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 Politics › 30,000 Fulani Militants Worsening Religious Violence In Nigeria - USCIRF Report by ProfDumbledor(op): 8:26pm On May 29 |
JOHANNESBURG — An estimated 30,000 mostly Muslim Fulani militants are operating in Nigeria, causing "worsening insecurity and religious freedom violations," according to an influential new report. The report, by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), states "violence by Fulani militants caused the highest number of deaths among all religious communities in Nigeria over the last year, as compared to attacks by organized insurgent groups and criminal gangs." The Fulanis, so-called herders of livestock, have, according to the USCIRF report, "targeted Christian (farming) communities in the Middle Belt and, increasingly, the South, burning homes and churches as well as kidnapping, raping, and murdering." CHRISTIANS TARGETED IN SYSTEMATIC KIDNAPPING CAMPAIGN IN NIGERIA BY JIHADI HERDSMEN, EXPERTS SAY Funeral ceremony for Christians killed in Bindi village Nigeria Funerals were held for about 27 Christians reportedly killed by Islamist Fulani tribesmen in Bindi village, Plateau State, Nigeria, on July 28, 2025. (Christian Solidarity International) But a former counterterrorism expert at the State Department told Fox News Digital that the kind of strikes the U.S., working with Nigerian government forces, have recently carried out in Nigeria’s North against Islamist terrorist organizations such as Boko Haram and Islamic State, wouldn’t work against the Fulanis in the predominantly Christian central areas of the country. Sterling Tilley, former acting director within the Bureau of Counterterrorism, who has worked in Nigeria for the State Department, said that the U.S. "militarily dealing with the farmer-herder conflict is not advisable because it is likely to bring more instability in the country." Tilley, now director of the Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Foreign Affairs Fellowship at Howard University, added, "There are some steps that can be taken to quell the violence, but there must be Nigerian political will to do so." Young Nigerians protest the killings against Christians in Benue state. Young people protest against the killings following a deadly attack by Fulani militants on Christian-majority villages in Benue state, that left 218 people dead and 6,000 displaced. The protest took place in Benue state in June 2025. (Open Doors UK) This week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth commented on the recent strikes ordered by President Donald Trump on Nigeria, saying, "Maybe a year ago, [the president] heard the call of Nigerian Christians who were being targeted and killed by ISIS. And he said, 'Pete, I want the War Department to focus on ensuring that we do everything we can to protect those Christians.'" NIGERIA NAMED EPICENTER OF GLOBAL KILLINGS OF CHRISTIANS OVER FAITH IN 2025, REPORT SAYS Christians make up approximately 48% of Nigeria’s population. Fulani militants, the USCIRF report stated, "have often carried out operations during Christian holidays such as Christmas or Easter to further maximize the psychological impact, terrifying those communities from gathering to celebrate or worship. During attacks, assailants sometimes utter slogans with religious connotations, such as "Allahu Akbar" (Arabic for "God is great"  . But, according to the report, Muslims are being attacked too. "Fulani assailants have not spared Muslims, raiding herders’ cattle and violently attacking non-Fulani Muslim communities," the report added. "Violence at the hands of militants from the Fulani tribe far outnumbers violence from all other militant groups such as Boko Haram or ISWAP (Islamic State West African Province)," Henrietta Blyth, CEO of Open Doors UK & Ireland, an organization that highlights the persecution of Christians, told Fox News Digital. While her organization was not part of the report, she said, "My heart has been broken as I have heard stories from women and men who have seen their beloved family members butchered in front of them or carried off into a life of slavery." AFRICAN UNION CHIEF DENIES GENOCIDE CLAIMS AGAINST CHRISTIANS AS CRUZ WARNS NIGERIAN OFFICIALS Blyth added: "The situation is complicated, and as the report concludes, it is too simplistic to say all perpetrators are religiously motivated. What is undisputable is that Christians are highly vulnerable and often the victims, paying the price in blood. They desperately need protection and, for hundreds of thousands driven from their homes, the chance to heal and rebuild their lives." The USCIRF report also stated, "Criticism of responses to Fulani militant violence from federal and state authorities has often described their responses as unsatisfactory at best and complicit at worst." Tilley told Fox News Digital that elections are to be held in Nigeria next year, and "the Fulani do have considerable political influence as a voting bloc. Thus, the Nigerian government seems reluctant to take actions necessary to quell the violence for fear that they could lose their base of support in the North and Middle Belt." Fox News Digital reached out to the Nigerian government for comment but did not receive a response by publication time. https://www.foxnews.com/world/christian-farming-communities-under-siege-us-report-names-fulani-militants-nigerias-deadliest-threat |
