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izzou:
That's my fear too.

Putting the man's life at risk. If he is killed even by malaria, it becomes a Muslim Christian issue.

I really don't know how a whole New York Times would report such.

A Screwdriver seller that no Nigerian knew, is the one that manipulated a whole USA?

It's hilarious watching the likes of Onye Nkuzi and his fellow members of the DNC Nigerian branch crashing out over that report. Dem see liberal propaganda, dem shock.

Unlimited22:
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BlueRayDick:
Let me tell you what I think happened in this case:

I think American local politics is being taken too far and same being projected on the issues in Nigeria.

The tone of that New York Times news piece sounds like their intention was to discredit Trump's action as regards the airstrikes in Sokoto last December. You know Trump has his own issues with some media organizations inside America and New York Times is one of them.

In order for NYT to be able to discredit the American airstrike, they need to discredit people like Riley who has been in the forefront of the Christian Genocide issue. So to do that, they need to attack the source of data that has been quoted by Riley in his numerous posts on social media and his reports in congress. I guess that was what led them to digging into the ownership/control of one of the Civil Organizations that has reported the Christian gencoide going on in the north and found goldmine .

Seeing the civil organization was registered by that man they called "screwdriver salesman in Onitsha", they just decided to pivot their propaganda in that direction and claim Trump relied on wrong intelligence to carry out the airstrike.

This has little to do with Nigeria but the US media war on Trump and Nigeria just got caught in the middle. It was trying to smear whatever Trump did to present it as he is clueless

The same thing they did during covid when they tagged Ivermectin a drug that won 2015 Nobel prize was tagged a "horse dewormer" just because Trump was pushing it

BlueRayDick:
Funny shiiit.

The Nigerian Government admitted the American airstrike in Sokoto was a joint operation of the Nigerian and American governments. But lobbyist and propagandist are saying America relied on Onitsha based screwdriver salesman. No be juju be that?

Oho! So are they now saying Emeka works as a secret agent for the Nigerian Govt while selling screwdrivers as a front or are they openly stating that the Govt was clueless about the strike and didn't know what hit them

izzou:
That's my fear too.

Putting the man's life at risk. If he is killed even by malaria, it becomes a Muslim Christian issue.

I really don't know how a whole New York Times would report such.

A Screwdriver seller that no Nigerian knew, is the one that manipulated a whole USA?

It's utter bunkum and they know it, this is one of the most ridiculous things I've ever read

TemporaryHansel:
Knowing how DSS functions, either them or police will invite or pick the man up soon.

Well let's watch and see

@semid4lyfe my next post may be deleted by spam bot

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/africa/nigeria-christmas-bombing-republicans.html

this is a link to the nyt ariticle in full

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/africa/nigeria-christmas-bombing-republicans.html


In a market in southeastern Nigeria, a short man wearing one earbud recently made his way to the tool section, dodging wheelbarrows of sugar cane and porters carrying stacks of hard hats.

The man, Emeka Umeagbalasi, owns a tiny shop selling screwdrivers and wrenches in this market in Onitsha, the commercial hub of southeast Nigeria.

But this screwdriver salesman is also an unlikely source of research that U.S. Republican lawmakers have used to promote the misleading idea that Christians are being singled out for slaughter in Africa’s most populous nation. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Representative Riley Moore of Virginia and Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey have all cited his work.

Armed with his ideas, President Trump launched airstrikes on the other side of Mr. Umeagbalasi’s country on Christmas Day.

To Mr. Umeagbalasi, that the American president had taken up a cause he had promoted, was “miraculous.”

“If nothing is done,” he said in an interview from his home, “Nigeria will explode.”

Mr. Umeagbalasi says he has documented 125,000 Christian deaths in Nigeria since 2009, but told The New York Times that he often does not verify his data. He acknowledged that his research was mainly based on “secondary sources,” including Christian interest groups, Nigerian news reports and Google searches.

