Trump is Right: There is Genocide of Christians in Northern Nigeria

And it has been going on for a long time. Nigeria and its yes-men are scrambling to continue to cover it.

The Numbers

There are up to 17 million Northern Christians in Nigeria. The range is from 10 to 25 million. The estimated total northern population is 90 million, with a range from 80 to 100 million. So 18% of the northern Nigeria population is Christian and the rest are Muslims.

11 million people out of Nigeria’s 200M+ population are displaced—more than 80% of those displaced are Northern Christians.

So 8.8 million+ Northern Christians are displaced out of a Northern Christian population of 17 million. That means ~52% of the Northern Christian population is displaced. Some have been displaced from their ancestral homes for over 20 years. There is no plan by the Nigerian state to reinstate them back to their ancestral lands. If this is not genocide and wholesale replacement, what will it then be called?

No outrage, not even of the performative type we have seen from fake Nigerian patriots all week. Trump has decided to act. He is doing what the Nigerian government should have done. Now, there is all this fake deflection and denials going on. We will not be fazed.

What We’re Asking

Stop killing Northern Christians, give our people their stolen lands back, and hold those responsible for genocide accountable at the ICJ in The Hague—that is all we are asking.

The Reality on the Ground

Radical Islamists have taken over Northern Christian villages and lands across Northern Nigeria. These areas have been erased, renamed, and resettled. For years, Nigerians kept quiet.

Now that there are no more Northern Christians to hunt, slaughter, enslave, extort, and decapitate, they have extended their atrocities to the wider moderate Muslims in the Northern region and the helpless farmers of the south—doing exactly what they did to Northern Christians for generations to these new victims.

Two Separate Crimes

Let’s not get it twisted—these are 2 different layers of crime:

1. The long-running, over 200-year-old forced Islamization and extermination of indigenous Northern Christians
2. The more recent banditry, kidnapping, and extortion of the general civilian rural population, most of whom are Muslims across the north

Two separate issues and two separate crimes that need to be stopped. The first issue is more urgent. Indigenous people in Northern Nigeria, who have lived there for millennia, are going extinct before our eyes.

If you have ever heard of Nok art, it is the ancient art created by Northern indigenous Christians. We are native to the land way before Islam came to this region.

A Warning

For generations, Northern Christians were the bulwark against the southern spread of radical Islam in Nigeria. Now that Northern Christians are almost all gone, Southern Christians may soon start to see the true meaning of persecution. They will understand what it means to be Christians in a state that is all Islamic but in name. The southward spread of banditry is just the beginning of the pangs.

Many people think Christianity is about tithe and offerings and shallow dancing in mega churches. Go to the north and see those practicing true Christianity. They burn your church and kill people in it, you are back the next Sunday praying in that church and forgiving your killers.

Gratitude and Calls to Action

I thank the Catholic Church for speaking up, the Middle Beltans in the diaspora for speaking up, the Republican caucus and Trump for speaking up.

The US should withhold all aid to Nigeria. The Nigerian government must show measurable steps to stop the Christian genocide in Northern Nigeria.

They should offer air cover to Nigerian soldiers to wipe out all radical Islamic terrorists across Northern Nigeria in particular and across Nigeria more broadly.

If the Nigerian state refuses this help, then the US should come in alone to get it done.

A Message to the Western World

I also want to enjoin the Western world and especially white men to stop pulling back and out of Africa. Christianity and the Western world is under assault. God has given you a great and tolerant civilization. It has brought peace and prosperity to the vast majority of people across the world. Anyone saying otherwise is a liar.

We have seen other civilizations whose only benefit is the mass enslavement of indigenous people. Western civilization is not perfect, but it is tolerant. It is open to feedback and therefore improves. There is no other like it in the world today.

Africa is contested territory. Your departure endangers everyday people, especially indigenous Christians. It also brings the site of inter-civilization clashes closer to your mainland. Don’t leave Africa alone. Don’t leave Christians—we are your outposts in these lands. Continue to stand with and for us. It is also in your self-interest.

