Post 77th Anniversary Of The World Human Rights Declaration Report: The Situation Of Christians In Nigeria Fuelled By Jihadist Terrorism Inches A Point Of No Return
…Intersociety
· Releases fresh names of 82 Christians including four Christian clerics massacred and 147 others abducted by the military, Fulani Jihadists and allied others in 24 days of Nov 23-Dec 17, 2025
· Releases names of 26 Catholic Parishes and their Mother-Parish (St Paul Central Parish) burnt or destroyed in one year (2025) by Jihadist Fulani Militants in Benue’s Katsina-Ala Diocese alone
· Uncovers 20 Dens of Jihadist Fulani terror in forests of Communities of Ezeagu in Enugu State
· Calls for immediate dismissal and life-jailing of Adamawa’s 23 Army Brigade Commander, Brig Gen Amechi Agwu for his in-service involvement in the massacre of eleven Adamawa Christian women including an 11-Year-Old underage girl and unmasking the possibility of involvement of conscripted Boko Haram elements among the military personnel that shot and killed them
· Observes that culture of denial and incorrigibility and fundamental breaches of constitutional provisions have remained the stock-in-trade and policy direction of the Nigerian Government
· Observes that the Nigerian Government and its military still protect Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen and their patrons, elevate them to the status of “above the law” and deepen southward and middle-belt Nomadic Jihadism through Fulani Ranching Settlements
· Observes that it is long overdue for ethno-religiously imbalanced Federal Council of Ministers especially minister of State for Defence and NSA to go home and be replaced
· Fears that Former CDS (Gwabin Musa) as a successful minister of defence in Nigeria is seriously doubtful going by his immediate past antecedent as strong promoter of forceful country-wide livestock ranching settlements (sobriquet “Nomadic Jihadism”)
· Observes that there are estimated over 30,000 idle soldiers and police personnel doing nothing on South-East/South-South Roads other mass killings, abductions and enforced disappearances and open roadblock extortion and other corruption practices- who are urgently needed in the Middle-Belt, North-West and North-East to protect vulnerable Christians and Muslims from Jihadist terrorism and forest-location assembled Islamic Jihadists, numbering 24 groups
(Enugu Eastern Nigeria: Wednesday, Dec 17, 2025): The International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (https://intersociety-ng.org) is observing that in its Special Report marking the post 77th Anniversary of the World Human Rights Declaration, proclaimed since Dec 10, 1948 that the situation of Christians in Nigeria fueled by Jihadist Terrorism is inching A Point of No Return. This close to the Point-of-No-Return has also been worsened by Nigerian Government’s steadily promoted Culture of Denial-and-Incorrigibility, now making waves beyond the boundaries of the country; which have been emboldening state actors and non-state actors especially the Muslim Jihadists and their patrons and state actor aiders and abettors in their grisly and egregious Jihadist terror attacks against vulnerable Christians and Muslims; out of which Christians and their sacred places of worship, living, livelihood and learning have become the worst hit or affected. All of the above are also to say that in the 24 days of Nov 23, 2025 when we last updated our reports, to this day being Dec 17,2025, no fewer than 82 more Christians have systematically been targeted and massacred on religious ground and 147 others abducted by Muslim Jihadists-especially Jihadist Fulani Militants and allied others, joined by the Military especially soldiers of 23 Brigade in Yola, Adamawa State. The attacks are also found to have been well-coordinated and State-protected-during four Christian clerics were killed and scores of churches torched.
These latest attacks have brought the number of vulnerable Christians targeted and killed or maimed or abducted or disappeared for being Christians especially at their sacred places of worship, learning, living and livelihood to 362 deaths and 780 abductions between 110 and 120 days or from Sept 2025 to Dec 17, 2025; representing the average of four Christian deaths and seven abductions per day. These slain Christians included the undelivered and the new-born babies and others below ten years’ age-brackets. Those abducted within the period included 314 children of nursery, primary and secondary schools; out of which 165 including 12 members of their teaching staff remained in jihadists’ captivity, with some likely to have been killed. Between 800 and 850 Christians are still held by Jihadist Fulani Militants as of this Dec 2025 inside the Rijana Jihadist Fulani Forest camps in Kachia County of Kaduna; in addition to others scattered across Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Kwara, Kogi, Niger, Taraba and Kebbi States. The Rijana Christian Hostage camps with more than 30 big and small camps, was first discovered by Truth-Nigeria researchers in February 2025 and despite being surrounded by at least two major military formations, the Nigerian Army has turned blind eyes till date. There has also been an increase in the number of attacks during church services across Nigeria especially during Sunday services since October 2025.