Mr. Cruz, Mr. Moore and Mr. Smith did not respond to requests for comment. A White House spokeswoman did not address questions about Mr. Umeagbalasi’s data and methods, but said in a statement that “the massacre of Christians by radical, terrorist scum will not be tolerated.”
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It is notoriously difficult to collect data on the killings, kidnappings and attacks that have wrought havoc on Nigerians for years.

The Nigerian government does not release comprehensive data on the number of people killed in violent attacks, or their religions. Many attacks in Nigeria go unrecorded because they happen in remote areas and are only heard of long afterward.

While some research shows that Christians are being killed in large numbers in Nigeria, researchers say a lack of security and widespread impunity in the most affected parts of the country endangers both Christian and Muslim Nigerians.


Mr. Umeagbalasi, who is Catholic, founded the International Society for Civil Liberties and the Rule of Law, or Intersociety, in 2008. He runs the organization out of his home. His wife, Blessing, an evangelical Christian, is a board member.

He said he has degrees in security studies and peace and conflict resolution from the National Open University of Nigeria and described himself as a very “powerful” and “knowledgeable” investigator, comparing himself with the veteran CNN journalist Christiane Amanpour.

But when questioned about the accuracy of his data, establishing the religion of victims and determining the intent of perpetrators, he admitted that he rarely travels to the regions where attacks have occurred and usually assumes the victim’s religion.

Mr. Umeagbalasi has said that more than 7,000 Christians were killed in Nigeria in the first seven months of 2025. But an independent conflict-monitoring group, Armed Conflict Location and Event Data, estimates that around 6,700 people, including Islamist insurgents and military personnel, were killed in the same period. Only 3,000 of them were recorded as civilians, but that data is not disaggregated for religion.

Mr. Umeagbalasi explained that he determines the religious identity of victims based on where each attack occurs. If a mass abduction or killing happens in an area where he thinks many Christians live, he assumes the victims are Christians.

“For instance, if killings take place in Borno today, when I look at it, I will just look at the zone where the killings take place,” he said, referring to the majority-Muslim state at the heart of Boko Haram’s deadly insurgency in Nigeria. “Once they take place in southern Borno, there is likelihood of the victims being Christians or many of them or most of them being Christians.”

Many of Boko Haram’s victims are Muslim.

He also gave the example of 25 schoolgirls recently kidnapped in the state of Kebbi. The girls were all Muslim, according to the school principal and local officials. But Mr. Umeagbalasi claimed that they were mostly Christian.


“The girls — a majority of them are Christians, but you know what Nigerian government did?” he said. “They went and Islamized them. Gave them Islamic names just to confuse people.”

Alkasim Abdulkadir, a spokesman for Nigeria’s foreign minister, denied that the government had misrepresented the girls’ religion. “There’s a lot of fallacy to his research, a lot of confirmation bias,” he said of Mr. Umeagbalasi. “He’s very performative.”
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Mr. Umeagbalasi said he almost never travels to Nigeria’s Middle Belt, the region where violence against Christians is most intense. Instead, he said, he relies on “secondary sources” like news reports and Open Doors, a Christian advocacy group whose data has been cited by Mr. Trump.

One of his main secondary sources is Truth Nigeria, a project founded by a filmmaker and evangelist from Iowa, Judd Saul.

Like Intersociety and other Christian advocacy groups in Nigeria and the United States, Truth Nigeria frequently identifies the perpetrators of attacks on Christians in the country as “Fulani ethnic militias.” The Fulani are an ethnic group with tens of millions of mostly Muslim members, some of whom are herders whose ancestors have roamed across West Africa for centuries.

Mr. Umeagbalasi called the Fulani “animals” and said all Fulanis should be confined to one Nigerian state, a move that would be tantamount to ethnic cleansing.

Researchers, journalists and prominent Christians regularly dispute Mr. Umeagbalasi’s figures.

