nigerian state said 37 people suspected of being illegal miners died early Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago told reporters at a news conference in the state capital broadcast by Nigeria's Those who died were in the care of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC), which partners

Without accompanying reforms, the risk is that President Tinubu’s plan only makes Nigeria’s army bigger at the MNJTF military base, Sector 3 Headquarters, in Monguno, Borno state, Nigeria, on 5 July 2025. Rather than framing it as a long-planned response to Nigeria’s many worsening security challenges, Tinubu Regardless, the groundbreaking decision has the potential to make Nigeria more secure. And what opportunities does this expansion create for the Nigeria’s security assistance partners, such

Funeral for victims of a Boko Haram jihadist massacre credit: Al Jazeera Genocide in Nigeria 2025 By There are now 25 million Fulani across West Africa, 15 million in Nigeria.   the President of the American University in Nigeria. Nigeria has the largest population in Africa. Nigeria's population is doubling every twenty years.  By 2050, Nigeria will have more people than the United States.  The US can't abandon Nigeria.  

million people are registered to vote, but Tibesa, who fled into Cross River state in neighbouring Nigeria The vast majority of Nigeria’s eastern flank is with Cameroon. About 107,000 refugees have come into Nigeria from Cameroon alone, according to figures from the UNHCR Many Cameroonian refugees have integrated into life in neighbouring Nigeria, but long to return to their In 2024, the US funded approximately half of UNHCR’s budget in Nigeria.

undocumented immigration, in Johannesburg, South Africa, April 29, 2026 File Photo: Themba Hadebe/AP Nigeria of the anger has targeted, in particular, nationals from Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Malawi, as well as Nigeria File Photo: Themba Hadebe/AP Why is Nigeria’s government angry? She said this had damaged the bond the two countries have enjoyed since the solidarity Nigeria showed “Nigeria is not happy because Nigeria has sacrificed much for the South African independence struggle