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Nigerian police said on Monday that a swarm of armed “bandits” descended upon a girls’ boarding school in the state of Kebbi, killed one staff member, and abducted 25 of the students.

Nigerian Minister of Information Mohammed Idris reportedly declared on Thursday that the country’s advertising and marketing executives have a “crucial responsibility” to make Nigeria look good, particularly given recent global attention on the ongoing genocide of Christians in the Middle Belt region.

Multiple Nigerian newspapers reported on an incident on Wednesday in which the Nigerian military attacked peaceful protesters organizing to demand that the government act to protect civilians from genocidal jihadist attacks, which have persisted for over a decade with little government interest.

Nigerian Senator Orji Uzor Kalu of the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) conceded in remarks on Tuesday that President Donald Trump “told the truth” when he denounced a genocide of Christians in the country, asking those outraged by the American’s remarks to channel that anger into fixing the problem.

Violent attacks targeting Christian communities occur in Nigeria about eight times a day on average and the government has been “largely ineffective” at stopping them, Ryan Brown, the CEO of the Christian aid organization Open Doors, told Breitbart News.

Workers at a displaced persons camp in Benue state, Nigeria, denounced the discovery of trash disposals full of fetuses.

The Nigerian Senate on Wednesday produced a report that found $303 billion in oil revenue from the past ten years is missing, much of it attributed to oil thieves who tap into pipelines and sell their stolen crude on the black market.

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu said on Tuesday that he regarded President Donald Trump’s expression of concern for oppressed Christians as a “threat,” and that confronting violent extremists will make Nigeria “come out stronger.”

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning expressed support for the government of Nigeria on Tuesday, and claimed President Donald Trump was only interested in the slaughter of Christians as an “excuse” to interfere in Nigerian politics.

Nigerian military officials met to plan a response to President Donald Trump’s threat of military action against Islamist terrorists.

At least 17 Christians were killed in Nigeria hours after President Donald Trump designated the nation as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC) for ongoing attacks by radical Islamists, with local media reporting “fresh attacks by gunmen across communities in Plateau and Kaduna states.”

Nigerian President Bola Tinubu condemned President Donald Trump’s statements acknowledging the ongoing genocide of Christians in his country in remarks on Saturday, claiming they did not reflect “reality,” while a top adviser told local media Tinubu planned to meet Trump “in the coming days.”

President Donald Trump warned that if the Nigerian government continues to allow Christians in the country to be killed, the United States military “may very well” go into Nigeria “guns-a-blazing.”

Rap superstar Nicki Minaj praised President Donald Trump for intervening and taking the matter of the “mass slaughter” of Christians in Nigeria by radical Islamists “seriously.”

President Donald Trump has designated Nigeria as a “country of particular concern” for the ongoing mass murders of Christians by radical Islamists, directing the House Appropriations Committee “to immediately look into this matter” and stating that the United States “cannot stand by” while the slaughters occur.

The Vatican news agency Fides, in anticipation of the Catholic “World Mission Sunday” on October 19, published statistics on the world’s Catholic population revealing a boom in the number of faithful in Asia and Africa in particular.

The head of the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON), a coalition of Anglican leaders opposing the liberalization of the Anglican Church spearheaded by leadership in England, announced on Thursday they would split from Canterbury, declaring itself the true leadership of the Church.

The leadership of the Anglican Church in Nigeria issued a statement on Tuesday taking issue with the appointment of Bishop Sarah Mullaly as the first Archbishop of Canterbury, making her the first female leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

Nigerian Christians say their communities are under siege by Islamist “bandits” who are planning nothing less than genocide.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that people who are unaware of the persecution of Christians in Nigeria live in bubbles and have awful media sources but also stated that the mainstream media isn’t giving

A group of as-yet unidentified gunmen ambushed a convoy in Nigeria’s southern state of Edo on Friday, killing eight security officers and kidnapping five Chinese nationals who worked for a local cement company. Meanwhile, the notorious Islamist terrorist gang called Boko Haram went on a rampage in northeastern Nigeria, slaughtering dozens of civilians in a methodical door-to-door village massacre.

The Japanese government struggled this week to convince a public nervous about demographic decline that its “African Hometown” program is not a backdoor scheme to set up mass migration from Africa to Japan.

A horde of motorcycle-riding gunmen stormed the village of Gamdum Mallam in Nigeria’s Zamfara State on Saturday, shooting up the town and riding off with over a hundred captives, mostly women and children.

Nigerian police announced Sunday they have extradited Chinese gang leader Dai Qisheng, who was arrested on August 8 in a joint operation with Interpol.

Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) launched a crackdown on cybercriminals on August 15. The commission said on Thursday that 102 accused criminals have been deported so far, including 50 Chinese nationals.

Former Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari died in London at the age of 82 on Sunday, following what the office of current President Bola Tinubu described as a “prolonged illness.”

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) of Nigeria said on Tuesday that 6,527 people have been displaced by jihadi attacks on Christian villagers in the state of Benue, including Friday’s massacre in the town of Yelewata.

Jihadi gunmen murdered at least a hundred Christians in the Nigerian village of Yelewata, central Nigeria, on Friday night, the latest in a long string of bloody attacks on farmers by the violent Fulani herdsmen.

Bishop Wilfred Chikpa Anagbe, of the diocese of Makurdi in Nigeria, said in a Fox News interview published on Tuesday that his home village of Aondona was attacked by “terrorist jihadis” and over 20 of its residents were murdered after he testified at a U.S. congressional hearing on Christian persecution.

Nigerian Mining Minister Dele Alake announced on Monday that his government will commission two large lithium processing plants from Chinese firms this year, one of them valued at $600 million and the other at $200 million.

Nigeria has signed a major agreement with a Chinese arms manufacturer to build a munitions factory on Nigerian soil.

Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau state, Nigeria, urged local “traditional rulers” to organize vigilante militias to protect Christians after a recent string of attacks, presumed to have been committed by ethnic Fulani jihadists, killed dozens and displaced thousands.

Details of a massacre of dozens of Christians in the restive Middle Belt of Nigeria, believed to have occurred at the hands of genocidal Fulani jihadists, began surfacing over the weekend as the nation marks the holiest season in Christianity and the anniversary of one of the most abhorrent acts of Islamic terrorism in the nation’s modern history.

Fulani jihadists have murdered more than 60 Christians in a series of coordinated attacks across seven Christian communities in Nigeria as Holy Week begins.

Trump shipped the first planeload of 85 Nigerians who were in the U.S. illegally back to Nigeria as the African nation warns about “dignity.”