| Travel › Trump Admin Considers Adding Nigeria & 35 Other Countries To Travel Ban List- WP by ProfDumbledor(op): 7:55pm On Jun 14, 2025 |
Whahala dey oo! Trump administration considers adding 36 countries to travel ban listhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/06/14/trump-travel-ban-expansion/ 7 Likes 3 Shares
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| Politics › Re: Fact-check: Tinubu Aide Shares Misleading Image On Obi’s Water Transport Record by ProfDumbledor(m): 8:42pm On Apr 29, 2025 |
helinues:Empty as usual. 1 Like |
| Business › Re: Deji Akinyanju Is The Founder of Chicken Republic by ProfDumbledor(m): 12:19pm On Apr 08, 2024 |
Tribal man, we see you. Na una own kilimanjaro, jevinik and every popular restuarant in nigeria abi? Village mentality dey worry you. Truths9ja: 2 Likes 1 Share |
| Food › Re: See The Beans I Bought For 300 Naira In My Area by ProfDumbledor(m): 12:21pm On Feb 27, 2024 |
Kai! Yoruba people and excessive red oil consumption are just like siamese twins. What da fVck is this?  |
| Politics › Re: "Nigeria Reaping The Benefits Of Reform" - Ministry Of Information by ProfDumbledor(m): 12:16pm On Feb 26, 2024 |
Has anyone noticed that the currently constituted NBS has been weaponized to be dishing out statistics that are favourable to Tinubu admistration and the South West? Let me stop here. |
| Politics › CSU Says Tinubu Presented Forged Certificate To INEC- Peoples Gazette by ProfDumbledor(op): 8:41am On Oct 04, 2023 |
President Bola Tinubu presented a forged degree certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) when he filed his paperwork to lead Nigeria in June 2022, Peoples Gazette can report based on the testimony of the institution he arrogated, introducing a new but potentially fatal front in the ongoing battle to oust the Nigerian leader for his documented misdeeds from years gone by. The official repudiation of Mr Tinubu’s certificate — the only academic qualification he presented to the electoral office — came at a deposition of school officials on Tuesday in Chicago. An expanded transcript of the session is still being processed, but The Gazette has learnt about what has perhaps been the most crucial expectation of Nigerians: How the school would characterise Mr Tinubu’s certificate under oath and penalty of perjury. Caleb Westberg, the registrar at Chicago State University, said Mr Tinubu’s certificate, dated June 22, 1979, and tendered to INEC on June 17, 2022, was not issued by the school and its administrators could, therefore, not be able to authenticate its source, The Gazette learnt. Mr Westberg, CSU’s registrar since November 2020, also said, during the deposition that lasted about 5.5 hours, that Mr Tinubu did not apply for a replacement certificate, nor was he ever issued one. The categorical statement capped a successful outcome for the monthslong legal strategy of Atiku Abubakar, Mr Tinubu’s main opponent, who approached the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois in Chicago to ascertain the authenticity or otherwise of the document. Federal district judge Nancy Maldonado granted a final order for CSU administrators to turn over all documents relating to Mr Tinubu to the school and also sit down for deposition by an adversarial team of lawyers deployed by Mr Abubakar. Mr Tinubu, sensing the intractable consequences of the proceeding, vigorously fought to thwart its successful outcome, with his lawyers warning the judge in a September 21 hearing that releasing the documents with deposition would inevitably inflict severe, irreparable harm against the Nigerian president. The school had long insisted that Mr Tinubu was its student, entering in 1977 and graduating in 1979, but its inability to authenticate the certificate the Nigerian president submitted would ripple through Nigeria’s over 200 million population for the foreseeable future. Previously in 1999, Mr Tinubu had lied under oath when he ran for governor of Lagos, claiming he obtained a degree from the prestigious University of Chicago. However, he managed to escape being held accountable for the breach because he had been elected before it was discovered, and he did not submit a certificate backing his claim, only an affidavit that was later found to be fiction, and the Nigerian Supreme Court said he could not be charged with crimes as a serving governor. He subsequently stopped claiming attendance