Names Of 26 Catholic Churches Destroyed And Closed Since Late 2024 In One Mother Parish Alone In Benue: According to a compiled data exclusively obtained by Team Intersociety from the Mother-Parish of St Paul’s Central Parish in Aye-Twar (Agu-Center), Katsina-Ala in Benue State. The Mother-Parish is under the Catholic Diocese of Katsina-Ala. According to the document, “Fulani Jihadists have since late 2024 to this day of Dec 17, 2025, burned down or destroyed the Mother-Parish of St Paul Central Parish and 26 consecrated mini parishes (Catholic Outstations), forced more than 3,900 of their parishioners to flee mostly into different parishes and their settlement homes in Taraba State where dozens of them were also targeted, attacked and killed; during which 936 houses were attacked and sacked, 32 killed in few weeks and 12 forced to pay ransoms in millions of naira”. The remains of the 26 Parishes are closed down and currently under Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen’s control. The obtained names of the Mother-Parish and her 26 mini parishes or outstations are: 1. St Paul’s Central Parish (Aye-Twar), 2. St John’s (Agbami), 3. St Augustine’s (Kwazan), 4. All Saints (Akaachigh). 5. St Mathew’s (Kwazan), 6. St Thomas (Kenvangar), 7. Holy Emmanuel’s (Apete), 8. St Augustine’s (Ayina), 9. St Bernard’s (Kulayemen), 10. St Mary’s (Gberndar), 11. St Michael’s (Tsume), 12. St Anthony’s (Tor-Anyom), 13. All Saints (Zungwe), 14. St Clément’s (Atongo), 15. St Mathew’s (Hyungwa), 16. St Monica’s (B/Kingur), 17. St Philip’s (Belewa), 18. St Timothy’s (Gaji), 19. St Elizabeth’s (Anyue), 20. St Stephen’s (Tse-Yende), 21. Holy Ghost’s (Tor-Tough), 22. St Mary’s (Torjiigh), 23. St James’ (Alu), 24. St Vincent’s (Viaga), 25. St Augustine’s (Ameke), 26. St James’ (Atoga) and 27. St Michael’s (Angitso).
Names Of 82 Christians Killed By Jihadists And Soldiers In 24 Days Of Nov 23-Dec 17, 2025: Their names: 1. Francis Orkeen, 2. Ortega Msughaondo and 3. Amba Tseke (killed by Fulani Jihadists on Nov 27, 2025 in New Gboko, Takum, Taraba State), 4. Lumunga Adenger, killed by Fulani Jihadists on Nov 31 in Jimeigo, Takum, Taraba State; 5. Tyoakula Atsenga, 6. Peter Adu, 7. Godwin Vernumber, 8. Shaagee Wombo and 9. Aondo Baaki (parishioners of St Stephen’s Mini Parish of St Paul’s Mother Parish, killed by Fulani Jihadists on Dec 9, 2025 in Mbatyula/Mbelev, Katsina-Ala in Benue State); 10. Mngusuun Terdue, 11. Imghoga Oraenyi, 12, Tomuter Tulen, 13. Orteer Mnyiangban, 14. Mhenuter Orsaansega, 15. Martha Orsaanshega, 16. Tyohuna Lorbeer, 17. Orsee Mfanyi, 18. Kanyityo Terna, 19. Dooseer Iorsaa, 20. Mlumunga Tyodoo, 21. Mlumunga Iember and 22. Sesugh Torhemba (17 returning Christian IDPs ambushed and killed on Dec 10, 2025 in Tse-Ajogo and Nyanmve villages of Rafin Kada, Wukari County of Taraba State by members of another community in inter-communal conflict (Choba-Bachama)-reportedly instigated by Fulani Jihadists and their leaders for land grabbing, conquest and Islamization of their lands).