Nnamdi Obasi, the Nigeria adviser for the International Crisis Group, described Intersociety’s methodology as “a total blank” and said that the figures in Intersociety’s reports did not add up correctly.

“The basic addition is very, very faulty,” he said.

Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, the Catholic bishop of Sokoto, the northwestern Nigerian state that the United States bombed in December, said in an interview that focusing too much on the data about Christians obscured a more important issue. “Focus on the fact that this state is weak and doesn’t have the capacity to protect its people,” he said.

Mr. Umeagbalasi remains undeterred by criticism.


He flipped open his laptop, where he had almost completed work on his next report, titled, “The Situation of Christians in Nigeria Fueled by Jihadist Terrorism Inches a Point of No Return.”

“This is our heavenly marathon,” he said.

He sat in his living room, its walls painted green and black. A bookshelf was crammed with old papers and plaques. One read, “For excellent service to humanity.”

He said close to 20,000 churches were destroyed in the past 16 years, and, he said, 100,000 churches existed in Nigeria.

There is no government data on the number of churches in Nigeria. So where did he get the 100,000 figure?

“Googled it,” he said.


Reporting was contributed by Saikou Jammeh, Dionne Searcey, Ismail Auwal and David Chidi Eleke.

Ruth Maclean is the West Africa bureau chief for The Times, covering 25 countries including Nigeria, Congo, the countries in the Sahel region as well as Central Africa.

this is his org website

https://intersociety-ng.org/

this is about him

https://intersociety-ng.org/about-emeka-umeagbalasi-founder-and-leader-of-intersociety/

Emeka Umeagbalasi is an Ezinifite-Aguata, Anambra State of Nigeria’s born astute, dogged, and consistent Human Rights and Democracy Campaigner since 1994 when he joined Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), Nigeria’s premier Human Rights and Pro-Democracy advocacy organization, formed in 1987 and has held several elective positions at the State and Zonal Levels of the Organization. He also became a volunteer-member of Amnesty International (Nigeria) in 1995 and later served as its Group Coordinator of Onitsha Pre-Group; and from 1996 to 1998, Umeagbalasi was an international Associate Member of Human Rights Watch (USA). Born in Feb 1969 and married; Emeka Umeagbalasi is a Criminologist and Graduate of Security Studies with a Second-Class Upper Division from the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) where he also obtained a master’s degree in Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution. Umeagbalasi has held various positions in different Human Rights and Pro-Democracy movements and belongs to several local and international NGOs and bodies of experts from where he gathered experiences, expertise, courage, inspirations, and aspiration to form the International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (InterSociety) in 2008. He has written several reports and articles and authored or co-authored several books including but not limited to: “THE NOMAD TERROR (USA: 2021)” and “THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND NOBLE WAYS OF LIFE OF THE IGBO PEOPLE OF AFRICA (A comprehensive account of the origin, kingship, justice system and noble ways of life of the Igbo People of Africa and modern time challenges facing them: 2019: unpublished)”.

The Intersociety Leader (Umeagbalasi) is a multiple ‘merit awards’ winner’ and has obtained several Human Rights and Democracy Education Certificates including but not limited to: “a Certificate of Participation” in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the United States Department of State (DoS)’s Educational and Cultural Affairs on “NGO Management in the U.S.” (Class of June 10-28, 2013). Among top Merit Awards bestowed on Emeka Umeagbalasi are: The Nigerian Red Cross Society’s ‘Henry Donant Gold Merit Award’ (Sept 14, 2008); ‘Merit Award for Excellent Service to Humanity and Assistance to the Less Privileged, Orphans and Widows’ by the Child Emancipation and Welfare Organization of Nigeria (2009); ‘Defense of Human Rights Veteran Award’ by the Law Students Association of the Anambra State University (Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University), Igbariam, Anambra State (June 22, 2012); ‘Volunteer General for Service to Humanity Award’ by the Nigerian Red Cross Society (Dec 5, 2015); ‘The People’s Advocate Award for Human Rights Advancement’ by the Law Students Association of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State (June 8, 2018), ‘Award of Recognition for the Intersociety’s Contribution in Engendering Rule of Law and Human Rights in the South-East’, shared with the Intersociety and bestowed by the NUJ or Nigerian Union of Journalists’ Correspondents’ Chapel, Enugu State Council (Nov 17, 2023); and ‘Award of Excellence for Defense of Human Rights’, in Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) bestowed by the Civil Liberties Organization (CLO), Anambra State Branch (Dec 10, 2023).

