A Fox News report prompted President Trump to call out Nigeria over the killing of Christians and then threaten military action, multiple U.S. officials said.

"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," he wrote in a post on Truth Social.

The killers, as they so often do, descended under cover of darkness, the sound of their arrival masked by falling rain. Most residents of Yelewata, a Christian farming village in central Nigeria’s Benue state,

A crowd of about 200 mourners gathered under the clear sky of Barkin Ladi in Nigeria’s Plateau State as pastor Ezekiel Dachomo officiated the mass burial

Nigerian Catholics welcomed US President Donald Trump’s decision to designate Nigeria a Country of Particular Concern over the weekend, even as Trump’s rhetoric became more bellicose on Saturday.

The 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, has expressed concern over recent comments by the United

Nigeria said on Sunday (November 2) it would welcome U.S. help in fighting Islamist insurgents as long as its territorial integrity is respected, responding to threats of military action by President Donald Trump over what he said was the ill treatment of Christians in the West African country.

Newspapers with articles reporting U.S. President Donald Trump's message to Nigeria over the treatment of Christians hang at a newspaper stand in Ojuelegba, Lagos, Nigeria November 2, 2025. REUTERS/Sodiq Adelakun/File Photo WASHINGTON (Reuters) -When President Donald Trump made a surprise threat this weekend on social media to carry out strikes in Nigeria,