Being First National Zoom Lecture Series on Christian Genocide in Nigeria, Tuesday December 30^th 2025; 4:00 PM (Nigerian Time)

Lecturer:               

Dr. Nwankwo Tony Nwaezeigwe, BA Hon, MA, PhD, (Nig.) DD (HC)

President, International Coalition against Christian Genocide in Nigeria (ICAC-GEN); Odogwu of Ibusa

Email: nwaezeigwe.genocideafrica@gmail.com

1. Introduction

I bring to you all my most esteemed Christian patriots of the Federal Republic of Nigeria profound greetings from the good people of Republic of the Philippines, Southeast Asia.

The current state of Nigerian Christian gloomy experience as defined by undeniable Genocide perpetrated by State-supported Muslim terrorists under different names, impudent persecution, discrimination and alienation from Federal administration is likened to the Egyptian experience of Israelites under oppressive Pharaohs, in which Moses emerged as the liberator. This is the position President Donald Trump occupies today in the lives of Nigerian Christians in respect of his intervention to put an end to the heinous crime of Genocide against Christians in Nigeria.

This lecture was already fixed before the eventful day of December 25, 2025 American time, when our amiable President of the United States of America Donald J. Trump showered us with a special Christmas gift of air strikes against those killing our people for no other reason except for being Christians. It is in honor of this momentous act that I decided to change the title to, “Legitimatizing President Donald Trump’s Airstrike against Islamic Terrorists in Nigeria.”

One of the most memorable take-home gifts from President Donald J. Trump to Nigerian Christians from his statement on the recent airstrikes against Lakurawa terrorists in Sokoto State is the clear message that his action was predicated on the objective of ending Christian Genocide in Nigeria. This is a clear victory for Nigerian Christians against those who attempt to impose the false narrative that there is no Christian Genocide in Nigeria.

Those Christian leaders and Muslims who shamelessly incline towards this false narrative that because some Muslims were killed, the issue of Christian Genocide does not stand the test of the facts, have not first, informed us the evidence of Christians killing Muslims; second, the evidence of mass killing of Muslims by these Muslim terrorists; third, the evidence of Mosques destroyed by the same Islamic insurgents as in the case of multiple evidence of destroyed Churches and villages owned by Christians; fourth, the evidence of displaced Muslims from their ancestral homes occupied by Christian insurgents; and fifth, the meaning of Genocide as an international crime against humanity in respect of Muslims killing Christians in large numbers, against Muslims killing Muslims in exceptional circumstances. I think the Nigerian Government should be ashamed to still cling to the false narrative of no Christian Genocide in Nigeria.

My lecture today in addition to the introductory part, is anchored on seven hypothetical questions and their resulting narratives. Taking them seriatim, the first question is why should the Trump administration impose a blanket visa ban on Nigeria? The second is why should Sokoto State be the first place to be bombed?

The third question is why should America have to attack terrorists in Nigeria when Nigeria has her own jet-fighters and bombers and President Bola Tinubu is believd to be trusted by President Donald Trump? 

The fourth question is how far has Nigeria complied with the Provisions of the 28 September 2001 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 on Combating Terrorism?

The fifth question is does International humanitarian law under the principle of “the responsibility to protect” permit America to cross the boundaries of Nigeria’s sovereignty to intervene militarily?

The sixth question is how far do the actions of some Nigerian Christian leaders encourage or discourage Christian Genocide in Nigeria?

The seventh question which summarizes the conclusion is what are the cardinal demands of Nigerian Christians concerning the on-going genocide against them and the road-map to sustainable peace and security in Nigeria?

Let me begin by conveying on behalf of concerned Nigerian Christians our unqualified profound appreciation to the man who has once again brought back the lost glory of Christianity the world over; the man who has made America great once again as in the old times; the Moses of World Christendom and, the one and only unapologetic Christian President of the leading Christian nation of the World, President Donald J. Trump, for his timely, committed and unwavering intervention against the heinous crime of Genocide against defenseless Christians in Nigeria.

That Christmas-day precision air strike against Lakurawa Islamic terrorists in Sokoto State was the greatest Christmas gift to Nigerian Christians ever to come from the President of the United States of America since the inception of modern Nigeria. No American President could have done better. Concerned persecuted Nigerian Christians are proud of you, Mr. President Donald J. Trump.

To those of us who believe in Donald Trump since 2015, we have never been in doubt of his formidable ability to conquer the seemingly unconquerable; we have never been in doubt of his unwavering compassion to humanity and, we have never been in doubt of his celestial zeal in advancing the cause of peace founded on true Christianity in the world.

 

Most admirably important is President Trump’s electrifying team of Political egg-heads: Vice President J. D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Speaker of House Representatives Mike Johnson, FBI Director Kash Patel, White House Spokesperson Karoline Claire Leavitt and, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Todd Lyons, who are so logically coordinated with one mind and spirit in President Trump administration’s policy orientation and precision in delivery as if automated by the Holy Spirit.

 

My profound thanks equally go to the indomitable Lion of Judah reincarnate, the Prime Minister of the State of Israel, Bibi Benjamin Netanyahu for his recent call for the end of the on-going persecution and resultant genocide against Christians in Nigeria. Nigerian Christians are hopeful that with your characteristic common progressive mindset with President Donald Trump, more tangible actions will definitely come from you.

Let me state unequivocally that the fundamental reaction of Nigerian Christians, I mean the truly and fateful Nigerian Christians and, not the disciples of Judas Iscariot among them, to the indomitable President Donald Trump’s decision to carry out precision air strike against the Sokoto State-based Lakurawa Islamic terrorists on Christmas Day is that of unbound celebrations for  a divine-inspired intervention. The Holy Bible tells us in

Acts of the Apostles Chapter 16, verses 25-26 that:

 

“About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.Suddenly there was such a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once all the prison doors flew open, and everyone’s chains came loose.”

