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CyynthiaKiss:
United States lawmakers on Tuesday were urged to mount direct pressure on the Nigerian government to declare Sharia law unconstitutional in the 12 northern states where it has been in force since 2000.

They were also urged to dismantle the Hisbah religious-police commissions accused of enabling extremist abuses.

The call came as American legislators examined escalating violence and what several witnesses described as state-enabled religious persecution targeting Christian communities across northern Nigeria and the Middle Belt.

Appearing before a joint House session convened in response to President Donald Trump’s October directive on Nigeria’s Country of Particular Concern (CPC) designation, the Council on Foreign Relations Senior Fellow, Dr. Ebenezer Obadare, warned that Sharia-based governance and Hisbah enforcement structures have become tools exploited by jihadist factions and radical actors.

According to him, the frameworks provide ideological and operational cover’ for Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and radicalised Fulani militias who enforce forced conversions, impose extremist rule, and operate with near-total impunity.

A statement issued by the House Appropriations Committee quoted Obadare as laying out a blunt two-step strategy for Washington: “The policy goal should be two-fold: first, work with the Nigerian military to neutralise Boko Haram.

“Second, the United States should put pressure on President Tinubu to (1) make Sharia law unconstitutional in the twelve northern states where they has been adopted since 2000 and (2) disband the various Hisbah groups across northern states seeking to enforce and impose Islamic law on all citizens regardless of their religious identity.”

Obadare acknowledged that Nigeria has responded to recent U.S. pressure but insisted that far more assertive diplomacy is required.

“As recent events have shown, the Nigerian authorities are not impervious to incentives,” he said.

“Since the country’s Country of Particular Concern (CPC) designation and President Trump’s threat of unilateral military action against Boko Haram, President Tinubu has made several moves, including ordering air strikes against Boko Haram targets, the recruitment of an additional 30,000 policemen, and, most recently, declaring a national security emergency in the country.”

Still, he maintained: “Washington must keep up the pressure.”

The session, led by Appropriations Vice Chair Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL) and including House Foreign Affairs Committee members, was dominated by stark warnings that the Nigerian state is failing to prosecute — and in some cases enabling — what lawmakers termed “religious cleansing.”

Witnesses referenced the November 22 abduction of schoolchildren and teachers from St. Mary’s Catholic School, Papiri, Niger State, ongoing blasphemy imprisonments, and systematic mass killings that have displaced entire Christian communities.

Obadare stated: “The deadliest and most serious threat confronting the Nigerian state today is jihadist terror, perpetrated by the Islamist group Boko Haram.

“Boko Haram translates to ‘Western education is forbidden.’ Boko Haram’s barbarous and implacable campaign to overthrow the Nigerian state and establish an Islamic caliphate in its stead is the source of Nigeria’s present discontents.

“Every proposal to solve the Nigerian crisis that does not take seriously the need to radically degrade and ultimately eliminate Boko Haram as a fighting force is a non-starter.”

However, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ) described Nigeria as “ground zero for global anti-Christian persecution,” while Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) demanded immediate disarmament of militias and the prosecution of attackers.

U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom Chair Vicky Hartzler and Alliance Defending Freedom International’s Sean Nelson detailed atrocities and urged the U.S. government to leverage security assistance, early-warning tools, and targeted sanctions to “force accountability” on Nigerian authorities.

Both Republican and Democratic lawmakers signalled readiness to support Díaz-Balart’s FY26 appropriations language aimed at addressing the crisis.

They confirmed that a formal congressional report is being prepared for President Trump, potentially recommending conditionality on U.S. assistance to Nigeria.

Nigeria was first designated a Country of Particular Concern in 2020 under President Trump but was delisted by President Joe Biden.

Trump, however, reinstated the designation on October 31, warning of possible military action and suspension of aid if Abuja failed to confront anti-Christian attacks and extremist violence.

This month’s hearing follows a separate November 20 House Subcommittee session on the CPC redesignation, which featured senior State Department officials and Nigerian religious leaders.

Tuesday’s briefing reinforced a rapidly growing consensus in Washington: that dismantling Sharia criminal law in northern Nigeria — alongside eliminating Hisbah religious police — is now viewed by U.S. lawmakers as an essential prerequisite to halting what they describe as one of the world’s deadliest and most neglected religious-freedom crises.

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erad:
I think the US is more particular about destabilizing Nigeria than actually helping. Why have they not asked Saudi and other Islamic countries to ban sharia law. You don't just propose such unreasonable solution at such a fragile moment.

Sharia law is what Muslims practice, what you should be talking about is how to standardize it with written down non-barbaric punishment for offenders. Also for the government to make sure it's binding on only willing muslims and subject to appeal at higher courts.

This is not a solution in any way, it's rather the creation of another problem because it will no longer be war against bandits, it will now be war against Islam which Nigeria is not ready for.

WizardOfNG:
Most intelligent post here. Those who are critical thinkers and pragmatically intelligent observers reason as you do.

