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Nigerians constitute 90% of Christians killed worldwide annually; U.S. Congress clears Trump to impose crippling sanctions on Tinubu govt.

The United States House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa Chairman, Chris Smith, has cleared the U.S. President Donald Trump to impose harsh sanctions on Nigeria over the killing of Christians in the West African country.

The House Subcommittee reached the resolution following a Wednesday hearing regarding the prosecution of Christians in the West African nation, noting that the wanton violence against Christians in Nigeria had significantly worsened in recent years.

“One of our distinguished witnesses today—Bishop Wilfred Anagbe of the diocese of Makurdi, Nigeria— travelled a long distance to be with us today and will testify, and this is from his testimony. Militant Fulani herdsmen are terrorists,” Mr Smith said during the hearing on Wednesday.

He said, “They steal and vandalise, they kill and boast about it, they kidnap and rape, and they enjoy total impunity from the elected officials. None of them have been arrested and brought to justice.”

The subcommittee noted that Nigerians constituted 90 per cent of Christians killed worldwide annually, citing a 2024 report by the Observatory for Religious Freedom in Africa showing out of the 55,910 people killed between October 2019 and September 2023, 21,000 of them were abducted in the context of terror groups.

“Make no mistake, all of these attacks are based on religion, like I said, and diverting attention from it denies what we have seen with our own eyes. This “religious cleansing” needs to stop, and the perpetrators be brought to justice,” the report noted.

The subcommittee blamed the Nigerian government for not doing enough to protect protest Christians from persecution even though freedom of religion is enshrined in the country’s constitution while decrying instances where Nigerian court system has been weaponised to punish Christian population.

“Yet, the Government of Nigeria has failed to make progress against religiously motivated persecution of Christians despite religious freedom being enshrined as an essential human right in its Constitution,” the subcommittee noted in their report.

It added, “Likewise, Nigerian legal framework supports pluralism at both federal and state levels but glaring contradictions exist, especially with laws that criminalise blasphemy—some even carrying the death penalty.”

Mr Smith blamed the previous Joe Biden administration for removing Nigeria’s Country of Particular Concern (CPC) designation, which was placed on the country under first Donald Trump term at the White House despite U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom’s recommendations for four consecutive years between 2021 and 2024 to redesignate the country.

He recommended that Mr Trump should do more to help Christians in Nigeria, including placing the country on CPC designate on Nigeria and urged him to reach out to his Nigerian counterpart Bola Tinubu on the matter.

Mr Smith also asked the Trump administration and the U.S. Senate to be ready to work together to impose sanctions if the killing of Christians doesn’t stop.

“While I strongly believe that President Trump will again designate Nigeria a CPC—and do much more to assist the persecuted church including outreach to Nigerian President Tinubu —last night I reintroduced the resolution. I hope that we will have a robust discussion and that it will get marked up,” Mr Smith said.

He added, “Let me also say that, and I’ll put the rest of my statement into the record, this hearing we’re hoping will be a catalyst for action by our own government and also by Congress and of course , above all, the Executive Branch. The new president has a lot to do and I think he’ll do this and then, if necessary, impose sanctions. Where that has happened, there has been change. Where it doesn’t happen, the status quo, the killing fields continue.”

https://gazettengr.com/nigerians-constitute-90-of-christians-killed-worldwide-annually-u-s-congress-clears-trump-to-impose-crippling-sanctions-on-tinubu-govt/

Imposing crippling sanctions on Tinunu or Nigeria? Imposing crippling sanctions on Nigeria will affect both Christians and Muslims. We don't need any crippling sanctions now. Imposing sanctions on Tinunu himself is unfair. Tinunu has no hand in killing Christians and he will never support it. His wife and children are christians

Heavens1stson:
Nigerians constitute 90% of Christians killed worldwide annually; U.S. Congress clears Trump to impose crippling sanctions on Tinubu govt.



https://gazettengr.com/nigerians-constitute-90-of-christians-killed-worldwide-annually-u-s-congress-clears-trump-to-impose-crippling-sanctions-on-tinubu-govt/

As you dey sanction Nigeria, remember say no be only terrorists dey the country. Nothing economic should touch us; rather, narrow it down to the likes of Bashir El-Rufai, his father, and their ilks; sponsors and/or sympathizers of terrorism and banditry.