 

This is way Nigerian Christians see the current decision of the United States Government through the enviable President Donald Trump to intervene formidably to stop the on-going genocide against Nigerian Christians; as heralded by the Christmas Day air strike against Islamic terrorists. Indeed to some Nigerian Christians, the traditional Christian Boxing Day has been Christened “Bombing Day.”

Nigerian Christians and indeed the entire Christians of the world owe President Donald Trump unqualified gratitude for intervening to stop the on-going genocide against Christians in Nigeria. Nigerian Christians were once political orphans, but today, President Donald Trump has boldly stepped in as the foster-father of the persecuted Christians in Nigeria.

Like Moses addressing the Children of Israel before the mighty Red Sea as they were pursued by Pharaoh and the Egyptian army, as recorded inExodus Chapter 14, verse 13, President Donald Trump is saying to Nigerian Christians today, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.”  

Proverbs Chapter 29, verse 2 tells us that: “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice; But when a wicked man rules, the people groan.” Nigerian Christians have been groaning under wicked rulers; but today the righteous; the anointed, President Donald Trump, has come to rescue Nigerian Christians. Today, the persecuted Nigerian Christians are beginning to rejoice. And indeed they have every reason to rejoice because even the most powerful Islamic nations of the World depend on the Christian nation of United States of America for their national security.

It is important that we should be properly guided by first acknowledging that the crime of genocide against Nigerian Christians has never been strange to President Donald Trump before now. It should be recalled that during his first term as President of the United States of America, President Donald Trump on July 4, 2017, hosted two Chibok girls—  Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu at the White in the company of his daughter Ivanka and Doug Wead, President of Canyonville Christian Academy, Oregon where both girls graduated.

Recall also that during President Muhammadu Buhari’s official visit to Donald Trump at the White House on April 30, 2018, President Trump pointedly addressed President Buhari on the issue of genocide against Nigerian Christians in the following words: “Also, we’ve had very serious problems with Christians who have been murdered, killed in Nigeria. We’re going to be working on that problem, and working on that problem very, very hard, because we can’t allow that to happen.”

 

It is important to note that the present designation of Nigeria as a country of particular concern is not the first by President Donald Trump. On December 11, 2020, the White House Press Secretary released a press statement announcing the designation of Nigeria as a country of particular concern, a status that was quickly reversed by President Joe Biden as soon as he took office.

• Why Impose Blanket Visa Ban on Nigeria?

The question which has lately arisen among Nigerians following the inclusion of Nigeria in the list of countries clamped with visa ban, in the face of the obvious overwhelming evidence of Christian persecution in the country is why make it general instead of restricting to those connected with Islamic terrorism in Nigeria? The answer is clearly explained by the fact that even the Christians who are suffering the persecution themselves are not doing much or exacting any form of pressure against the Federal Government. As I have always stated, the day the entire Nigerian Christian leaders decide to end this Islamic impunity in Nigeria is the day they all choose with one voice and action to troop into the streets of Nigerian cities and demand an end to it.

My request in this instance is that the American Government in applying the exception to the rule in both the cases of Government officials and those supposed to serve American interest, special note should be taken of those Nigerian Christian leaders who have chosen to deny Christian Genocide in their country and take satanic delight in acting as image launderers for the roguish Federal Government, of which the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese Rt. Rev Matthew Hassan Kukah, the President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Archbishop Daniel Okoh and, the President of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) Bishop Wale Oke are  the leading Judas Iscariot agents against Christian Genocide in Nigeria.

Ridiculously, Bishop Wale Oke was recently appointed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as his 2027 Presidential campaign Director for mobilization of Nigerian Christians. Many Christian leaders should be expecting his phone calls, unusual visits from this January 2026 to their offices, homes, Churches, General Meetings, Conventions and crusades to deliver his counsel of Ahithophel on behalf of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

• America Bombed Terrorists in Sokoto State Because The Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III Created Lakurawa Islamic Terrorists and Fulani Bandits

On the second question, why should Sokoto State be the first place to be bombed, we should be rightly informed that the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III is the supreme leader of Islamic terrorists in Nigeria, all of which operate under his coordinated supreme command as the supreme commander defined under Islamic law as Amīr al-muʾminīn (commander of the faithful).

The present Sultan of Sokoto retired as a Brigadier General from the Nigerian Army and was Nigeria’s Military attaché in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. So he has all the credentials to be a supreme patron of Islamic insurgents in Nigeria.

Nigerian terrorist groups are divided into four broad groups.  Boko Haram and its breakaway Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) operating mainly in the Northeast; former Seleka Fulani rebels of Central African Republic operating in the Middle Belt and northern part of Southeast geopolitical zone defined as Killer-Fulani herdsmen; the Zamfara based Bandits operating around Zamfara, Katsina, parts of Kaduna, Niger, Kwara and Kogi States, including Abuja, most of whom were recruited in 2014 from Sahel West African countries such as Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal, and Guinea to cause mayhem against Christians, in the event of President Goodluck Jonathan refusing to accept the rigged 2015 Presidential elections; and the ISIS-affiliated Lakurawa Islamic terrorists from Burkina Faso who fled President Ibrahim Traore’s pressure against them and were subsequently invited by the Sultan of Sokoto and officially given protective base in Sokoto State. The Lakurawa terrorist groups operate mainly in Sokoto, Kebbi, parts of Niger and Kwara States.

While the Islamic State of West Africa (ISWAP) was a breakaway terrorist group from Boko Haram; Boko Haram itself was founded by two erstwhile Governors of Borno State—Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff and Alhaji Kashim Shettima the current Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Their main military coordinators include the former Chief of Army Staff and Ambassador to Benin Republic Lt. General Tukur Yusuf and the current Chief of Army Staff Lt. General Waidi Shaibu, who as the Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force Northeast, popularly known as Operation Hadi Kai was tasked with the unholy recruitment of the so-called repentant members of Boko haram into the Nigerian army. Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists are not interested in hostage for ransom. Their main objectives are conquest and Islamization.