To deliver change, you must be in offices that gives you power to deliver that change. Compromises must be made so a second term can be realised that will allow Nigeria be totally and uncompromisingly reformed and overhauled as she needs to be.

helinues:
Fake news from Sahara deserted.

On which capacity will USA say that?

Amotolongbo:
These requests are coming at a wrong time.

I know that Tinubu can execute these requests from the US but that will be after winning the second term election in 2027.
Tinubu is just one of the very few Southern politicians that can call e bluff on the northerners but there is always a timing for everything.

AqualinaXYZ:
Tinubu don enter wahala



How is he gonna navigate through two masters



USA wey hold him drug files and Fulani wey be him slave masters



Useless thief

Pressure Nigeria to abolish Sharia Law, disband Hisbah  —  Expert tells US lawmakers

United States lawmakers were on Tuesday urged to press the Nigerian government to abolish Sharia law in the 12 northern states where it is currently in operation and dismantle the religious-enforcement Hisbah commissions, amid warnings that both systems are deepening anti-Christian persecution.

Speaking at a joint congressional briefing convened by the House Appropriations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Dr. Ebenezer Obadare, Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said extremist groups are exploiting local religious structures to entrench violence and impunity.

He told lawmakers that Boko Haram, the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP), and radicalised Fulani militias “weaponise Sharia-based institutions and Hisbah operatives to advance extremist ideology, enforce forced conversions, and operate unchecked in many communities.”

A statement issued by the Appropriations Committee quoted Obadare as outlining a two-pronged approach: “The policy goal should be two-fold: first, work with the Nigerian military to neutralise Boko Haram. Second, the United States should put pressure on President Tinubu to make Sharia law unconstitutional in the twelve northern states where they have been adopted since 2000 and to disband the various Hisbah groups across northern states seeking to impose Islamic law on all citizens regardless of their religious identity.”

Obadare noted that the Nigerian government has shown responsiveness to international pressure, citing air strikes on Boko Haram positions, the recruitment of 30,000 additional police personnel, and President Bola Tinubu’s recent declaration of a national security emergency.

“As recent events have shown, the Nigerian authorities are not impervious to incentives,” he said, adding that “Washington must keep up the pressure.”

The bipartisan session, chaired by Appropriations Vice Chair Mario Díaz-Balart (R-FL), featured testimony alleging state complicity in what some lawmakers described as “religious cleansing” in northern Nigeria and the Middle Belt.

Witnesses pointed to recent attacks, including the November abduction of pupils and teachers from St Mary’s Catholic School in Niger State, as well as a pattern of blasphemy prosecutions and mass killings.

Emphasising the root of the crisis, Obadare warned that “the deadliest and most serious threat confronting the Nigerian state today is jihadist terror,” insisting that any credible solution must prioritise the dismantling of Boko Haram’s military capability.

“Every proposal to solve the Nigerian crisis that does not take seriously the need to radically degrade and ultimately eliminate Boko Haram as a fighting force is a non-starter,” he said.

Kemetian:
Your source, Numbeo, is widely dismissed as lacking credibility.

Literally anyone can go on there and generate/add their own 'data' without any peer review or even basic standards checks.

SHOW US AN OFFICIAL LIST FROM THE UNITED NATIONS OR WORLD BANK, ETC, NOT THIS DODGY RUBBISH..

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SmartPolician:
The danger of having moderate Muslims around you is that they rarely condemn mass killing of people of other faiths. While they pretend to hate it, they genuinely like it because they understand that the strategy is how their religion spreads fast.

CyynthiaKiss:
The Regional Chairman of the Church of Christ in Nations, COCIN, in Barkin Ladi local government area of Plateau State, Rev. Ezekiel Dachomo, has narrated a frightful experience he encountered in the hands of some Muslim people he sheltered and fed.

In a video with Equipping the Persecuted shared on X (formerly Twitter), Rev Dachomo, narrated how he took compassion on some stranded Muslims and provided accommodation and food for them, but they turned around to pay him back in the most horrendous manner by killing his grandmother, removed her heart.

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He alleged that the family also committed all sorts of atrocious acts despite his kindness to them.

“I bought foodstuffs with my money to feed them in my house, and they used the church to pray to Allah. Is that not live?” he said.

“And these same people were the ones who killed my grandmother and removed her heart. The same people killed my uncle and removed his tongue. The same people burned my best friend, my childhood friend, his wife, and his five children.

“Why is it that one side is supplying peace and the other side does not believe in peace, especially from the Islamic perspective? They don’t want to give us peace. They have been coming to our village to live with us, but in the end, they attacked us mercilessly, which led to the killing of my grandmother.

“And they have been visiting that village on and on to attack us but we have never visited their Ruga area to carry out attacks on them.

“The same Almajirai who rely on the generosity of Christian communities are often the ones weaponised to attack those very communities whenever violence erupts. No matter how kind you are, they’re conditioned not to see you as human.

“My question is: why is it that the Christians are always the ones ready to supply peace while the Muslims are not ready to supply peace? Even on my land, they have grabbed the land. To go and retrieve the land will be a case.