Nigeria and Nigerians: Will You Speak Up for Your Own People?

If you have been affected by radical Islam jihad in Nigeria, don’t stop talking. They may tell you that it doesn’t count.

Through my own social network of 30K people online, I have had my personal story viewed over 20K times. It was shared widely in just 3 days. 3 people have submitted petitions to their reps in the USA. And we are getting help for survivors to tell their stories in Geneva.

Senator Ted Cruz’s bill is moving through the US Congress.

Don’t let anyone tell you your story does not matter. It does and your voice is powerful—use it. If you dont you betray the righteous dead. If you are silent you are just as bad as the radical jihadis and an aider and abetter of terrorism.

Resources

A lot of news coming from Nigeria is sanitized. I want you to go to TruthNigeria to learn the facts of what is happening to Christians.

If you want to support the persecuted, go to Equipping the Persecuted .

Read specific article on Nigeria Muslim Leaders response to Trump: https://truthnigeria.com/2025/11/muslim-leaders-break-silence-as-u-s-redesignates-nigeria/

Leaders to follow on the ground:

Mike Arnold: https://x.com/MikeArnoldTruth

Christian Emergency Alliance: https://x.com/ChristianEmerg1

Ozor Ndi Ozor: https://x.com/OzorNdiOzor

Deacon Nick: https://x.com/ProtecttheFaith

Somto Okonkwo: https://x.com/General_Somto

Zariyi Yusuf: https://x.com/ZariyiYusufu

The Ilaje Sultan: https://x.com/ogunmusi

Enoch Yohanna: https://x.com/EnochYohan

Sean Nelson: https://x.com/Sean_ADFIntl

Steven Kefas: https://x.com/SKefason

Next Steps

For now, I will take the fight offline. We are helping organize a rally against Christian genocide in DC in December. If you want to support in any way, DM me.

Thank you.

Note to Haters – Especially those from Nigeria

Thanks for your thoughtful comments. You are wise and that wisdom is why I will leave one more comment here before disengaging on this topic at this time in this group. For those who want to minimise the scale of the ongoing genocide of indigenous christians in Northern Nigeria. Let me be clear about where I’m coming from. I’m not here to “win” arguments or to educate people who are unwilling to do basic homework. As Africans, the work is on all of us to understand what is happening on our continent, not to reduce everything to US partisan talking points. If someone’s first instinct is “Trump is the issue” while communities have faced mass killings for decades, that already tells me enough about their priorities, and I won’t engage. Likewise, dismissing the scale of killings of indigenous Christians in northern Nigeria by saying “it’s worse in Sudan, so Trump should go there” – without even knowing that many of those being exterminated in Sudan are non-Arab Muslims – is not serious engagement. For context: since the 1950s–60s, Christian minorities in northern Nigeria have appealed for protection and, in some cases, for autonomy within the federation. Since the 1980s, mass killings of indigenous Christians in the north have accelerated. Today, Nigeria’s overall and child mortality rates are worse than in Yemen, Afghanistan or Syria. Roughly 1 in 10 children in northern Nigeria dies before age 5. That is a war-zone reality, even without a formal declaration of war. I understand the instinct among many Nigerians, especially in the south, to downplay this to “protect the image” of the country. But a war is already being waged in the north, and ordinary people—especially children—are paying the price. You are free to focus on whataboutism or Trump-centered debates. I’m here for something else: to bear witness, to amplify victims’ voices, and to invite those who care to support people and organisations working on the ground. Some colleagues have already reached out privately; that is where my energy goes. Whatever anyone thinks of Trump, his recent comments have forced global attention onto an issue Nigerian elites have tried to bury. For that, many indigenous Christians in the north are grateful—to him and to the Western evangelicals who have kept this on the agenda. We will continue to speak, organise, and work with anyone who is serious about defending our communities’ rights to life, land, and faith. I don’t owe anyone an apology or a perfectly crafted “debate take.” If I write here, it’s for the awareness of those who genuinely want to understand. Everyone else is free to keep debating; my people and I are focused on survival.