The Killer-Fulani herdsmen terrorist group who emerged from the defeated Islamic Seleka rebels of Central African Republic was specifically invited to Nigeria by the Sultan of Sokoto under the universal Fulani settlement scheme for three objectives— to kill, conquer and occupy. This group which operates mainly in Southern Kaduna, Plateau, Nasarawa, Benue, Taraba, Southern part of Adamawa and parts of Enugu and Ebonyi States are not interested in kidnapping for ransom payment but to conquer and occupy.

Their coordinators include the eccentric former Governor of Kaduna State Malam Nasir el-Rufai as the leader, who once boasted that those who are insisting on foreign intervention to confront the Islamic terrorists in Nigeria would have those foreign troops in body-bags; Alhaji Isa Ali Ibrahim  Pantami, an Islamic cleric, who as Minister of Communication and Digital Economy under President Muhammadu Buhari was responsible for the registration and issuance of national identity cards to these foreign Fulani invaders; the current National Security Adviser to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Malam Nuhu Ribadu and, Sheikh Sani Yahaya Jingir, the main operation coordinator of Killer-Fulani herdsmen in Plateau, Nasarawa and Benue States.

As a refugee in Eastern Region of Republic of Cameroon I had the opportunity of interacting with some of these former Seleka rebels during my protective hospital admission in both the District Hospital, Batouri and, Regional Hospital, Bertoua, by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in 2018, who saved me from lynching by these former Seleka rebels on the orders of Nigerian security agents.

I also interacted with them in the temporary refugee shelter in Bertuoa and the main refugee camp in Garoua-Boulai where I was informed of their planned relocation to Nigeria. I was asked numerous questions about Nigeria. I was also exposed to Fulani of Banyo, Tibati, and Ngaoundere towns in Adamawa Region of Republic of Cameroon, where I was told how they were issued Nigeria’s voter’s cards and crossed over to vote during General elections in Nigeria.

This was during my journey of life that took me from Oron in Akwa Ibom State through Bakassi Peninsula with an outboard engine boat for seven hours on open sea to Limbe in Southwest Region of Cameroon; thanks to the then Parish Priest of Oron Catholic Church Very Rev. Fr. Charles Eking and his aid Mr. Minatus Aghas whom God used to see me through. This is a story for another day.

The Zamfara State-based Killer-Bandits were founded by Muhammadu Buhari and currently are led and sponsored by the former Governor of Zamfara State and current Minister of State for Defence Alhaji Bello Matawele; the former Governor of Zamfara State and current Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Alhaji Ahmad Sani Yerima, with Sheikh Ahmad Gumi as their spiritual head and ambassador plenipotentiary.

This is a Federal and State Government-backed kidnapping-for ransom Islamic terrorist group as pointed out earlier formed originally for the purpose of mass killing of Christians in the event of President Goodluck Jonathan rejecting the result of the massively rigged 2015 Presidential election.

They are officially permitted to operate with impunity without the least hindrance from Nigerian security agencies, and oftentimes permitted to kidnap their victims under cooperation with Federal and State Government security agents with the intent of collecting ransoms from the Federal Government or their victims as the case may be. Their activities further serve as protective cover for illegal gold mining in Zamfara State operated by prominent Muslim politicians and military officers who supply them with arms and ammunition.

As earlier pointed out, the Lakurawa terrorist group was created by the present Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III from Burkina Faso Fulani terrorists who fled Captain Ibrahim Traore’s onslaught. They were officially provided a base in Sokoto State, with the former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of the Federation Alhaji Abubakar Malami as the chief coordinator. They were officially immune to attacks by Nigerian security agencies on the orders of the Sultan of Sokoto.

It should be recalled that Lakurawa terrorist group before abducting the 24 girls of Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, Maga, Kebbi State on November 17, 2025 informed the Kebbi State Government of their intent; thereafter soldiers were posted to guard the school. Ridiculously, 24 hours before the abduction took place, the Sultan of Sokoto through Abubakar Malami demanded that the soldiers be withdrawn.

The soldiers were withdrawn and the students abducted, with the same Government paying undisclosed amount of money as ransom to Lakurawa terrorists through the National Security Adviser Malam Nuhu Ribadu. This is the meaning of non-kinetic solution to Islamic terrorism in Nigeria.

Most astonishingly is the fact that as I am speaking right now, genocide against Nigerian Christians is still on-going with impunity while the Federal Government continued to live in pretentious shameless garb of denial because its proclivity to bride away Nigeria’s mainstream news media.

 The recent press conference held by Gwoza Christian Community Association (GCCA) of Borno State on “Bombing Day” December 26, 2025 is just one of the many such unreported cases of on-going persecution and killing of Christians in Nigeria.

The American Government under President Donald Trump was adequately aware of all the above facts and subsequently chose her preferred target which was clearly out of the thoughts of Nigerian authorities. The targeting of Lakurawa terrorists who are the pet-terrorist project of the Sultan of Sokoto is a clear signal to not only the Nigerian Government but all the Northern terrorist sponsors that President Donald Trump is no respecter of any individual linked with terrorism in Nigeria.

This raises the trending fundamental question, was Nigerian Government actually informed of the action before it took place? This question further leads us to the second hypothetical question, why should America have to attack terrorists in Nigeria when Nigeria has her own jet-fighters and bombers and President Bola Tinubu is believed to be trusted by President Donald Trump? 

• Why should America strike terrorists in Nigeria when Nigeria has Jet fighters and bombers, if the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Government is trusted by President Donald Trump?