the below are from his archives

https://intersociety-ng.org/2021-archive/

what the NYT article is alleging is that most of the case for persecution of christians is based on the mans 'documentation of genocide'

GloriousGbola:
the below are from his archives

https://intersociety-ng.org/2021-archive/

what the NYT article is alleging is that most of the case for persecution of christians is based on the mans 'documentation of genocide'

We are all in this Nigeria together, does anyone need to rely on whatever the man is reporting before they confirm there's actually Christian persecution up North?

Don't we see reports about these incidents by local media from time to time? This is not even that started in 2025 sef.

I have never seen anyone who deals solely on screwdrivers sef

Screwdriver salesman ke?

GloriousGbola:
@semid4lyfe my next post may be deleted by spam bot

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/world/africa/nigeria-christmas-bombing-republicans.html

this is a link to the nyt ariticle in full

The same author of the NYT article was lending her voice to the fight against religious persecution in northern Nigeria less than 2 years ago.

Fast forward to January 2026 she carry their media fight against Trump and Republicans write article to discredit the airstrike against the Jihadists in Nigeria.

BlueRayDick:
The same author of the NYT article was lending her voice to the fight against religious persecution in northern Nigeria less than 2 years ago.

Fast forward to January 2026 she carry their media fight against Trump and Republicans write article to discredit the airstrike against the Jihadists in Nigeria.

The nyt article is not claiming there is not persecution of Christians in northern Nigeria. It is calling attention to the fact that the case for genocide of Christians in Nigeria may be premised off false and made up information.

Saddam was a dictator who gassed kurds with chemical weapons. But when the US went after him, they claimed he had wmd proper.

If the trump admin cannot filter and source for accurate information, tomorrow they may decide that facts someone spews from his arse on this thread are hard data.

GloriousGbola:
The nyt article is not claiming there is not persecution of Christians in northern Nigeria. It is calling attention to the fact that the case for genocide of Christians in Nigeria may be premised off false and made up information.

Saddam was a dictator who gassed kurds with chemical weapons. But when the US went after him, they claimed he had wmd proper.

If the trump admin cannot filter and source for accurate information, tomorrow they may decide that facts someone spews from his arse on this thread are hard data.

How come Trump and the Senate never referenced Papa Screwdriver in all their sessions?

We have seen Tuggar drilled twice on CNN, and nobody mentioned about this guy.

We have seen a Bishop appear before the US Senate, and nobody mentioned this guy.

We have heard the US say they collaborated with Nigeria to strike Sokoto, and nobody mentioned this guy.

If this is not Babanla propaganda, I don't know what is.

I just fear for the man's life sha.

izzou:
How come Trump and the Senate never referenced Papa Screwdriver in all their sessions?

We have seen Tuggar drilled twice on CNN, and nobody mentioned about this guy.

We have seen a Bishop appear before the US Senate, and nobody mentioned this guy.

We have heard the US say they collaborated with Nigeria to strike Sokoto, and nobody mentioned this guy.

If this is not Babanla propaganda, I don't know what is.

I just fear for the man's life sha.

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But this screwdriver salesman is also an unlikely source of research that U.S. Republican lawmakers have used to promote the misleading idea that Christians are being singled out for slaughter in Africa’s most populous nation. Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, Representative Riley Moore of Virginia and Representative Chris Smith of New Jersey have all cited his work.