at the University of Chicago, holding on instead to a claim that he attended Chicago State University, one of Illinois State University campuses traditionally popular among black people. A spokesman for the president was not immediately available for reaction to the development on Tuesday night. But the president’s allies have suggested publicly that the evidence was inconsequential and propagated the Supreme Court’s readiness to throw it out. The president’s allies are also banking on the muddled circumstances of the president’s certificate spiel, believing his Nigerian lawyers would be able to convince the Supreme Court to focus more on the school’s position that Mr Tinubu was a student rather than how he came about parading a forged certificate. On Monday evening, shortly after the school dumped records into the electronic filing portal used by lawyers to all parties, Mr Tinubu’s team circulated a misrepresented account of the documents, successfully misleading some media outlets to run a claim that the school had authenticated Mr Tinubu’s certificate. They also said a replacement was issued to Mr Tinubu on June 27, 1997, in what seemed to be a reference to the certificate the school had submitted following a 2022 subpoena obtained from a state court by Nigerian lawyer Mike Enahoro-Ebah. Mr Enahoro-Ebah received the certificate, dated June 27, 1979, alongside all academic records of Mr Tinubu from CSU in August 2022. But the certificate was signed by Elnora Daniel and Niva Lubin, who were not at the school in 1979 and carried June 27, 1979, as its issuance date. After comparing the certificate he was given by CSU to the certificate Mr Tinubu submitted to INEC, dated June 22, 1979, Mr Enahoro-Ebah promptly returned to Nigeria with the records and filed a criminal complaint against Mr Tinubu for forgery. But the case was stalled in an Abuja court for months before the election and has not been heard even months after the election. Mr Atiku used the conflicting records to approach the federal court in Chicago for a subpoena as part of his ongoing case against Mr Tinubu in Nigeria, culminating in Tuesday’s deposition that established Mr Tinubu forged his certificate in violation of the Constitution. Mr Tinubu was narrowly declared the winner of the February 25 presidential election, and he was only sworn in on May 29. But today’s development could all but mark a putative end to his presidency due to the constitutional proscription against the submission of a fake certificate to the electoral office. Section 137 (1)(j) of the Nigerian Constitution (amended in 2010) specifically stated that no one would be legitimately elected president of Nigeria if the person “has presented a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission.” The records obtained from the school, the deposition and other material collected through the U.S. legal system are now being prepared for onward submission to the Nigeria Supreme Court, where a final decision on the presidential election challenge would be made on or before December 6, 2023. While the evidence may appear overwhelming to a plurality of Nigerians, its acceptance would still need to cross a formidable hurdle at the Supreme Court. This is because the court has conventionally rejected the introduction of new material at the top court level that was not previously argued during the initial trial. Mr Abubakar himself admitted before two U.S. judges who heard his discovery application that it would be a daunting challenge to convince the Supreme Court to accept the files, yet not entirely improbable. Mr Abubakar lost at the Court of Appeal, the initial court for presidential election disputes, when a panel of five judges on September 6 said his petition was too weak to overturn Mr Tinubu’s election. Mr Tinubu’s lawyers, in the U.S., argued against granting Mr Abubakar’s application to extract their client’s records over an admissibility challenge. But Ms Maldonado, nonetheless, said in her September 30 judgement that the records should be released, and any questions about usefulness would be answered by the Nigerian Supreme Court. Mr Abubakar filed the application to obtain Mr Tinubu’s CSU records and depose its officials on August 2, 2023, coming under Section 1782, the statute that allows the U.S. to turn over records “for use in a proceeding before a foreign tribunal.” [left][/left] https://gazettengr.com/just-in-its-official-chicago-state-university-says-nigerias-president-bola-tinubu-presented-forged-certificate-to-inec/ |
| Politics › Re: See Tinubu Fingers, Does He Bath At All? - Photos by ProfDumbledor(m): 8:02pm On Mar 03, 2023 |
Yoruba people are typically dirty. 1 Like |
| Politics › Breaking: Audio leak of Atiku, Okowa And Tambuwal Planning Election Rigging by ProfDumbledor(op): 12:29pm On Feb 24, 2023 |
This is quite damning. I hope Buhari does something drastic and immediate to arrest this evil plan.