From the foregoing analysis it is obvious that the present Federal Government headed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu cannot frontally confront the terrorist without at the same time digging its own political grave. President Tinubu knows that he was rigged into power by these same sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria with the proviso that he should not confront the terrorists and President Trump is fully aware of this fact.

The question is how can Nigerians believe that a Federal Government with Alhaji Kashim Shettima, a half-Kanuri, half-Fulani and co-founder of Boko Haram terrorist organization as Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, a Fulani and sponsor of Islamic terrorism as the National Security Adviser and, Alhaji Bello Matawele, a Fulani and sponsor of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria as the Minister of State for Defence, can effectively and sincerely confront and defeat Islamic terrorism in Nigeria?

In October 2020, during President Donald Trump’s first tenure, Islamic terrorists invaded Massalate Village in Niger Republic and kidnapped an American named Philip Walton and subsequently transferred him across the border to Nigeria. Within four days, American Special Forces invaded their hideout, killed all the terrorists and rescued their victim. During his campaign in Pennsylvania on Saturday 31, 2020, President Trump had this to say concerning the operation:

“Last night, at my direction, the United States military conducted a successful operation to rescue an American hostage in Nigeria, kidnapped just 96 hours earlier. United States Special Forces executed a daring nighttime operation to rescue their fellow American with exceptional skill, precision and bravery.”

In that operation neither the Government of Niger Republic in whose country the victim was kidnapped nor the Government of Federal Republic of Nigeria in whose country the victim was rescued, was informed by the American Government of the rescue operation. The current air strike was undertaken without permission from Nigerian Government which was only informed after the operation, and had no alternative than to fall in line.

The incoherent nature of statements from both the Federal Government agents and some Northern Muslim leaders claiming support for the airstrikes clearly shows that the action was independently undertaken by President Donald Trump with the clear objective of ending Christian Genocide in Nigeria; as conveyed in his official statement. The United States couldn’t have informed the same Federal Government that continues to deny Genocide against Christians that the airstrike was for the purpose of protecting Christians and that Sokoto State would be the target.

The diplomatic statement by the American Secretary of War Pete Hegseth that America appreciates the support and cooperation of Nigerian Government only came as an afterthought. The truth is that President Tinubu was not serious with American order to seriously confront the terrorists and was lately warned to expect American action anytime without informing the Federal Government when and how.

The question is what made the difference between previous claimed airstrikes by Nigerian Air Force and the one by the United States? The difference is clearly deception. President Tinubu is not only an accessory to the crime but incapable of ending terrorism in Nigeria and, is only buying time for his 2027 re-election. President Trump knows this fact.

Last November the counter-accusation over who created Boko Haram between Alhaji Modu Sheriff and Alhaji Kashim Shettima the present Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria re-echoed. This was sequel to the 2016 accusation of Alhaji Kashim Shettima by supporters of Alhaji Modu Sheriff that he founded Boko Haram.

Both men were former Governors of Borno State and had personal relationship with notable leaders of Boko Haram, beyond being linked with the formation of the Islamic insurgent group. Indeed, the program of integrating the so-called repentant members of Boko Haram was initiated by Alhaji Kashim Shettima as Borno State Governor. This is the same man who is the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and, we expect the same Government to confront Muslim terrorist frontally with sincere objective.

Unless this man is removed as Vice President, Nigerian Christians should forget the end of Christian Genocide without concrete American intervention. President Tinubu should ask him to resign and appoint a Middle Belt Christian as Vice President for equity and religious balance if he is sincere in his objective of ending terrorism in Nigeria.

Not long ago, some armed Fulani Muslim bandits were arrested in Kwara State and they confessed to being armed by a very high Government official in Abuja. That high Government official turned out to be the Fulani-born National Security Adviser Malam Nuhu Ribadu, who willingly confessed to the crime.

The same Malam Nuhu Ribadu’s subordinates in his office are currently undergoing interrogation for planning coup d’état against the present Federal Government. The question is, what is President Tinubu waiting for to sack him? The same Malam Nuhu Ribadu was openly accused by the former Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir el-Rufai of financing Islamic bandits, yet that was not enough crime to tell him to resign.

Similarly, not long ago, the incumbent Governor of Zamfara State Dr. Dauda Lawal openly accused his predecessor and current Minister of State for Defense Alhaji Bello Matawele for sponsoring Islamic bandits in Zamfara State.

The same Alhaji Matawele responded by saying that not all bandits are criminals. So far, he has not told Nigerians those who are the good bandits and those who are the bad bandits; yet the same man continues to preside over the fight against the same bandits. Does that not prove that Nigeria is a joker under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu?

•  How far has Nigeria complied with the Provisions of 28 September 2001 United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 on Combating Terrorism?

Recently President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his usual chameleonic manner intended to deceive President Donald Trump and Nigerians, claimed to have designated 31 certain groups and individuals as terrorists, without specifically mentioning names. He also talked about mentioning those referred to as terrorism financiers without the least intent to announce their arrests and prosecution.

In fact it should have been more honorable for the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to diligently lift Part V Sections 11 to 33 of Nigeria’s Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Act 2022, which are more comprehensive and elucidating, instead of pretending to promulgate new law on terrorism.

There are known terrorist groups Nigerians which President Bola Ahmd Tinubu was expected to mention without belaboring Nigerians with long list of potential political opponents and their supporters in readiness for 2027 General elections. Nigerians want to hear armed Fulani herdsmen, Muslim bandits, Lakurawa, Boko Haram, ISWAP and, their supporters. Nigerians want to hear such names as the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar the III, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, Alhaji Bello Matawele, Sheikh Isa Pantami, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, Malam Nasir el-Rufai and, Alhaji Abubakar Malami among others as sponsors of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria and not poor Bureau de Change agents miscalled as financiers of terrorism.