I believe you already have their list, so you can start by freezing their assets in the U.S. and Europe and get your other allies to do the same in the Middle East and Asia, together with an indefinite travel ban for them and everyone in their families. No health tourism, no holiday for them. We die here. No peace for the wicked. May God punish every evil person scheming to take an innocent soul.

Obiedun:
Imposing crippling sanctions on Tinunu or Nigeria? Imposing crippling sanctions on Nigeria will affect both Christians and Muslims. We don't need any crippling sanctions now

Better than allowing your killers kill off Nigerians.

PresidObi:
Better than allowing your killers kill off Nigerians.

Will the sanctions stop the senseless killings? Infact,the western world has been too quiet about the senseless killings in Nigeria

Obiedun:
Will the sanctions stop the senseless killings? Infact,the western world has been too quiet about the senseless killings in Nigeria

IPOBs and goats what’s the difference?

Everyone knows Tinubu is not a blood thirsty religious bigots like Buhari and Elrufai. It is your sponsored Northern Islamic extremists killing christians in the North. Trump should rather sanction Northern Islamist politicians like Elrufai, Pantami, Gunmi, Myetti Allah & co.

Heavens1stson:
Nigerians constitute 90% of Christians killed worldwide annually; U.S. Congress clears Trump to impose crippling sanctions on Tinubu govt.



https://gazettengr.com/nigerians-constitute-90-of-christians-killed-worldwide-annually-u-s-congress-clears-trump-to-impose-crippling-sanctions-on-tinubu-govt/

Face your region for once, open thread about Bokoharam, banditry, Fulani herdsmen that have ravaged the North and killing people in the south. Expose them, your traditional leaders and Indigenes collaborating with bandits, create a thread on how Al-majiris can be taken off the streets, how the North can catch up with the south. Help yourselves for once. Don't only devote your life worshipping Atiku and scavenging Twitter for gossips or poke nosing into southern affairs. You opened numerous threads attacking igbos during Buhari's Administration, stop being double faced.

And this goes to your fellow Atikuloosers as well ;

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Obiedun:
Will the sanctions stop the senseless killings? Infact,the western world has been too quiet about the senseless killings in Nigeria

Let them try it, let's see if it will save some lives. Doing nothing is not an option.

Nldfpmod, shouldn't this piece of good news be on the front page? Perhaps this action by the West will encourage our hesitant government to take action against the terrorists!

It's time FG look into this media Gazette with their constant fake news

Fcs, how are christians being persecuted in Nigeria? Let's be sincere with ourselves for once

Obiedun:
Imposing crippling sanctions on Tinunu or Nigeria? Imposing crippling sanctions on Nigeria will affect both Christians and Muslims. We don't need any crippling sanctions now

Bro don't tell me you also swallow this bunkum news from Gazette.

How are christians being persecuted in Nigeria?

Nigeria is the most dangerous place on earth to be a Christian

Peter Obi’s friends like Bashir El-Rufai are the ones killing northern Christians.

America kills 45,000 Christians with guns and another 100,000 through drugs.

Let's not forget the CIA dealing in cociane.

They should sanction the Supreme Court of Nigeria for declaring that self-defence constitutes the murder of Fulani herdsmen. This is the worst judgment in defence of herdsmen and the atrocities committed by the Fulani people.

SalamRushdie:
Nigeria is the most dangerous place on earth to be a Christian

Lies.
45,000 Christians are killed by guns and another 100,000 killed via drugs in America annually.

And same US is supporting HTS ISIS affiliated terrorists in Syria to massacre Christians and Alawaites .

Same Zion Don has no problem backing IsraHell in its ongoing genocidal war that is killing civilians in Gaza which include Palestinian Christians.

What of southern Lebanon were Christian communities and towns were targeted by Israeli forces ?