— Don 🤦🏾♂️ (@mgbikss) February 24, 2023 |
| Politics › Re: Osibanjo Should Resign First, Then Sue Me, Stop Using Federal Might- Jackson Ude by ProfDumbledor(m): 10:37am On Jul 10, 2020 |
Notice that all the Yoruba e-warriors have come out of their Oshogbo cave to defend their own "pious fraud" Hushinbanjo. |
| Jobs/Vacancies › Re: N-Power Registration 2020: Share Your Experience by ProfDumbledor(m): 12:20pm On Jun 28, 2020 |
Ismaeelazeez:Me too |
| Health › Video Of A Mechanized Covid-19 Sanitation Tank Constructed In Nnewi by ProfDumbledor(op): 10:33am On Apr 25, 2020 |
I was wowed by this creativity and decided to bring to limelight. This is what we need in offices, shops, companies, streets and communities and not bucket of water and soap. Click and watch the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GAdxEMfL5M |
| Politics › Re: Nnamdi Kanu's Statement About Apostle Suleman & Igbos Worshipping In His Church by ProfDumbledor(m): 9:51am On Apr 24, 2020 |
But why is it that all the Redeem and Living Faith Churches in South East and South South are pastored by the Yorubas. You come to a local church in a village where 99% communicate in Igbo language and you install a Yoruba pastor to be the Sherperd. You need to have a Pastor who can communicate in a language the people will understand easily, except if the motivation here is pure tribalism and distrust. You want their money and donations but you don't want them to be leaders in your Church. Does it mean Igbo Pastors don't know how to preach or sweet talk members into emptying their pockets in the name of offerings, tithes, seed sowing and donations? So Nnamdi Kalu is right to question that motive. 1 Like |
| Politics › Re: This Online Business Will Make You 5000naira Daily by ProfDumbledor(m): 4:00pm On Mar 26, 2020 |
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| Politics › JUST IN: ISWAP Attack Different Locations In Borno & Yobo by ProfDumbledor(op): 11:52am On Feb 17, 2019 |
Ahmed Sakida the investigative journalist and a friend of Boko Haram who mediates between FG and BH just broke this news. I hope this will not be another reason to postpone the General election.
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| Politics › Re: Imo Governorship Candidates Dodge BBC Debate by ProfDumbledor(m): 2:59pm On Jan 19, 2019 |
Abagworo why did u not tell them that the venue of the debate -The Ridge Event Centre- belongs to AA gov candidate, Uche Nwosu? Seizing this opportunity, his supporters flooded the venue hoping to hijack the atmosphere but it turned out that it was only Uche Nwosu that was on stage. I really blame BBC for not doing enough research in selecting the venue for the debate as it matters a lot. Why will I go to my opponent's house to challenge him in a debate for an office all of us are gunning for? Abagworo be reasonable in answering this question so u will understand why other candidates did not attend. Don't u think it should have been a neutral ground? 1 Like 1 Share |
| Politics › Re: President Buhari Is Incompetent, Rewards Failure- Oby Ezekwesili by ProfDumbledor(op): 3:44pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
Why is he still keeping the likes of Fashola, Udo Udoma, Ministers of education and health? 3 Likes 1 Share |
| Politics › President Buhari Is Incompetent, Rewards Failure- Oby Ezekwesili by ProfDumbledor(op): 3:41pm On Dec 28, 2018 |
BY IKE UCHECHUKWU(CALABAR) Former Minister of Education and presidential candidate of Allied Congress Party of Nigeria,ACPN, Dr Oby Ezekwesili, has described President Muhammadu Buhari as incompetent and that he rewards incompetency by keeping his incompetent appointees in office. She made the remarks in Calabar on Friday while speaking with journalists on why she is running for the office of president. Her words: “We have seen serial failures in this administration. The president rewards incompetency. And I am not surprised because the president himself is incompetent but does not realise it. “What he does is to extend their stay in an office in which they have failed. We have seen it with the military. We have seen it with the police. “He has retained the Inspector General of police after the expiration of his tenure. It is it for stellar performance? This is an IG of police the president told the whole country he did not go to where he was assigned to go in Benue State. “What the president is essentially telling us is that the Nigerian life does not matter that much to him, otherwise he should be very aghast at the level of killings that happen.” According to her :“My greatest shock and one of my triggers for deciding to run for election not being a politician, as you all know, is that the debasement of the Nigerian life is the final straw that can turn us into a society of anarchy. “For it to be that children will grow up in this society and just come to the understanding that killing a person is a normal thing; you know, you can just do it, there is no consequence. My goodness! What kind of impunity is that? That is a dangerous level of impunity. “For me, I want to be the president of this country and be an effective commander-in-chief of our armed forces on the basis of competence, capacity and character. ” I would so do that work well that that the life of a Nigerian would be the epicentre of our development process. It has implications. It means that