Nigerians were also expecting President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to ban the policy of repentant terrorists who are treated with red-carpet attention instead of facing trial; while their victims languish in their graves and IDP camps. Does it at all make any sense to President Tinubu that since the inception of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria, no single Muslim has been brought before the court of law for trial for the crime of terrorism, while a poor Christian from Adamawa State who defended himself against the same terrorists, was sentenced to death by Nigeria’s Supreme Court? This brings us to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1373 of 2001, section 2 (e) which expressly directs countries to:

“Ensure that any person who participates in the financing, planning, preparation or perpetration of terrorist acts or in supporting terrorist acts is brought to justice and ensure that, in addition to any other measures against them, such terrorist acts are established as serious criminal offences in domestic laws and regulations and that the punishment duly reflects the seriousness of such terrorist acts.”

The question arising from the above UN Security Council Resolution is how many Fulani herdsmen, Islamic bandits, Boko Haram and allied terrorists have been brought before the law for their atrocities against Christians in Nigeria? The answer is none.

In June 2018 after the massacre of over one hundred and twenty Christians by Fulani terrorists masquerading as herdsmen in eleven communities of Barkin-Ladi, Riyom and, Jos South Local Government Areas of Plateau State, the Fulani ethnic terrorist group named Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACBAN) claimed responsibility for the crime in response the false claim of cattle rustling by the indigenous Berom ethnic group in their home-State of Plateau.

So, for stealing cattle, more than 120 human lives were wasted; and the Federal Government of Nigeria considered such heinous crime against humanity as appropriate revenge without any arrest of the culprits. If indeed it was true the local Berom rustled Fulani cattle, where would they keep it in the same community where they face daily danger of extermination? Yet people are saying there is no Genocide against Christians in Nigeria.

The former Governor of Bauchi State Alhaji Isa Yuguda was reported on the Tribune issue of March 5, 2023 justifying Islamic terrorism by his Fulani ethnic kinsmen in the following words:

“As a Fulani man, we went to Zamfara up to the kidnappers den in the bush seeking to know why they are in to banditry, kidnappings and other criminal activities, and we understood that they took up Arms to revenge, because their parents were killed, maimed and raped, and their cattle were rustled , even their grazing reserves were seized.”

The question is how can such wobbling reasons be justified against the background of Fulani dominance of political and economic powers in Nigeria since independence in 1960? Of course, these are issues which only external intervention can resolve.

We live in a country, where terrorists in their full military gears and weapons attend social events under the sponsorship the Governors of Niger, Katsina, Borno, Zamfara, Sokoto, Kebbi, Kaduna and, Yobe States, while members of the Nigeria armed forces and Police stand aloof and watch, yet the Federal  Government tells us that they are fighting the same terrorists.

We are in a country where Federal and State Governments pay terrorists ransom for kidnapped victims; and those who openly associate with the same terrorists like Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi are treated with red-carpet respect by the same Governments.  This is a country where the current Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria Kashim Shetima boasted in a video clip that they must impose a Muslim President and a Muslim Vice President on Nigerian Christians in spite of their majority population and nothing will happen.

Today they have it and something is happening now and they are denying their genocide against Christians. This is a country where after Fulani terrorists had slaughtered over 30 Nigerian soldiers, blew up a rescue military helicopter displaying its wreckage with the victims, and the Niger State Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago came on national television telling the Nigerian military not to attack the terrorists because they are his kinsmen.

In 2019, the Miyetti Allah—the Fulani terrorist patron organization demanded the sum of 160 Billion naira as a condition to stop killing Christians. Both later agreed 100 billion naira. Was that not terrorist financing? But even after the said payment, the genocide increased three-folds.

It should be recalled that between 2015 and 2024, that is a period of 10 years, the United States Government provided the Federal Government of Nigeria over 7.38 Billion US Dollars in aid to fight terrorism in Nigeria. The breakdown is as follows:

2015 – $446 million
2016 – $543 million
2017 – $643 million
2018 – $877 million
2019 – $761 million
2020 – $880 million
2021 – $922 million
2022 – $974 million
2023 – $1 billion
2024 – $783 million

How did the Federal Government use the above staggering sum of money to fight terrorism in Nigeria in the face of the never-ending genocide against Christians in Nigeria and obvious geometric multiplication of terrorist activities in Nigeria? Is it not an irony that money given by a Christian country is used by Muslims to slaughter Christians? I believe that our enviable President Donald Trump will not leave this uninvestigated.

• “The Responsibility to Protect” and Why American Military Intervention in Nigeria is Expedient and Protected under International Humanitarian Law

From the foregoing, it is clear that the Federal Government under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu lacks both the mental capability and policy orientation to logically and morally confront Islamic terrorism in Nigeria. This fully explains why President Trump’s intervention is most expedient at this point of Nigeria’s political trials.

And the question is does America has the legitimacy to undertake military action against Nigeria? The answer is yes. And this is justified under different international laws, conventions and acceptable traditions. Nigeria’s actions within the same diplomatic space clearly justify the military intervention of the United States of America to stop the crime of Christian Genocide.

The recent intervention by the same Federal Government of Nigeria in Benin Republic to quell a coup d’état is a clear signal of go-ahead to the United States to put their boots on Nigeria’s ground. Is it not laughable indeed that the same Nigeria the United States is helping to strike its terrorists which it could not strike, spear-headed the bombing of rebel soldiers in Benin Republic, in addition to posting a contingent of soldiers in the same country?

Indeed, to further refresh our memories; in 1990, Nigeria hid under the cover of ECOMOG and invaded the Republic of Liberia and successfully removed President Samuel Doe. In February 1998, Nigeria invaded the Republic of Sierra Leone and re-imposed President Ahmed Tejan-Kabba. In July 30, 2023, the same Nigeria under the present President Bola Ahmed Tinubu threatened to invade Niger Republic.