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Mr. Cruz, Mr. Moore and Mr. Smith did not respond to requests for comment. A White House spokeswoman did not address questions about Mr. Umeagbalasi’s data and methods, but said in a statement that “the massacre of Christians by radical, terrorist scum will not be tolerated.”

Nyt have effectively called out Cruz, Moore and Smith as relying on information from emeka. It is for them to counter this.

GloriousGbola:
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Nyt have effectively called out Cruz, Moore and Smith as relying on information from emeka. It is for them to counter this.

Their so-called calling out makes absolute no sense.

There are several reports of genocides reported in the mainstream media in Nigeria. Almost every Christmas/Easter a truck would run over Christians procession in Bauchi or Gombe.

Is that also a report from Emeka the screwdriver seller?

It's like you don't know how low one's mental faculty one must be to believe this narrative NYT is trying to paint. All the Christian missionaries in the north who have been working for years in the north have data they keep on these things. Some of the cases that don't even get reported in media.

BlueRayDick:
Their so-called calling out makes absolute no sense.

There are several reports of genocides reported in the mainstream media in Nigeria. Almost every Christmas/Easter a truck would run over Christians procession in Bauchi or Gombe.

Is that also a report from Emeka the screwdriver seller?

It's like you don't know how low one's mental faculty one must be to believe this narrative NYT is trying to paint.

Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons
He invaded a sovereign natiom
He gassed kurds

But when the US decided to invade Iraq, they decided to go with a completely made up narrative - that Saddam had wmd and that he had sourced uranium from niger


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyyhvgZpleo?si=x5OkFvh94cHmxrqk

This was Colin Powell asserting they had hard evidence

So what is the difference between then and now?

It is like you having a person going to face disciplinary committee and rather than address actual documented accusations, you go with fabricated and inflated inconsistentcies.

As an aside, same thing that happened in the oj case. Trying to frame a guilty man. Why reference made up facts when there are actual facts on ground?

Is it Because you are looking for performative outrage justification?

GloriousGbola:
Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons
He invaded a sovereign natiom
He gassed kurds

But when the US decided to invade Iraq, they decided to go with a completely made up narrative - that Saddam had wmd and that he had sourced uranium from niger


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyyhvgZpleo?si=x5OkFvh94cHmxrqk

This was Colin Powell asserting they had hard evidence

So what is the difference between then and now?

It is like you having a person going to face disciplinary committee and rather than address actual documented accusations, you go with fabricated and inflated inconsistentcies.

As an aside, same thing that happened in the oj case. Trying to frame a guilty man. Why reference made up facts when there are actual facts on ground?

Is it Because you are looking for performative outrage justification?

Forget Saddam Hssein and Iraq.

I am asking you as a Nigerian who lives in Nigeria, follows Nigerian news and is well aware of what is happening in this country :

Is it false that Christians get killed in 100's in Plataeu state?

Is it false that Christians get killed in religious violence In kaduna state from time to time?

Is it false that Christians on Christmas procession get run over by trucks that specifically targeted them in terror attacks in Gombe state not once or twice in recent times?

Is it false that as recent as today there's a report in the media of over 100 church goers abducted in Kaduna state?

BlueRayDick:
Forget Saddam Hssein and Iraq.

I am asking you as a Nigerian who lives in Nigeria, follows Nigerian news and is well aware of what is happening in this country :

Is it false that Christians get killed in 100's in Plataeu state?

Is it false that Christians get killed in religious violence In kaduna state from time to time?

Is it false that Christians on Christmas procession get run over by trucks that specifically targeted them in terror attacks in Gombe state not once or twice in recent times?

Is it false that as recent as today there's a report in the media of over 100 church goers abducted in Kaduna state?

The report from nyt states that rather than reference this information you have put up , team trump chose to reference made up unreliable information from a corner corner NGO.

The senators named in the article are yet to respond denying this.