Zion Don should face suckin his masters in Pissrael first

helinues:
Bro don't tell me you also swallow this bunkum news from Gazette.

How are christians being persecuted in Nigeria?

You must be living in a bubble

SalamRushdie:
Nigeria is the most dangerous place on earth to be a Christian

As a Christian, have you been personally prosecuted by people from other faith in Nigeria?

See, everything shouldn't be about politics.

Explain to us logically how Christians in Nigeria are being prosecuted

Agbadorians and Cho Cho cho.

From “there’s no evidence” to “It was Buhari and El-Rufai”.

SalamRushdie:
You must be living in a bubble

You actually missed the word logically. I want your own explanation. Tell us how Christians are being persecuted in Nigeria.

The bandits, Boko Haram killing people in North, do they target people by their faith?

Those who are into ritualists in South West, do they also segregate people by their faith?

Oh, UGM operated in South East for over 2 years, even for the fact that South East claimed to be majorly Christians, do the UGM targeted people by the denomination ( Catholic, Anglican)?

The Islamic Blasphemy law disproportionately targets Christians.

Hisbah is an Islamic police force that focuses on policing Christians in a multicultural society.

In Nigeria, Christians are being killed and displaced without the perpetrators facing accountability.

Christian villages are being attacked, replaced, and renamed by Islamic jihadists, while the Federal Government discusses RUGA and ranching as compensation for the aggressors.

This is unjust prosecution of Christians in Nigeria.

Tooo

zero8zero:
Everyone knows Tinubu is not a blood thirsty religious bigots like Buhari and Elrufai. It is your sponsored Northern Islamic extremists killing christians in the North. Trump should rather sanction Northern Islamist politicians like Elrufai, Pantami, Gunmi, Myetti Allah & co.



Face your region for once, open thread about Bokoharam, banditry, Fulani herdsmen that have ravaged the North and killing people in the south. Expose them, your traditional leaders and Indigenes collaborating with bandits, create a thread on how Al-majiris can be taken off the streets, how the North can catch up with the south. Help yourselves for once. Don't only devote your life worshipping Atiku and scavenging Twitter for gossips or poke nosing into southern affairs. You opened numerous threads attacking igbos during Buhari's Administration, stop being double faced.

And this goes to your fellow Atikuloosers as well ;

You voted and campaigned for Buhari in 2015, defended his policy during his eight years administration.

Today, the same Buhari is a blood thirsty religious bigot according to you because your man is now in power.

MadamExcellency:
The Islamic Blasphemy law disproportionately targets Christians.

Hisbah is an Islamic police force that focuses on policing Christians in a multicultural society.

In Nigeria, Christians are being killed and displaced without the perpetrators facing accountability.

Christian villages are being attacked, replaced, and renamed by Islamic jihadists, while the Federal Government discusses RUGA and ranching as compensation for the aggressors.

This is unjust prosecution of Christians in Nigeria.

What of the revelations coming out of the US about USAID funding radical Islamist terrorist groups like Boko Haram that started during the Obama era?


Your newly minted hero , El Rufai as governor of Kaduna state benefited the most from the terrorist slush funds and we know what happened to Christians during his 8y tenure

OkpaNsukkaisBae:
You voted and campaigned for Buhari in 2015, defended his policy during his eight years administration.

Today, the same Buhari is a blood thirsty religious bigot according to you because your man is now in power.

That’s Agbadorians for you

Just so you know, no sanction, no matter how severe can affect Tinubu and his family.

Peter Obi came 3rd

He can never be president of Nigeria

Get over his failure at the polls and get your life together.

He should have placed a travel ban on Tinubu and all his cabinet members, plus asset freeze, including those of their family members and associates, and then pressure UK and other EU countries to do same.


That's the only way to deal with Tinubu and his criminal APC party destroying Nigeria since 2015

Obiedun:
Imposing crippling sanctions on Tinunu or Nigeria? Imposing crippling sanctions on Nigeria will affect both Christians and Muslims. We don't need any crippling sanctions now

It will be imposed so that you will remove Tinubu from power as quick as possible.