It is therefore appropriate to state that based on the same circumstances which led Nigeria to invade Benin Republic, Liberia and Sierra Leone and, threatened to invade Niger Republic, the United States equally possesses the legitimacy to invade Nigeria. It is therefore right to say that President Donald Trump’s intervention in Nigeria is covered under international doctrine of reciprocity of action.

Second, Article I of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide states: “The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.”

By this provision, it means that the responsibility to prevent and stop the crime of genocide anywhere is delegated to all the contracting parties; and not to the leaders of the affected country who might be the culprits. In this instance the United States of America has the obligation to intervene in Nigeria under the conventional cover of Humanitarian Intervention. And what is Humanitarian Intervention in international law? According to J. L. Holzgrefe, Humanitarian Intervention is:

“The threat or use of force across state borders by a state (or a group of states) aimed at preventing or ending widespread and grave violations of the fundamental human rights of individuals other than its own citizens, without the permission of the state within whose territory force is applied.”

This often takes place when the agents of State are either accomplices in the crime or, incapable of ending the violations. This is clearly the case of Nigeria presently. So under this clause, the United States does not need permission from the Federal Government to deploy their military forces to Nigeria to secure the safety of Nigerian Christians facing extermination. All the Nigerian armed forces could do in this instance is to cooperate with the invading army and join them to bring Nigeria back to sanity.

Responding to those who opposed the doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention, the former Secretary General of the United Nations Kofi Anan stated emphatically:

“…if humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to a Rwanda, to a Srebrenica – to gross and systematic violations of human rights that affect every precept of our common humanity?”

We witnessed in what became known as Darfur Genocide, how the non-intervention of foreign powers under the cover of respect of sovereignty resulted in the death of over 200,000 ethnic Fur, Zaghawa and, Masalit of Republic of Sudan between 2002 and 2005 in the hands of the Sudanese Government-sponsored Janjaweed militia, which is today represented by armed Fulani herdsmen, Muslim bandits and Boko Haram and their associated insurgents. Regrettably, the same genocide is still on-going in the same Darfur Region of the Republic of Sudan as I am speaking.

Coming to Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi by the Hutu majority, the world stood by while close to one million defenseless Tutsi and moderate Hutu were massacred with reckless abandon from April 6, 1994 and July 4, 1994, when the forces of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) took control of the whole country and eventually put a stop to the orgy of killings. Here, because few Hutu were killed alongside Tutsi, does not invalidate the fact that it was essentially genocide against the Tutsi by the Hutu.

I was in Republic of Rwanda as an asylum-seeker for one year and four months, before the Nigerian Government instructed the Rwandan Government to throw me out of the country and, I was subsequently given 30 days to leave the country. Apart from the horrendous sight of the Genocide Memorial, the underlying effects of the Rwandan Genocide are noticeable at every Government office, notable points at many streets where the names of the victims are posted on epitaphs; just in the same manner Reverend Ezekiel Dachomo displayed their victims.

Today, more than three-quarter of Rwandan Youth had their parents slaughtered; and this explains why the Government encouraged adoption of all the orphans of the Genocide. These happened because neither America nor any European power intervened to stop the Genocide.

Now that the same Genocide is taking place in Nigeria and the United States has opted to intervene; shall we not applaud President Donald Trump? So as far as the doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention in international politics is concerned, the United States has the moral responsibility as a foremost Christian nation of the world to intervene in Nigeria to put a stop to the on-going genocide against their brother-Christians.

Third, the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty 2001, through its doctrine of “The Responsibility to Protect”, which is sanctioned by the United Nations, empowers the United States in intervene militarily in Nigeria to save persecuted Christians from extermination by Federal Government-sponsored jihadists.

The doctrine of “The Responsibility to Protect” is anchored on “the idea that sovereign states have a responsibility to protect their own citizens from avoidable catastrophe— from mass murder and rape, from starvation— but that when they are unwilling or unable to do so, that responsibility must be borne by the broader community of states.”

Section 1(A and B) of the core principles of the responsibility to protect defined in the principles for military intervention explicitly states:

“Military intervention for human protection purposes is an exceptional and extraordinary measure. To be warranted, there must be serious and irreparable harm occurring to human beings, or imminently likely to occur, of the following kind: A. large scale loss of life, actual or apprehended, with genocidal intent or not, which is the product either of deliberate state action, or state neglect or inability to act, or a failed state situation; or B. large scale ‘ethnic cleansing’, actual or apprehended, whether carried out by killing, forced expulsion, acts of terror or rape.”

Section 3 (F) on the right authority to initiate military intervention states: “The Security Council should take into account in all its deliberations that, if it fails to discharge its responsibility to protect in conscience-shocking situations crying out for action, concerned states may not rule out other her means to meet the gravity and urgency of that situation – and that the stature and credibility of the United Nations may suffer thereby.”

This is where American military intervention in Nigeria becomes most expedient, especially when considered in the context of the shortcomings of Article VIII of the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide whichstates:

“Any Contracting Party may call upon the competent organs of the United Nations to take such action under the Charter of the United Nations as they consider appropriate ]for the prevention and suppression of acts of genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in article III.”

And who are in charge of that competent organ of the United Nations? They are the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, who is a known supporter of Hamas and, the UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed, who is a Fulani from Borno State and a patroness of Boko Haram.

 From 3^rd to 4^th May 2022, the U.N Antonio Guterres who is supposed to be a professed Roman Catholic visited Borno State where he interacted with the so-called repentant Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists at their well-funded camp in Maiduguri, where he requested the Federal Government to speed up their so-called integration in the society.