Others: 23. Precious Joshua (17 years), 24. Isaac Joshua (9 years), 25. Mary Joshua (7 years) and 26. Eve Sambo (3 years). They are four underage children heartlessly killed by Fulani Jihadists in Barkin Ladi in Plateau State on Dec 14, 2025; 27. Florence Frank, 28. Suzy Tanko, 29. Marry Talmon, 30. Mercy Kennedy, 31. Lucky Yakubu, 32. Pwamwasari Tami, 33. Mary Shikauno, 34. Destiny Gilbson, 35. Hunbokwama Nickson and two others: 36. and 37. (eleven defenceless Adamawa Christian women protesters including a child of eleven years gruesomely killed by soldiers of 23 Brigade in Yola, Adamawa State on Dec 8, 2025; during which 51 others critically injured including 23 hospitalized in Numan and 28 hospitalized in Yola). According to Masara Kim, a seasoned journalist and conflict reporter in Jos, Jihadist Fulani Militants on Dec 14, 2025, killed six Christians including a Pastor in different parts of Plateau State (they represented Nos. 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43. and 44.; on Dec 7, 2025, Jihadists killed an Assistant Pastor of Dunamis Church, Pastor Moses Wada and abducted the presiding pastor, his wife and several other members numbering over a dozen. The abduction took place along Enugu-Kogi Road. The slain pastor represented No 45 in our list of more than 70 Christian deaths since Nov 23, 2025.
The Rest: Four Christians were killed by Jihadists on Sunday, Dec 14, 2025 and scores of others numbering not less than 10 abducted; during which one member of Cherubim and Seraphim Church was killed and 20 other members abducted in Ayetoro-Kri, Kabba/Bunu County of Kogi State and in Oke-Agi and Illai in Mopamuro County of Kogi State, respectively; thereby raising the number of Christian deaths in the past 24 days to 50. Death of Venerable Edwin Achi of Kaduna Anglican Communion, abducted since Oct 28, 2025 alongside his wife and daughter and presumed death of Rev Father Bobbo Paschal, abducted since Nov 17, 2025 in Kaduna State and four other Christians killed in Jihadist Fulani captivity after Nov 23, 2025 further raised the Christian deaths since past 24 days of Nov 23-Dec 17, 2025 to 55; in addition to over four Christians killed by Jihadist Fulani Militants on Monday, Dec 15, 2025 in Kofai-Amadu in Takum County of Taraba State. With this the Christian deaths have risen to 59. A former County Councillor in Benue State, Hon Paul Mbatsaver Azahaan was on Sat Dec 13, 2025 killed in his residence by Jihadist Fulani Militants in Nzorov Ward, Guma, Benue State and as if these were not enough, not less than 12 Christians were slaughtered on Tuesday, Dec 16, 2025, five injured and three abducted when Jihadist Fulani Militants attacked artisanal miners in Ratoso Community in Fan District of Barkin Ladi County of Plateau State; thereby raising the number of Christian deaths to 72 by our statistical counting; during which, there were likelihood of additional ten Christian deaths representing the “Dark Figures”-totalling 82 Christian deaths recorded between Nov 23 and Dec 17, 2025.
List Of 147 Christians Abducted By Jihadists Between Nov 23 And Dec 17, 2025 (24 Days): 1. Abduction of 12 members of Dunamis International Gospel Centre, Anyingba in Kogi State along Enugu-Kogi Highway, 2. Abduction of 12 Christian farmers in Askira-Uba in Christian dominated area of Southern Borno State, 3. Abduction of 11 Christians on Monday, Nov 24, 2025 in Eruku, Ekiti County of Kwara State, 4. Abduction of 20 persons including four pregnant women and several children by Jihadist Fulani Bandits on Wednesday, Nov 26, 2025 in Christian dominated area of Unguwan-Kawo in Erena Ward of Shiroro County of Niger State, 5. Abduction of 18 members of Cherubim and Seraphim Church including a pastor and his wife on Sunday, Nov 30, 2025 in Ejiba Community of Kogi State, 6. Abduction of 14 passengers in Ngor-Okpala County of Imo State on Thursday, Nov 27, 2025; an area ravaged by increasing Jihadist Herdsmen attacks, 7. Abduction of 11 Christian farmers by Fulani Jihadists on Nov 29, 2025 in Ungwan Nungu in Bokana Ward of Sanga County of Southern part of Kaduna State.
Others are: 8. Abduction of 20 First ECWA Church by Jihadist Fulani Bandits on Sunday, Dec 14, 2025 in Ayetoro-Kiri in Kabba/Bunu County of Kogi State and abduction of scores of others (estimated ten) and killing of three others in Oke-Agi and Ilai, Mopamuro County of the same Kogi State, 9. Abduction of 18 Eastern bound Christian passengers who boarded a Big-Joe 18-Seater Bus, heading to the South-West; abducted on Saturday, Dec 13, 2025 along Benin-Akure Highway, near Obarenren in Ovia North East County of Edo State; and 10. Abduction of three Christian miners by Jihadist Fulani Militants on Dec 16, 2025 in Ratoso Community in Fan District of Barkin Ladi County of Plateau State.
