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Terrorists, abduct, kill 1,402 Christians in 96 days – report
International Society for Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Intersociety, has said that terrorists operating in Nigeria have killed and abducted 1,402 Christians in 96 days, spanning from January 1, 2026, New Year’s Day, to Easter Monday, April 6, 2026.
The group, in its recent update on various attacks, said 450 people were killed between January and April 6, 2026, while 600 were abducted within the period under review.
The Chairman of Intersociety, Mr Emeka Umeagbalasi, in a statement, said that the massacre of Christians and persecution of churches (Nigerian Christian Genocide) in Nigeria has continued to widen and escalate, with state actor involvement deepening unchecked.
He said that despite tens of millions of dollars wasted since the end of October 2025 by the Government of Nigeria in international lobbying to deny and erase traces of “Nigerian Christian Genocide” and additional multimillion dollars wasted in globetrotting seeking to internationally downplay Christian Genocide,the menace has continued.
Umeagbalasi accused the government of attempting to replace attacks and killings with false narratives of “farmers-herders’ clashes brought about climate change, in which Muslims were also killed”.
The Intersociety boss stated that despite the efforts to suppress the narratives, the massacre of Christians and persecution of churches have continued and become increasingly widespread; to the extent that such state actor denials have been dwarfed by growing manifestations of gross bias and open protection of the terrorists by Nigeria’s security chiefs and recent open admissions by government-affiliated Islamic groups.
He wrote: “The ‘350 Christian deaths’ included 102 deaths recorded in the Holy Week of March 28 to Saturday, April 4, 2026; 34 deaths recorded on Easter Sunday of April 5, 2026 alone; 20 Christian deaths recorded between March 20 and March 27 and the added ‘dark figures of 16 deaths.
“It is also clarified that 180 of the 35 Christian deaths are those arising from 1,800 (10%) abducted Christians across Nigeria since Jan 2026 and were not included in our updated Report of March 19, 2026. Such jihadist captivity deaths must have arisen from physical torture, starvation, gunshot wounds, machete cuts, untreated injuries and other inhuman or degrading treatments during the affected victims’ captivity in the hands of jihadists.
“In other words, out of every ten abducted Christians, one is not coming back alive; out of every 100 abducted, ten are not returning alive; and out of every 1000 abducted, 100 will never come back.
“On Easter Sunday of April 5, 2026, alone, no fewer than 34 Christians were hacked to death, particularly in Benue (seventeen deaths) and Kaduna (fifteen deaths). According to key eyewitness accounts obtained by Intersociety, on March 28, no fewer than 13 Christians were killed and 24 injured in a Boko Haram roadside bombing along Pulka-Ngoshe Road in Southern Borno.
“On March 30, 2026, not less than 21 Christians were killed by Boko Haram Islamic insurgents in the Kautikari Christian community of Chibok County of Southern Borno. On Palm Sunday of March 29, 2026, not less than 40 Christians were slaughtered and several others injured by Fulani and Boko Haram terrorists in Angwa Rubuka, Eto Baba and nearby student residential areas, near Jos in Plateau State. US Congressman Riley Moore puts the number at “53 Christian deaths.
“In solidarity with 4,513 Gwoza and other Christian IDPs in Edo State, Intersociety was deeply excited to have interacted with the Founder of the Home for the Needy Foundation (Pastor Solomon Folorunsho), also Founder of the International Christian Centre (Church) near Benin in Edo State.
“Our excitement specifically bordered on unrivalled success stories recorded by the Centre and its pioneer Church over the years. We also took notice of years of the Nigerian Government’s persecution and harassment of the Centre and its leaders, using the country’s security and intelligence establishments; harassed and attacked for being a Christian Charity restoring hopes to the hopeless, traumatised, abandoned and persecuted Christians of Northern Nigeria extraction.
“It is great news to find that the Centre’s Home for the Needy Foundation is presently home to 4,513 IDPs, mainly those running away from Islamic Jihadist persecution in places like Southern Borno, Bauchi, Zamfara, Southern Kaduna, Kebbi, Taraba, Adamawa, Niger, Plateau, Benue, etc.