There was no attempt to visit hundreds of IDPs housing displaced Christians but, what mattered to Antonio Geterres was not the trial of terrorists but their rehabilitation without justice. So the question is why shouldn’t Muslim terrorists be encouraged to kill Christians when they know that whenever they submit themselves to the authorities, they would be rehabilitated without facing justice? This is no doubt one of the lucrative characters of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria subtly under the protection of the United Nations Secretary General and his Deputy.

• Do Some Nigerian Christian Leaders by their Genocide Denial Syndrome Encourage Christian Genocide in Nigeria?

I am going to take two episodes from the Book of Numbers of the Holy Bible elucidate this ugly experience. These are the episodes that gave the Book its name—Numbers. The first episode is the first Census of the Israelites God ordered Moses to undertake shortly before they left the Sinai to the Wilderness; while the second episode is the second census undertaken just before they entered the Promised Land.

In Numbers Chapter 1 verses 1-3, the Bible states:

The Lord spoke to Moses in the tent of meeting in the Desert of Sinai on the first day of the second month of the second year after the Israelites came out of Egypt. He said: “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by their clans and families, listing every man by name, one by one. You and Aaron are to count according to their divisions all the men in Israel who are twenty years old or more and able to serve in the army.

This was the first census; and concerning the second census which took place just as the Israelites were about to enter the Promised Land, God commanded Moses in like manner in Chapter 26 verses 1-4 thus:

 After the plague the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar son of Aaron, the priest, ² “Take a census of the whole Israelite community by families—all those twenty years old or more who are able to serve in the army of Israel.” ³ So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them and said, ⁴ “Take a census of the men twenty years old or more, as the Lord commanded Moses.”

Between these two censuses, lay multiple episodes which I need not go into. But the fundamental episode of what transpired between the two censuses is conveyed in Chapter 14 Verses 30-34, which states:

Not one of you will enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make your home, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun. As for your children that you said would be taken as plunder, I will bring them in to enjoy the land you have rejected. But you — your bodies will fall in this desert. Your children will be shepherds here for forty years, suffering for your unfaithfulness, until the last of your bodies lies in the desert. For forty years — one year for each of the forty days you explored the land — you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.

Why were Caleb and Joshua the only men entitled to enter the Promised Land? The answer lies in Chapter 13. Both men were the only two among the twelve men representing each Tribe of Israel sent to spy the Promised Land and returned with positive result with unwavering faith in God.

While others returned with tales of false invincibility of the enemy, fear and the supposed inability to confront them, as many of our Christian leaders do today in the face of threatening genocidal extermination of Christians in Nigeria, Caleb and Joshua stopped them and stood firm in faith declaring that with God the children of Israel must conquer the enemies; as some of us believe today.

At this point of Nigeria’s history as defined by this day, the 30^th day of December 2025, when Nigerian Christians are about to enter the Promised Land beginning with the year 2026, we conducted our census in obedience to God’s command to Moses, but unfortunately we discovered many of the Nigerian Christian Tribal and Clan leaders missing in this journey to the Promised Land.

Did they disappear in the same manner those Tribal and Clan leaders of the Israelites counted in the first census were not found during the second census? I want to ask, where are the following men of God and leaders of Nigerian Christendom today, as we battle against Christian Genocide by Muslims in Nigeria today?

Where are:

1. The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, His Eminence, Most Reverend Daniel Okoh
2. Primate of Church of Nigeria Anglican Communion Archbishop Henry Ndukuba
3. Archbishop Lucius Ugorji of Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria
4. Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria Archbishop Oliver Ali Aba
5. Reverend Dr. Israel Adelani Akanji
6. Rev Father Ejike Mbaka
7. Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah
8. Bishop Francis Wale Oke
9. Pastor Enoch Adeboye
10. Pastor William F. Kumuyi
11. Pastor Tunde Bakare
12. Bishop David Oyedepo
13. Pastor Matthew Ashimolowo
14. Rev. Paul Jinadu
15. Bishop Mike Okonkwo
16. Daniel Kolawole Olukoya
17. Rev. George Adegboye
18. Prophet Joshua Iginla
19. Rev Yomi Kasali
20. Primate Elijah Ayodele
21. Evangelist Yusuf Yinka
22. Pastor Chris Oyakhilome
23. Pastor Paul Adefarasin
24. Bishop David Ibiyeomie
25. Pastor Lazarus Muoka
26. Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo
27.  Pastor Jerry Eze
28. Pastor Chris Okotie
29. Rev (Dr.) Samuel Aboyeji
30. Prophet (Dr.) Emmanuel Abiodun Adewale Alogbo

The foregoing leaders of the Nigerian Church who have chosen to either keep dead silence or engage in distorted and philistine narratives over Christian genocide in their country have by so doing excluded themselves from the second census commanded by Our God Almighty through Our Lord Jesus Christ.

Oftentimes, these men have hidden under biblical cocoon of Psalm 105:15 “…touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm” and continue to act as if they are above Our Lord Jesus Christ. That era has passed. It is either you defend your faith or God consumes you. The truth is that the Holy Bible clearly stipulated the consequences of playing Judas Iscariot by any Christian leader in Acts of the Apostles Chapter 1 verse 20, “For it is written in the book of Psalms: ‘Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein’; and, ‘His bishopric let another take.’”

It is absurd to see some Christians both highly placed and lowly placed defending the cause of Muslims whenever it comes to the issue of Genocide against Christians, persecution of Christians, marginalization of Christians in political appointments and, in fact, anything against Christians by Muslims for whatever ridiculous reason. But I have never in my life seen any single Muslim in Nigeria; whether highly placed or lowly placed defend the cause of Christians for any crime committed against them by their fellow Muslims. All one sees among them is either vocal support for the crime or dead silence.

If one takes a rough statistics of those loudly and disgustingly denying Christian Genocide today in Nigeria, you find them among the most highly placed Christian leaders. To these people, it does not border them for a dime that in a nation where Christians constitute definable population majority by demographic equation, Muslims were able to impose a Muslim President and a Muslim Vice President with impunity.