Are you saying the two cannot be true?

That Christians are being prosecuted and

that the Trump administration rather than rely on accurate records of Christian persecution, is embracing made up and inflated records?

Trump and Emeka the screwdriver seller sharing Intel

GloriousGbola:
The report from nyt states that rather than reference this information you have put up , team trump chose to reference made up unreliable information from a corner corner NGO.

The senators named in the article are yet to respond denying this.

Are you saying the two cannot be true?

That Christians are being prosecuted and

that the Trump administration rather than rely on accurate records of Christian persecution, is embracing made up and inflated records?

The fact that you are still seeing any sense in that gibberish NYT published still amazes me.

To start with, where did the US mention categorically that they premised the airstrike on Emeka screwdriver's account?

To the best of my knowledge the whole Christian genocide issue got the attention of the US government when Rev Dachomo made videos which was posted on Twitter which generated widespread attention. To back this up I have attached screenshot of Riley Moore actually warning Nigerian authorities they would be held accountable should anything happen to Rev Dachomo who raised the alarm.

Also the US delegation came to Nigeria, visited IDPs in the middle belt and spoke with victims of the numerous attacks against the Christian minority in the north. Attached is The Punch newspaper report that Riley Moore Left heartbroken following his visit to Nigeria to investigate the Christian genocide claims.

https://punchng.com/my-trip-to-nigeria-heartbreaking-us-congressman-moore/

Are you saying with bold face that the US government didn't premise the airstrike on what Riley Moore saw himself in Nigeria but on what Emeka the screwdriver salesman wrote several months ago?

CrystalTiger:
Trump and Emeka the screwdriver seller sharing Intel

This Trump jeans na stock jeans 😂

BlueRayDick:
The fact that you are still seeing any sense in that gibberish NYT published still amazes me.

To start with, where did the US mention categorically that they premised the airstrike on Emeka screwdriver's account?

To the best of my knowledge the whole Christian genocide issue got the attention of the US government when Rev Dachomo made videos which was posted on Twitter which generated widespread attention. To back this up I have attached screenshot of Riley Moore actually warning Nigerian authorities they would be held accountable should anything happen to Rev Dachomo who raised the alarm.

Also the US delegation came to Nigeria, visited IDPs in the middle belt and spoke with vatous victims of the numerous attacks against the Christian minority in the north. Attached is also The Punch newspaper reports Riley Moore Left heartbroken following his visit to Nigeria to investigate the Christian genocide claims.

https://punchng.com/my-trip-to-nigeria-heartbreaking-us-congressman-moore/

Are you saying with bold face that the US government didn't premise the airstrike on what Riley Moore saw himself in Nigeria but on what Emeka the screwdriver salesman wrote several months ago?

There is a systematic genocidal campaign by the Fulani Muslim radicals in the Middle Belt of this country to push these Christians off their ancestral land,” he said.

The US lawmaker alleged that the violence in parts of the Middle Belt amounted to a coordinated campaign against Christian communities, claiming they are being driven off their ancestral lands.

“There is a systematic genocidal campaign by the Fulani Muslim radicals in the Middle Belt of this country to push these Christians off their ancestral land,” he reiterated.

Despite the grim accounts, Moore said his delegation held what he described as a positive meeting with the Nigerian government, expressing optimism that concrete steps could follow.

“We did have a positive meeting with the Nigerian government. There are positive things coming out of that government that I think will put us on a path toward a strategic security framework and a cooperative agreement to start addressing these issues,” he said.

Moore added that the protection of Christians facing violence remained a top concern for both him and the US President, noting the broader security challenges posed by terrorist groups in other parts of the country.

“First and foremost, my concern, and the President’s concern, is for these Christians, our brothers and sisters who are being slaughtered,” he said. “But there is also the terrorist threat in the North East from Boko Haram and ISIS, who are responsible for the unwanted deaths of Christians, non-Christians, and Muslims alike,” he added.