“The Centre, according to its Founder, Pastor Solomon A. Folorunsho, was founded in 1992 as a shelter for orphans, widows and vulnerable children and by late 2012, it began to receive large numbers of victims of genocide against Christians fleeing Boko Haram insurgency and related others from North-East, North-West and North-Central (Old Middle-Belt), with a large intake from Gwoza Christian IDPs of Southern Borno origin.”
The echoes of the drums rolled out to celebrate the rescue of the 44 teachers and students, kidnapped from some schools in Oyo State, after 56 days in the bush, would surely be disrupted abruptly, with the divergent echoes of a fresh abduction, this time coming from Kogi State.
Reports indicate that the gunmen, struck on Tuesday at the Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, in Dekina Local Government Area of the state, abducting four students, the school principal and a National Examinations Council (NECO) ad hoc staff member.
Authorities of the Kogi State Police Command, who immediately unleashed their operatives in hot pursuit of the abductors, said the attack occurred at about 5:25 p.m. while the students were writing their NECO examination.
Saliu Oyiza Afusat, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and spokesman of the command, said a combined team of police personnel and other security agencies has launched a search-and-rescue operation following the incident.
Informing that one of the students was actually rescued immediately, she said efforts were ongoing to secure the release of the remaining victims and apprehend the attackers, adding that Naziru Bello Kankarofi, the state Commissioner of Police, alongside the Brigade Commander and the State Security Adviser to the Governor, Commodore Jerry Omodara (Rtd), were already on the way to the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
Oil prices are expected to go down now with the announcement of Donald Trump, US President that he will no longer impose a 20 percent “safe passage” fee on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The POTUS, hinged his reversal of the decision on the intervention from some Gulf countries, who pleaded with him not to toe the line due to the massive economic impact the decision would make on the region.
Indeed, oil prices had shot up immediately Trump announced the new levy on Monday while declaring the US ‘the guardians of the Hormuz strait,’ a measure which he said was to pay for the cost of guarding the volatile area in order keep supply of oil flowing.
Reports said that Gulf allies of the US worked frantically to get Trump on the phone in time to talk him out of the idea altogether, while a flurry of appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
In response, the POTUS, posting on his Truth Social platform, wrote: “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.”
Trump, who said the investments would be “MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future,” added that the deals would see factories, plants, and equipment pour into the US at “Historic levels.”
The Gulf nations have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the US, though it remains unclear how much of that they will actually spend over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the US continues to bomb Iran in what appears to be a resumption of active conflict between both countries, despite an ongoing roadmap to end the conflict.
Reports say operatives of the Osun State Police Command, and those of the Department of State Services (DSS) had tracking the trail of Adeniyi Adeyemi, controversial Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), for weeks, before he was eventually pulled out of his hole on Tuesday.
However, the duo, were said to have pulled back after failing to track him through his mobile phones, which he had reportedly switched off for about two days, making it difficult to locate him, leaving the stage for the members of the Police Intelligence Response Team (PI-RT) led by Moses Lohor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Lohor, said to have previously served as the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Osun State, and reported to have been involved in high-profile security operations and controversies, after taken over fielded his men to pick up signals from their well-oiled signal networks.
Regarded by many Osun residents as one of the key security officers who contributed significantly to the peace and stability enjoyed in Ilesa and other parts of the state during his tenure, he was said to have relied on his contacts before his transfer out of the state, said to have raised concerns from the public about the security situation he would be leaving behind.
His exit from the state was said to be hinged on an incident in 2024, in which he allegedly shot one Iyanda Alowonle, then Chairman of Osun State Motor Transport System, in the stomach at the police station in the state prompting an order for his arrest by then Inspector General of Police (IGP).
His effort was said to have paid off when he successfully tracked down the controversial PFIPC, boss, who was seen on Tuesday evening, in a shot video on social media undergoing interrogation, and eventually handed him over to Ibrahim Gotan, Commissioner of Police in the state.
The PUNCH quoted one of the sources as saying: “The arrest (of Adeyemi) took place on Tuesday morning by the IRT squad, who immediately moved him to Abuja. After he was arrested, he was taken to Ibadan and from there to Abuja.”
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