Unmasking The 20 Dens Of Jihadist Fulani Forest Terror In Communities Of Ezeagu In Enugu: Shocking discovery of more than 20 Dens (Camps) of Jihadist Fulani Terror manned by invader-Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen in many forests belonging to Communities of Ezeagu Local Government Area of Enugu State was recently made by Team Intersociety. The Dens of Terror are also found to have been structurally divided into six layers, with each camp coordinated by a Fulani Alhaji who is also a member of the Nigerian security forces-protected Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria-MACABAN and placed in charge of a group of Ezeagu forests and their living environs-with his herds of cattle roaming freely and destroying lives, properties and livelihoods unchecked and with reckless abandon. The six-layered Jihadist Fulani structures are also centrally linked to the Ajali River and its Valley as their terror headquarters from where jihadist activities are coordinated and spread across the affected fourteen Ezeagu Communities and their villages; out of which Ezeagu Communities of Imezi-Owa, Agu-obu-Owa, Olo, Mgbagbu-Owa and Oghe are said to be worst affected.
The six-layered Jihadist Fulani dens of terror are headquartered at Agu-obu-Owa and located close to Fatimah Secondary School and divided into six, with each headed by a Fulani Muslim leader (Alhaji) and placed in charge of herds of cattle under designated Ezeagu communities and their forests. Among the six Fulani Muslim leaders (Alhajis) in charge, their head is called “Alhaji Sani” of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria (MACABAN) who is also said to be a resident of “Ama Hausa-Fulani” in the Ninth Mile part of Enugu State and has been fingered in the coordination of area’s Jihadist Fulani reign of terror since 2010. As a result, the Ajali River and its Valley, a hitherto pride of the area in aquatic environment; has religiously been violently transformed into dens of terror against many communities of Ezeagu. See the full details here: https://intersociety-ng.org/over-20-dens-of-jihadist-fulani-terror-discovered-in-communities-of-ezeagu-in-enugu-state/
Nigerian Government’s Culture Of Denial And Incorrigibility Amplifying Jihadist Terrorism: Despite sustained campaigns of denial by Nigerian Government, arising from the Government’s national and foreign policy of “Culture of Denial” and its amplifications by compromised Nigerian Christian religious leaders including “Double-Speakers”, targeted mass killing, abduction and disappearance of Christians are becoming much more difficult to be dismissed or denied; more so when “technicalities can never displace or dislodge facts on the ground”. The more the Nigerian Government denies responsibility, the more it exposes its structural involvement or culpability. The Nigerian Government is also structurally in gross constitutional breach of Section 10 of the 1999 Constitution; both in theory and in practice. Section 10 of Nigeria’s 1999 Constitution clearly and unambiguously commands and directs all executive, judicial and legislative authorities as follows: “The Government of the Federation or of a State shall not adopt any religion as a State Religion (S.10)” (being observed in gross breach).
Other Fundamental Constitutional Provisions Observed In Gross Breach By Nigeria: Section 14, subsection 3: “The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its Agencies and conduct of its affairs shall reflect the Federal Character (ethno-religious balancing) and …shall not be dominated by members of a particular ethnic or religious grouping”; Section 14 (2) (b): “The security and welfare of the People shall be the primary purpose of the Government”; Section 38: “Every Nigerian citizen shall be entitled to freedom of thought, conscience and religion”; Section 217 (3): “The composition of the officer corps and other ranks of the armed forces of the Federation shall reflect the Federal Character (ethno-religious balancing) of Nigeria”; and Section 147 (3): Any appointment to the office of the Minister of the Federation by the President under subsection 2 of this Section 147 shall be in conformity with the provisions of Section 14 (3) of this Constitution (ethno-religious balancing)”.