The Congressman described Nigeria’s security crisis as multi-layered, stressing the need for a comprehensive approach that addresses both terrorism in the North East and what he termed persecution in the Middle Belt.

“The problem is two-tier, and we have to address this Christian persecution and genocide that is happening in the Middle Belt of this country,” he said.

The article contradicts the actions taken
According to riley

Persecution in the middle belt
Terrorism in the North East

So on what basis did we now have missile attacks in sokoto in the north west?

The comprehensive approach was a missle attack in a completely different area?

GloriousGbola:
The article contradicts the actions taken
According to riley

Persecution in the middle belt
Terrorism in the North East

So on what basis did we now have missile attacks in sokoto in the north west?

The comprehensive approach was a missle attack in a completely different area?

You didn't answer my questions but chose to deflect to another issue completely

BlueRayDick:
You didn't answer my questions but chose to deflect to another issue completely

My second quote is lifted directly from your article

Riley did not visit sokoto. He did not visit the north west

It is right there in the article where he spoke about terrorism in the North East and Christian persecution in the Middle belt by fulani gangs

So the attack in sokoto which is in the North West is not premised on any information gathered during his visit.

Or maybe I am missing how a missile attack in sokoto would protect Christians in benue. Or stop terrorists in borno.

It is really very simple. NYT says Riley and Co referenced Emeka the NGO (na you dey call am screwdriver). It is for them to come out and deny. I do not have the energy or time to start sifting through these politicians speeches, but I suspect nyt has the all the information on hand and will make more available if Riley and Co issue loud denials.

GloriousGbola:
The nyt article is not claiming there is not persecution of Christians in northern Nigeria. It is calling attention to the fact that the case for genocide of Christians in Nigeria may be premised off false and made up information.

Saddam was a dictator who gassed kurds with chemical weapons. But when the US went after him, they claimed he had wmd proper.

If the trump admin cannot filter and source for accurate information, tomorrow they may decide that facts someone spews from his arse on this thread are hard data.

How did you know the White House sourced their info from the screwdriver seller and didn't do proper intelligence gathering on the matter?

GloriousGbola:
My second quote is lifted directly from your article

Riley did not visit sokoto. He did not visit the north west

It is right there in the article where he spoke about terrorism in the North East and Christian persecution in the Middle belt by fulani gangs

So the attack in sokoto which is in the North West is not premised on any information gathered during his visit.

Or maybe I am missing how a missile attack in sokoto would protect Christians in benue. Or stop terrorists in borno.

It is really very simple. NYT says Riley and Co referenced Emeka the NGO (na you dey call am screwdriver). It is for them to come out and deny. I do not have the energy or time to start sifting through these politicians speeches, but I suspect nyt has the all the information on hand and will make more available if Riley and Co issue loud denials.

NYT claim makes no sense and reads more like a hatchet job by a media outfit that is out to use Nigerian situation to continue their war against republican party in America.

The fact that the article was specifically mentioning Republican lawmakers in its subheading makes it pretty obvious ( Spotty research from a Christian activist has been used by Republican lawmakers to justify U.S. intervention in the country ).

Your are the one making the North West vs North East argument on behalf of NYT which was not the meat of the matter in NYT's publication.

By the way the Sokoto airstrike was reported as the first and may not be the last if the Nigerian authorities do not take pro-active steps to address the issues that required the US intervention.

The same U.S wey capture Venezuela president like "point and kill" cat fish go rely on a random screw-driver's intel for operation.




Mehn......i pour people spit inside thier eyes

Segedinho:
The same U.S wey capture Venezuela president like "point and kill" cat fish go rely on a random screw-driver's intel for operation.




Mehn......i pour people spit inside thier eyes

There is difference between intel and propaganda

Their intel will be top notch

Emeka own is used for propaganda by Senators to sell it to their public. Military don't use propaganda to plan strikes.