in terms of security, we would run the most efficient security system. “We would reform the security infrastructure of the country. We would find those brilliant ones in our military establishment that have been hidden away in an era of incompetency and low productivity. “We would also reform the systems within the military because when we look at the military anywhere, they are the basis of what is called management by objective. “And that idea is that when resources are made available, resources should lead to performance. And they should lead to accountability, they should lead to reward and when you are not getting it, you should fix it. And the president is not known to fix things that have gone wrong.” On the economy ,Ezekwesili said the president himself had rated his performance on the economy low and wondered why it took him four years to realise that his economic policies were bad, saying the ability to get the economy right was what the president lacked the capacity to do. She bemoaned the high level of poverty in the country and said as president she would focus on the right kind of policies, institutions that would promote investments and find innovative solutions to infrastructure deficit. https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/12/president-buhari-is-incompetent-rewards-failure-oby-ezekwesili/ 11 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Take A Look At Gov. Okorocha's Wasteful Xmas Tree, Xmas Park And Moulded Statues by ProfDumbledor(op): 6:07pm On Dec 08, 2018 |
arinzeejikonye:I have done that |
| Politics › Re: Take A Look At Gov. Okorocha's Wasteful Xmas Tree, Xmas Park And Moulded Statues by ProfDumbledor(op): 4:14pm On Dec 08, 2018 |
Pics. |
| Politics › Re: Take A Look At Gov. Okorocha's Wasteful Xmas Tree, Xmas Park And Moulded Statues by ProfDumbledor(op): 4:10pm On Dec 08, 2018 |
Mod my uploaded pictures are not appearing. I'm so freaking annoyed. The sizes are below 4mb, so could be the problem? |
| Politics › Re: Take A Look At Gov. Okorocha's Wasteful Xmas Tree, Xmas Park And Moulded Statues by ProfDumbledor(op): 4:07pm On Dec 08, 2018*. Modified: 6:06pm On Dec 08, 2018 |
ProfDumbledor: |
| Politics › Take A Look At Gov. Okorocha's Wasteful Xmas Tree, Xmas Park And Moulded Statues by ProfDumbledor(op): 3:55pm On Dec 08, 2018*. Modified: 2:33pm On Dec 23, 2018 |
While pensioners in Imo State are languishing in hunger, penury and ill-health as a result of several months of unpaid pension and frequent subjection to endless verifications exercises without pay, Gov. Okorocha is lavishing the Paris Club money meant for pension and salaries on building the tallest Xmas tree in Africa, Xmas park and moulding statues of people. Civil servants are being paid 70% of their salaries since 2015. It could be recalled that exactly this time 3 years ago, news broke that Okorocha spent 600m Naira building Xmas tree and decorating Owerri city. This year's spend is not yet known but I'm sure as hell it will rise. Who did we offend in Imo State? |
| Politics › Re: Reno Omokri Secretly On Nairaland by ProfDumbledor(m): 2:00pm On Nov 01, 2018 |
Shayetet13:I sent u mail. Pls check and respond. |
| Politics › Re: Live Broadcast: Nnamdi Kanu's World Press Broadcast From Jerusalem by ProfDumbledor(m): 6:07pm On Oct 21, 2018 |
Here is the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr9x-zBailQ |
| Politics › Re: Peace Returning To Apga In Imo by ProfDumbledor(m): 10:08pm On Oct 18, 2018 |
BREAKING NEWS !You lots are a disappointment. You greedy useless Abuja 'polithiefian', after destroying PDP u moved to APGA to wreck another havoc. Now that u have collected bribe and installed Ararume as your flag bearer, let me see how he will win. You come here to sue for peace after pocketing millions from the money man. You and your cronies will never know peace. |
| Politics › Re: Sokoto, Jigawa, Rivers, Ebonyi Are Capitals Of Poverty, Unemployment ― NBS by ProfDumbledor(m): 6:00pm On Oct 15, 2018 |
This report is suspicious. The DG of NBS Yemi Kale is from Osun, the State with the lowest poverty and misery rate. A State where civil service is the major industry with huge backlogs of unpaid salaries. 3 Likes |
| Politics › Re: Imo APC Primaries For Senatorial, Governorship, House Of Representatives (Photos by ProfDumbledor(m): 8:13pm On Oct 06, 2018 |
senatordave1:Who is the Chairman of the new cmtee? When and where was the committee set up? Who made the announcement and was it published in media? You and Abagworo are just one and the same. 1 Like |
| Education › Re: 2018 NDDC MSC And PHD Scholarship Application by ProfDumbledor(m): 6:17am On Sep 09, 2018 |
Finally........., You are hereby invited for the 2018 NDDC foreign scholarship oral interview which holds on 18/9/2018 by 7AM. Position: 6, Venue: Golden Tulip Hotel GRA, Port Harcourt. Come with your LGA ID, WAEC, NYSC, degree and birth certs; admission letter, intl passport/driver's license/voter's card, guarantor's letter, NDDC registration slip,passport and all other documents used for your NDDC registration. (SMS ID: So grateful to God. |
| Politics › Re: My Govt Facing Worst Persecution From Churches In Imo – Okorocha by ProfDumbledor(m): 5:09pm On Aug 20, 2018 |
Hell no Governor, that's not the origin of your problems with the church. It started when u knowingly issued a dud cheque to Assumption Cathedral, Owerri. |
