Nigeria Is Bleeding: Christians Are Being Slaughtered

I came back from work today and I couldn't even function. My heart is so heavy. I have no peace in my mind, only fear. Fear for my family. Fear for my friends. Fear for people back home in Nigeria, especially the Christians.

Before you rush to the comments, I need you to take your time and actually read this. Whether you are Nigerian or not, I am begging you to understand so you can help share this reality.

Christians in Nigeria are being killed. They are being murdered. There is a genocide of Christians going on right now. Just yesterday, in Kwara state, they entered a church again and killed people during a service. People are crying. They are targeting gatherings of Christians; they are hunting people in churches. They are trying to exterminate Christians in Nigeria.

Now, listen to me very carefully before you come here dismissing this as "American propaganda." I am Nigerian, born and bred. I have lived there; my parents are still living there right now. They are terrified for their lives. They are afraid to even go to church.

For those unaware, Nigeria is a wealthy country where politicians and government officials entirely consume and control all its resources. Nigerian citizens do not have access to these resources. There is massive insecurity, no jobs, and poverty everywhere, yet our politicians are among the highest paid in the world. What do they use the money for? We don’t know. Community leaders receive allocations meant to help the people, but they share the money among themselves while the communities remain in abject poverty. There are communities that have been wiped off the map, yet the government still sends allocations to these nonexistent communities just to steal the funds.

I want you to understand the situation before you say, "America is just coming to take Nigerian resources." You need to know that the average Nigerian citizen does not have access to those resources anyway. We haven't tasted the benefits of that wealth in years.

So, if foreign powers are going to come help keep Nigerian Christians alive, and they take those resources in the process, THEN SO BE IT.

Before they come for the resources, we want to be ALIVE. We want to be alive just to breathe. Our politicians have already destroyed Nigeria; they have sold their own people. Greedy monsters. They are already selling these resources to countries and foreign powers that are illegally mining and destroying nature in Nigeria. They borrow money on behalf of the Nigerian people and share it among themselves. So, stop saying this issue is about outsiders wanting our wealth—this is about exterminating Christians so Nigeria can become solely a Muslim nation and the wicked, greedy and cold-blooded politicians can continue in their evil ways.

I am so broken and angry. You need to understand the level of betrayal. These politicians are funding the bandits. They are funding the terrorists. A bandit leader was caught in the house of a Nigerian politician, and he wasn't even arrested—nothing was done.

Bandits are online right now. You can go on TikTok and see them. They make videos dancing, unmasked, showing off sophisticated weapons and ransom money they collected from kidnapping innocent citizens. They threaten the Nigerian military openly on video. How do they get the data? How do the networks not track their locations?

And what does the government do? They say they need peace talks. This week, a Nigerian general was killed on video, while the bandits mocked the nation and politicians discussed "negotiating" with them and allocating funds to these murderers. They want to pay the people who have destroyed the lives of mothers and fathers, who have killed thousands of Nigerians? Nigerians will not continue accepting such an insult. We will not negotiate with terrorists.

Reports circulating in the media indicate that the army general went into hiding and sent his location to seek help; however, moles within the military leaked this information, allowing them to find his hiding place, capture him, and murder him on video. You can watch the sad video online; you will cry for that man.

It is absolute madness. People cannot go out. Schools are closing because they are kidnapping young girls, underage girls from their classrooms and raping them, grooming them to become wives against their will.

The system is rigged against the victims. A poor man can steal a live chicken and rot in prison for ten years because an influential man put him there, yet bandits who have killed hundreds of thousands are offered "rehabilitation." They are putting these "repentant" terrorists into the military!

Now our actual soldiers are crying out in videos. They are being ambushed and killed because there are moles in the military—these "rehabilitated" bandits—who leak their locations to the terrorists. How can Nigerians trust the military when the government is integrating the very people hunting us into its ranks?

Nigeria has been bleeding for years. It got exponentially worse under President Buhari, when they started killing farmers, preventing them from farming, and people in different communities; this continues under President Tinubu, an uneducated thug who Nigeria didn't choose to be president. They know exactly what is happening. They provided the guns. Some government officials use certain bandits to rig elections, promising them rewards and providing them with weapons in return.

Let it be remembered that, on this 20th day of November, 2025, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu has been unjustly imprisoned in Nigeria because he demanded that Nigeria should be divided and called for the stop of ongoing violence. At the same time, figures such as Gumi, who has appeared in videos speaking with armed groups and discussing their demands, calling them his brothers, remain free. Nnamdi Kanu has faced a prison sentence for standing for what he saw as the rights of his people.

The justice system in Nigeria has been bought, leaving citizens feeling as though there is no protection left. Nigerians are now seeking international assistance in the hope that it could aid in the restoration of order. There are increasing accounts of kidnappings, particularly of women, within the last 24 hours (this week alone more than 50 women have been kidnapped), and families are grieving as these incidents continue to circulate across social media.

So, when you read this post, do not dare come here and share false news that this is a lie or just propaganda. Christians are dying. People are dying.

If you think because you read snippets of news that you know Nigeria, you know nothing. If you don't know what is happening, shut up. If you don't know what to say, shut up. If you don't want to support Christians or Nigerians crying for help, who are being slaughtered, shut up.

But do not use your voice to spread false information while my people are dying. American propaganda, you say? What? Use your voice to speak the truth: Christians are under attack in Nigeria. The Nigerian people need help.

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