Flooding South-East With Northern Muslim Security Chiefs Is Gross Constitutional Breach: Below are Northern Muslim military and police officers presently in charge of ten key formations in over 95% Igbo-Christian populated States of Enugu, Imo, Abia and Anambra: 1. Air Vice Marshal Ahmed Abdullahi Shinkafi, Air Officer Commanding Ground Training Command, Enugu, 2. Brigadier Gen Ibrahim Abbas, Commander of 34 Army Brigade, Obinze, near Owerri in Imo State, 3. Air Commodore D.E. Bello, Commander of Nigerian Air Force 211 Quick Response Group Base, Owerri in Imo State, 4. Navy Commodore MA Alhassan, Commander, Nigerian Naval Base, Oguta in Imo State, 5. Mallam Aboki Danjuma, Commissioner of Police, Imo State Command, 6. CP Danladi Isah, Commissioner of Police, Abia State, 7. Brig Gen Hassan Bello, Commander, 14 Army Brigade, Ohafia in Abia State, 8. Navy Commodore BU Quadri, Commander, Nigerian Naval School of Finance, Owerre-Nta, in Abia State, 9. Col BM Yakubu, Commander, 302 Army Artillery Regiment, Onitsha in Anambra State, and 10. Navy Commander Kabir Yusuf, Commander, Ogbaru Naval Base, Ogbaru, Anambra State. These are just to mention but a few.
Nigeria’s Council Of Ministers And Others Overdue For Dissolution And Reconstitution: Having carefully followed the ethno-religious composition and activities of the present Federal Council of Ministers and key heads of other security, defence, policing and justice establishments in Nigeria since June 2023 and their failures in protecting Nigerians of all faiths, time has come for them including the minister of State for Defence and the NSA to be dissolved, freshly reconstituted and replaced with those that are ethno-religiously neutral and in no way linked, directly or indirectly with massaging or protecting jihadist terrorists and terrorism in Nigeria, especially in coordinated and systematic attacks against Christians and their places of worship, learning, living and livelihood. For instance, a situation whereby the current minister of State for Defence (Bello Matawalle) is still holding sway despite having been strongly accused in several quarters of direct or indirect links with the jihadist terror bandits clearly amounts to “allowing someone to continue as a judge in his own case despite clear partisanship and vested interests”.
Similar sentiments and biases are ripe in several quarters especially among civilian and religious worship security and safety stakeholders in Kwara and Kogi against the National Security Adviser (Mallam Nuhu Ribadu) who was recently accused of “massaging or amplifying the jihadist terror bandits’ activities in Kwara and Kogi, especially their Christian dominated areas and specifically accused of arming Miyetti Allah members (Fulani Bororos militias hired from neighbouring African countries) with AK-47 rifles and allowed to participate in a recent federal government security operation in the area coordinated through his office”.
30,000 Idle Soldiers And Police Personnel On East Roads Urgently Needed In The North: Apart from calling for immediate dissolution of Nigeria’s Council of Ministers and related others it is also our observation that there are tens of thousands (estimated at not less than 30,000) of idle soldiers and police roadblock personnel doing nothing on the South-East and the South-South Roads other mass killings, abductions and enforced disappearances and reckless, indiscriminate and unchecked engagement in open day and night roadblock bribery and related corrupt practices and associated brutalities-targeted at defenceless civilian road users and others. We hereby wish to inform and advise the Government of Nigeria that idle 30,000-plus soldiers and police personnel are urgently needed in the Middle-Belt, North-West and North-East to comb their forest and road locations to protect and rescue vulnerable Christians and Muslims from rampaging Muslim Jihadist terrorists. The Nigerian Government must also be ethno-religious sensitive and balanced by de-flooding the South-East and the South-South with senor Northern Muslim military, police and intelligence officers to man most of the key military, police and intelligence formations in the two regions. While condemning strongly and totally the current flooding of more than ten top formations in the South-East with senior Northern Muslim officers, Nigerian Government must discontinue such grossly ethno-religious biased and lopsided arrangement and ensure that such postings and their officer corps compositions are ethno-religiously balanced-more so when each of the each of their States is more than 95% Christian populated. The National policy of permanently settling members of the Fulani population including their jihadist elements in forest or communal farmland locations anywhere in the South-East and the South-South; promoted and heavily funded by Nigerian Government through “(Fulani Cow) Livestock Ranching Settlements” must be discontinued and abolished on account of the fact that “it is a State actor jihadist conquest project” covered using false pretext.
Signed:
For: International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law (InterSociety)
· Emeka Umeagbalasi
Criminologist and Researcher
Head, International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law
· Chidinma Evangeline Udegbunam, Esquire
Human Rights Lawyer/Head, Dept. of Campaign and Publicity
International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law
· Obiajunu Joy Igboeli, Esquire
Human Rights Lawyer/Head, Civil Liberties and Rule of Law Program
· Comrade Samuel Kamanyaoku
Head, Field Data Collection and Documentation Department
International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law
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