There is no way the God these Christian leaders claim to serve and lead the people on his behalf will be happy with them. Indeed, it will serve the Nigerian Christendom better if these people openly convert to Islam, instead of living as wolves in shepherd’s clothing among the sheep of Christ.

To Nigerian Christians therefore, the choice is yours—either you join the above divinely excluded leaders of your Churches and exclude yourself from the census for the Promised Land or, you become the Caleb and Joshua of persecuted Christians in our present struggles for the Promised Land of the Nigerian nation.

We must bear in mind that in our journey of life on this mother-earth, every one of us faces one common ultimate price—death. You fight for the cause of your people or you sabotage the cause of your people, you must definitely pay this ultimate price. Even those who decide to sit on the fence of condemnable neutrality eventually pay this ultimate price. In this life, two things matter most to any logical human being—the legacy you leave on this mother-earth and, the judgment you face before your creator after death.

Does it not teach us a hard lesson that majority of Christians who are daily slaughtered, kidnapped and displaced from their ancestral homes by Fulani Islamic terrorists are people who are neither involved in active politics nor engaged in active civil rights activism like me? It means that neither playing Judas Iscariot against your people nor keeping quiet as Christians can save anyone from the poisoned arrows and cursed riffles of these heinous Fulani Muslim terrorists and their cohorts.

Let us therefore with one voice and action as Christians, not only think of our present circumstances, our personal gains, our personal comforts and our personal safety, but the future of our nation, the future of our Christian religion, the future of our children and the future of our generations yet unborn.

• Conclusion: What Nigerian Christians Urgently Need for Lasting Peace and Security in Nigeria

Let me begin this concluding part by stating that Nigerian citizens holding dual citizenship of the United States of America constitute more than three-quarter population of immigrants from modern African nations. Not only that, they are notable for making significant contributions to the overall development of the United States. In other words, Nigeria could be classed as an extension of the United States of America in Africa. This explains why what takes place in Nigeria should matter much for the United States of America.

It is in the light of this strategic connection that President Donald Trump’s intervention in the on-going Genocide against Christians in Nigeria is not only most appropriate, most desirous and, most expedient, but in line with international humanitarian law as anchored on the doctrine of humanitarian intervention.

But the challenging question before us is have these Nigerian-Americans who are mostly Christians lived up to their expectations with regard to confronting the hydra-headed Islamic terrorism and the resultant genocide against their people? The answer is no. For those among them who are drugged with vile wine of pro-Democrats cum anti-Republicans, they should rightly be informed now that the better friends to Nigerian Christians are the Republicans, particularly under the present Trump dispensation.

The political and religious monsters we have today in Nigeria were created by United States Democrats; and it took the United States Republicans under President Donald Trump to initiate the present move to dismantle the same monsters. Who are those vocally and openly condemning with proactive policies to eliminate it—Republicans! Who are those peddling the false narrative of no Christian Genocide because some insignificant numbers of Muslims were killed—Democrats!

The State of Israel we have today is the result of tireless efforts of the Jewish Diaspora following the December 22, 1894 Captain Alfred Dresfus Affair, which sired the Austro-Hungarian journalist Theodor Herzl, his 1897 First World Zionist Congress in Basel Switzerland, the one Jewish Shekel policy, leading to the November 2, 1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour’s famous letter to the British Jew Lord Lionel Walter Rothschild, popularly known as the Balfour Declaration; which created the unimpeded international path to the present State of Israel.

Today the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) represents the cemen fondu of Jewish national interests in the United States. What stops Nigerian-Americans of Christian faith from constituting something of similar organization to support President Donald Trump’s efforts to liberate persecuted Nigerian Christians from the ongoing crime of Genocide? What stops Nigerian-Americans of Christian faith from contributing one dollar each to support the ongoing efforts to liberate Nigerian Christians from the shackles of fundamentalist Islamic subjugation sponsored by Turkey, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia with oversight international support of the French Government under President Emmanuel Macron?

There is no gainsaying the fact that the enormity of the present genocide against Nigeria Christians clearly defies the illogicality and subtleties of denials by the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu-led Federal Government. The Hague-based International Criminal Court (ICC) should urgently intervene to put the records straight by referring the matter for very comprehensive investigations.

Similarly, in addition to the present kinetic approach and the hope of boots on ground, President Trump should assist us to invoke Articles 39-51 of UN Charter of the United Nations Charter and cause the United Nations Security Council to constitute an International Criminal Court on Christian Genocide in Nigeria.

Meanwhile, the Federal Government if indeed it is serious about ending terrorism in Nigeria, should commence the immediate prosecution of identified sponsors of terrorism in Nigeria, no matter how highly placed such individuals are. This will form the stepping stone for the eventual intervention of the ICC and United Nations international crime tribunal.

But the question is does the present Federal Government of Nigeria under Alhaji Bola Ahmed Tinubu have the political courage and moral credentials to investigate and subsequently put on trial the likes of the Sultan of Sokoto Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, Alhaji Kashim Shettima, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, Alhaji Bello Matawele, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai, Alhaji Ali Modu Sheriff and General Tukur Buratai among others for their atrocious roles as sponsors of Islamic terrorism in Nigeria? The answer is no! What then happens?

In this circumstance, what becomes expedient is the resignation of the present Federal Government; suspension of the 2027 General elections and, the subsequent formation of an Interim National Government made up of proven civil and human rights activists, including technocrats; which will consequently oversee the gradual return to normalcy in Nigeria in every facet of the society. This independent-focused Interim National Government will subsequently oversee the total implementation of all the relevant policy-demands of the American Government in respect of the on-going Christian Genocide and combating of Islamic terrorism.