Nigeria’s Christians slaughtered: 62K since 2009, 7K in 2025. EU silent for oil; progressives ignore. Genocide unfit for narrative.
Newsroom (31/10/2025, Gaudium Press ) Nigeria is burning, and the world is looking away. Since 2009, more than 62,000 Christians have been butchered in a relentless campaign of murder, rape, arson, and annihilation. In 2025 alone, 7,087 souls were snuffed out—1,100 in Benue State, including 280 in the Yelewata massacre. Fulani jihadists, Boko Haram, and ISWAP wage holy war with AK-47s and machetes, yet the European Union stays mute, clutching oil contracts while human lives drip into the dust. Progressives who flood streets for Gaza? Crickets for Nigeria. Some black lives, it seems, don’t matter when the victims are Christian.
Nigeria’s 229 million people split roughly 46% Christian, 54% Muslim. The Muslim north enforces Sharia in 12 states, sidelining Christians from jobs, education, and safety. The Christian south offers refuge. But the Middle Belt—where Christian farmers clash with Muslim Fulani herders—is Ground Zero for genocide.
What began as resource disputes, fueled by desertification, has morphed into jihad. Fulani Ethnic Militia (FEM) don’t just graze cattle; they seek an Islamist caliphate. Since 2021, they’ve caused 42% of civilian deaths in central Nigeria—outkilling even Boko Haram. Boko Haram, born in 2002 to reject “Western” education, launched its insurgency in 2009, aiming for an Islamic emirate. Its splinter, ISWAP, pledged to ISIS in 2015. They bomb markets, abduct schoolgirls (remember Chibok’s 276 in 2014?), and execute Christians mid-prayer. Since 2009, they’ve torched 1,400 schools and killed tens of thousands.
The numbers scream genocide: 13,000 faith-driven murders from 2015–2023 (Open Doors); 52,250 over 14 years (Intersociety). In 2024, 5,000 Christians died, 2,000 abducted. This year, 7,800 kidnapped—including 14 Catholic priests. Kidnappings bankroll a multimillion-dollar ransom racket. Women endure rape and forced conversion. Over 1,000 Christian villages lie in ashes; 20,000 square miles annexed. Sharia zones brandish blasphemy laws like swords.
And the Nigerian government? Complicit. Under President Bola Tinubu, security forces—often Islamist-leaning—abandon villages, even arm militants. No convictions for the 2022 Owo church massacre or the 2023 Plateau Christmas killings. Former President Muhammadu Buhari, a Fulani Muslim, stands accused of greenlighting jihadists to Islamize Nigeria. The regime dismisses it as “herder-farmer clashes” to dodge “Islamophobia” charges. But Fulani spare Muslim villages and torch churches. Boko Haram and ISWAP behead Christians for refusing conversion. This isn’t conflict; it’s conquest, echoing the 19th-century Sokoto Caliphate.
The EU, ever vocal on Uyghurs and Rohingya, yawns. A 2024 European Parliament resolution condemned the carnage—but no sanctions, no aid cuts. In 2025, ECR MEPs demanded action; Brussels mumbled “humanitarian” platitudes. EU-Nigeria trade hit €35 billion in 2024, greased by oil and migration pacts. Gaza? €200 million in aid since 2023, plus endless resolutions. Why the disparity? Christians don’t check the progressive victim box.
Gaza’s script—Muslims versus “white settler” Israel—feeds anti-colonial dogma. Nigeria’s black-on-black horror, with Muslim herders as oppressors and Christian farmers as victims, shreds the “Islamophobia is the real evil” narrative. As Bill Maher quipped, “This is more genocidal than Gaza, but no Jews, so no news.”
Pro-Palestine protests paralyze Western cities. “Free Nigerian Christians”? Never heard of it. Progressives, elites, and NGOs ignore that 82% of global faith-based killings occur in Nigeria (Open Doors 2024). Why? No ideological points to score.
History proves apathy emboldens killers. Nigerian bishops warn Christianity could vanish in 50 years. The EU must act: hold Abuja accountable, slap sanctions, push for a UN peacekeeping force, and brand FEM terrorists.
For the love of God, Brussels, USA and the “rules based order nations” stop playing Pontius Pilate. The blood of Nigeria’s Christians is on your hands.
- Raju Hasmukh with files from https://brusselssignal.eu/
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