Why has Trump ordered strikes in Nigeria and what has it got to do with the persecution of Christians?

Parts of the US right have for years been amplifying claims that Christians face violence in Nigeria, a notion the US president has helped to encourage…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/26/nigeria-why-did-trump-order-us-strikes-bomb-attack-isis-christians

 

Nigerian human rights activist tells it like it is (Dan Barker and Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freethought Radio podcast)

Dr. Leo Igwe, who is a noted human rights activist in Nigeria, talks about the religious violence in Nigeria and explains why Trump’s saber-rattling isn’t helping. The video version of this interview is also available on YouTube.

Interview: 

https://ffrf.org/news/freethought-radio/freethought-today-december-11-2025/

#getreadywithme

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rIvLnXYSPNc?si=RkA4Pn1ThfJ1PFdf

 

Nigeria rejects US military threat over alleged Christian killings - POLITICO

Nigeria denies Christians are persecuted: Cruz and Trump relied on old reports from more than a decade ago when Nigeria's home-grown Boko Haram Islamic group launched an insurgency to enforce their brutal interpretation of Shariah law, said Bwala...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/02/nigeria-rejects-us-military-threat-over-alleged-christian-killings-00632931 

 

Trump threatens to go into Nigeria ‘guns-a-blazing’ over attacks on Christians

US president says he ordered Pentagon to begin planning for action, without mentioning Muslim persecution…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/01/trump-nigeria-christian-persecution?

 

Nigerian police raid suspected gay wedding, arrest more than 200 people | CNN

Same-sex relationships are criminalized in Nigeria, and its penal code approves a punishment of up to 14 years in prison for people who are convicted of entering into a same-sex civil union...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/29/africa/nigeria-gay-marriage-raid-intl-afr/index.html

Revealed: the US adviser who tried to swing Nigeria’s 2015 election

Sam Patten, an American consultant later mired in controversy, exploited emails obtained by Tal Hanan's team…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/18/cambridge-analytica-staff-leaked-emails-team-jorge-nigeria-election-sam-patten-tal-hanan

‘Team Jorge’ and Cambridge Analytica meddled in Nigeria election, emails reveal

Four weeks before a pivotal presidential election in Nigeria, an Israeli private operative specialising in political "black ops" was preparing his trip to the country. On 17 January 2015 the man, who used the alias "Jorge", emailed Cambridge Analytica, the political consultancy he was coordinating with on a covert plan to manipulate Africa's largest democracy...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/16/team-jorge-and-cambridge-analytica-meddled-in-nigeria-election-emails-reveal

Facts undercut the rationale for Trump's latest travel ban | TheHill

On Jan. 31, the Trump administration expanded its country-specific travel ban by barring immigrants from Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. When President Trump issued his first travel ban three years ago — commonly called the “Muslim ban” because six of the targeted countries are predominantly Muslim — many Americans took to the streets. The Trump administration revised the ban several times as it worked its way through legal challenges in federal court. On June 26, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the third iteration of the original travel ban.....
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/482081-facts-undercut-the-rationale-for-trumps-latest-travel-ban

Trump scapegoats almost a quarter of Africa’s population - The Washington Post

The latest set of countries targeted by travel bans include Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation and biggest economy.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/02/05/trump-scapegoats-almost-quarter-africas-population/

US returns $41,000 seized from Texas nurse who planned to open clinic - the guardian

Anthonia Nwaorie will still sue after US customs seized money she was carrying en route to Nigeria to open a medical facility ....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/29/us-returns-41000-seized-from-texas-nurse-who-planned-to-open-clinic

Meet the Former Republican Governor Fighting the Worst Humanitarian Crisis Since 1945 -- TIME

Four simultaneous famines ...
http://time.com/4866580/famine-world-food-programme-humanitarian-crisis/

Yet Another Blockbuster Story About Hillary and the Clinton Foundation Turns Out To Be Nothing

When I picked up my copy of the LA Times this morning, I was greeted by the headline on the right. It's about someone you may have heard of: Gilbert Chagoury, a billionaire from Nigeria.

Chagoury is a prominent example of the nexus between Hillary Clinton’s State Department and the family’s Clinton Foundation, which has come under renewed scrutiny during her presidential run. The organization, founded as a way for the Clintons to tap their vast network for charitable works, has tackled some of the steepest challenges in the developing world, including rebuilding Haiti and fighting AIDS in Africa. It has also come under fire for its willingness to accept money from foreign governments with interest in swaying U.S. policy during Clinton’s time as secretary of State, and the controversial histories of some donors. A nexus!

So what's up with Chagoury? Here's a snapshot:
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2016/08/yet-another-blockbuster-story-about-hillary-and-clinton-foundation-turns-out-be-n