United States President Donald Trump has designated Nigeria a “country of particular concern”
He said the degree of killings of Christians in Nigeria has reached an alarming peak adding that the United States cannot continue to watch without taking actions.
His categorization came shortly after Nigeria’s Minister of Information Mohammed Idris appeared on Cable News Network defending allegations that Christians are the target of killings in Nigeria.
”Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria,” he said in his post on Truth, the microblogging App he set up after he was banned from X.
He assured of the readiness of America to save fellow Christians across the globe.
”Thousands of Christians are being killed. Radical Islamists are responsible for this mass slaughter,” Trump wrote.
According to the US president, he was placing Nigeria, Africa’s top oil producer and most populous nation, on a “Countries of Particular Concern” list of nations the US deems to have engaged in religious freedom violations.
According to the State Department’s website, the list includes China, Myanmar, North Korea, Russia, and Pakistan, among others.
Trump said he had asked US Representatives Riley Moore and Tom Cole, as well as the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, to look at the matter and report back to him.