“I appeal to the Senate Committee to do what they can do; they know what they can do but they will not do it. But I am praying that God should lead the Committee to present on this security matter to allow us to return to our lands that have been grabbed by terrorists. We have been silent for too long and we will not keep silent again.

“And those who have been going to America to say there is no genocide in Plateau State, let us wait and see how God will handle them. Their breath is in the hands of God Almighty. God knows how to handle them for lying.

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CyynthiaKiss:
https://saharareporters.com/2025/11/30/us-spy-plane-conducts-reconnaissance-over-borno-monitor-iswap-under-nigeria-military?fbclid=IwZnRzaAOZPwRleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEepjj5khpriHaRxRNWyoVP_7JQKFC9WsQn2aXVR1snxQKXOkX7ixPjbgqy5tk_aem_HqOTZW-oxO_9nw8hJNBylw

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CyynthiaKiss:
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EXCLUSIVE: Senate Divided Over Reno Omokri’s Nomination As Past ‘Drug Baron’ Remark About Tinubu Sparks Row, Shutdown Of WhatsApp Group

There is mounting tension in the Nigerian Senate following the nomination of social media commentator and former presidential aide, Reno Omokri, as an ambassadorial nominee, an appointment that has triggered factional battles, and the shutdown of the lawmakers’ WhatsApp group.

Omokri was among the 32 names forwarded to the Senate for confirmation, but his inclusion has provoked a storm, especially over his past public criticism of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, including a controversial remark in which he once labelled the President a “drug baron”.

Multiple parliamentary sources told SaharaReporters that Senate President Godswill Akpabio was instrumental in pushing Omokri’s name forward, allegedly as a reward for political work Omokri had done for him.

Meanwhile, in an unexpected twist, Akpabio is said to be mobilising his loyalists to oppose the same nominee he helped elevate.

“The senate president had nominated Omokri as a reward for the hatchet job he did for him,” one source disclosed.

“However, Akpabio is rallying some of his clique to screen Omokri out on the claim that he once attacked Tinubu and called him a drug baron.”

Another source revealed that Senator Osita Ngwu of Enugu West has taken a lead role in mobilising resistance against Omokri.

Ngwu has allegedly been reaching out to colleagues, urging them to reject the nominee on grounds of impropriety, arguing that anyone who made such serious allegations against a sitting President cannot credibly represent Nigeria on the global stage.

Senator Osita Ngwu, representing Enugu West Senatorial District, is reported to be rallying senators to reject Omokri with sources revealing that Ngwu has been attacking colleagues against the move.

“Senator Osita Ngwu, representing Enugu West Senatorial District, is reported to be rallying senators to reject Omokri,” an insider noted.

“Ngwu has been attacking colleagues against the move.”

The disagreements reportedly spiralled into a larger internal crisis when a Senate WhatsApp group, used for routine communication among lawmakers, was abruptly locked after arguments over Omokri’s nomination intensified.

Senator Ngwu, said to be one of the administrators of the group, allegedly disabled responses to prevent further confrontations. This angered several senators who insisted they had been silenced.

But Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, a vocal figure in the Senate, publicly confronted Ngwu over the group shutdown and demanded that he reopen the platform and restore comments that had been deleted during the altercation.

“Dear Senator Osita Ngwu of Enugu Enugu West Senatorial District, you will open responses in the Senators WhatsApp forum and repost my deleted comments,” she posted.

“Else I’ll bring the discussion to the public domain.”

Ngwu insisted anyone who had called the president a drug baron cannot represent the president and country.

He said, “Someone who called the President of Nigeria a drug baron and who has not retracted the statement should not represent Nigeria and Nigerians in the international and diplomatic society.

“It’s about the office of the President not about an individual.

“Meanwhile, bring it up...”

His defiance further inflamed tension among senators already divided over the nomination.

The source told SaharaReporters that despite the uproar, the Senate is expected to begin screening the ambassadorial nominees on Tuesday.

SaharaReporters previously reported that former presidential aide to Goodluck Jonathan, Omokri, once swore never to accept any appointment or work with President Bola Tinubu.

Omokri was one of Tinubu’s fiercest critics prior to the 2023 presidential election, questioning his record, qualifications, and integrity.

Although he later softened his criticism after confirming Tinubu attended Chicago University.

Reno made the remarks during an appearance on the Mic On podcast, hosted by journalist Seun Okinbaloye, where Omokri was asked directly if he would accept an offer from Tinubu.

“It will never happen,” he said.

Pressed further on whether any scenario could make him reconsider, he added:

“Oh my gosh, I don't want to betray privilege. Somebody from Bola Tinubu's camp has already reached out to me, and I told the person that, look, it cannot happen.

“I can't do it. It's just against my principles. Some people can do that. It's not in my DNA. I can't do it.

“It's never going to happen. It's never going to happen. I wish Bola Tinubu well if he eventually is sworn in and then the court upholds his victory. But I can never work with him.”