Insecurity: US panel points finger at Police, Army amid militias’ attacks
The US Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) has claimed that some police and army officers collude with Fulani militias in deadly attacks and mass abductions, which target religious communities across Nigeria. USCIRF has now urgedCongress to bar individuals who lobby on behalf of foreign governments that Washington had blacklisted. Those governments were blacklisted for severe religious freedom violations. This is even as US Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, revealed yesterday that President Donald Trump has ordered the Pentagon to prioritise Nigerian Christians targeted by ISIS, adding that the directive quietly led to the killing of ISIS’ second-in-command in Nigeria. “There’s a lot of things we do that the media pays attention to, and a lot of things that the president empowers the department to do on behalf of the American people, that he deserves great credit for,’’ he said. In a May 2026 report, titled “Non-state Violators of Religious Freedom in Nigeria: Fu...