From the Daily Caller News Foundation

By Wallace White

Nigeria said Sunday the country would welcome American intervention against Islamic extremist groups behind the massacre and persecution of Christians in the African nation.

Daniel Bwala, advisor to Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, told Reuters Sunday the country would welcome U.S. intervention to combat Islamic terrorists persecuting and massacring Christians within its borders, as long as Nigeria’s sovereignty was respected. President Donald Trump threatened Saturday on Truth Social to deploy U.S. forces in Nigeria if the nation did not do enough to stop Islamic terrorist organizations like Boko Haram.

“We welcome U.S. assistance as long as it recognizes our territorial integrity,” the advisor told Reuters.

Trump also threatened in his post to cut off aid to the nation in response to massacres of Christians. Open Doors, which tracks Christian persecutions worldwide, estimates that 3,100 Nigerian Christians have been killed so far in 2025, making up a large portion of the estimated 4,476 Christians murdered worldwide this year alone.

“If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria, and may very well go into that now disgraced country, “guns-a-blazing,” to completely wipe out the Islamic Terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump said on Saturday. “I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action.”

Boko Haram is the most prominent Islamic terrorist organization in the nation, being responsible for a years-long campaign of targeted attacks against Christians, especially in the northern region of the country.

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President Trump on Saturday warned that the United States military “may very well” launch an armed intervention in Nigeria if the government continues allowing the slaughter of Christians by radical Islamist groups — a stark escalation following his recent designation of the African nation as a “Country of Particular Concern.”

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In a post on Truth Social, Trump directed the Department of War to “prepare for possible action,” warning Nigerian officials that Washington’s patience had run out. “If the Nigerian Government continues to allow the killing of Christians, the U.S.A. will immediately stop all aid and assistance to Nigeria and may very well go into that now disgraced country, guns-a-blazing, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities,” Trump wrote. He added that any American strike “will be fast, vicious, and sweet, just like the terrorist thugs attack our cherished Christians.”

The warning follows Trump’s declaration Friday that “Christianity is facing an existential threat in Nigeria,” where thousands have been massacred by Islamist militants. He said the numbers were staggering — citing roughly 3,100 Christian deaths in Nigeria compared with about 4,476 worldwide — and ordered Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.) and House Appropriations Chairman Tom Cole (R-OK) to immediately investigate and report their findings. “Something must be done,” Trump wrote, calling the situation “a mass slaughter” and urging swift action.

Trump’s call to action has drawn praise from prominent voices. Rap mogul Nicki Minaj reposted Trump’s earlier remarks and said his attention to the plight of Nigerian Christians gave her a “deep sense of gratitude.” “We live in a country where we can freely worship God,” she wrote on X. “No group should ever be persecuted for practicing their religion.”

Trump’s increasingly forceful stance on Nigeria marks one of the clearest demonstrations yet of his promise to defend persecuted Christians worldwide — and to use America’s power, if necessary, to make that protection real.